The breakout star of Netflix’s At Home With The Furys is Paris, who simultaneously looks after six children and her erratic husband
Sometimes you consume something which feels like it is chipping points off your IQ in real time. Try binging all nine episodes of Netflix’s At Home With The Furys. “What’s it like being the daughter of the Gypsy King, the heavyweight champion of the world?” Tyson Fury asks eldest daughter Venezuela expectantly at one point. “S’alright,” she replies, as is her right as a teenager. On and on it blathers at this standard for a shade over five hours.
We are invited to explore the extended Fury universe, dad John who in a pre-fight prayer uses the phrase “it’s a sport at the end of the day,” which you doubt is something the man upstairs hears frequently from his flock. Then brother Tommy plus partner Molly-Mae Hague, who bring the levels of wit you would expect from a couple who met on Love Island.
More interesting are wife Paris and children Venezuela, Prince, Tyson Jr, Valencia, Adonis, Athena, a list of names which starts silly, sobers up slightly, then loses discipline completely by the end.
Tough issues are predictably swerved. No mention of Fury’s links to alleged organised crime figurehead Daniel Kinahan or once calling rivals Tony Bellew and David Price “gay lovers”. Fury has previously addressed his alleged dealings with Kinahan by saying US sanctions against the suspected gangster are “nowt to do with me”.