19 October 2023 , 11:05
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Tyson Fury asked wife Paris to be his girlfriend when the couple went to watch King Kong as teenagers.
Heavyweight champion Fury first crossed paths with his future wife Paris whilst the pair were both attending a wedding. Already standing at over 6'0" and sporting a beard as a 17-year-old, Paris' mum couldn't believe Fury's age when she first spoke to him. Fury and Paris hit it off - but their first date was an awkward experience.
“Our first date was in the pictures and we went to see King Kong. All I kept thinking is ‘When is he going to kiss me? Is he going to kiss me? I’ve never kissed anyone before!’ The movie went on for three hours and when King Kong climbed up the Empire State Building that’s when Tyson decided to lean in and give me a kiss," Paris said on their Netflix documentary 'At Home with the Furys'.
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“It was the most awkward and embarrassing moment of my life to date. He said ‘Are you going to go out with me? Are you going to be my girlfriend’. I said ‘Yes I will’." The couple got married just three years after their first date and have since welcomed seven children into the world, with Paris not ruling out an eighth.
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"We're on the fence whether this is going be the last one. Every time I have a baby I say no more," Paris said on Loose Women. "Then they go off to school and I get this little inkling. But seven is a lot, I'm not going to lie. It's very busy in my house. It sounds unbelievable. When I wrote my first book, people started to get to know me, that's what they all asked, they kept coming up to me or my messages in my Instagram kept saying, 'How do you do it?'"
Paris gave birth to her third son last month and they opted to name him Rico in a touching tribute to Fury's cousin Rico Burton, who was tragically murdered last year. All of Paris' sons share the same first name in Prince, as Fury believes he is a king and his sons are princes until they earn their rightful names.
Discussing the possibility of an eighth child, Paris added: "I have seven kids and none of them are named after me at all and we're on the fence whether this is the last one or not. So Tyson said you may as well get it in there while you can."