Inside Tyson Fury's chaotic wedding to Paris as Venezuela, 16, gets engaged

When Tyson Fury's 16-year-old daughter Venezuela announced her engagement to boxing hopeful Noah Price, many were shocked by her nuptial news. But it's little wonder why Tyson, also known as the Gypsy King, rushed to the defence of Venezuela and her soon to be husband, as he first met Pariswhen he was only 17 and she was a mere 15 years old.

Four years later, when the boxing champ turned 21, he walked down the aisle and married 19-year-old Paris. And although their throwback pictures show them looking loved up, they've revealed that it was a very different story just a few months before their big day.

Paris previous revealed that she actually called time on their engagement as the couple failed to agree on the date of the wedding. Tyson was eager to bring forward the wedding to the summer 2008 but Paris refused.

Speaking about their fall-out in her 2021 memoir Love and Fury, she wrote: "My fiancé clearly didn’t understand the amount of planning and organisation that went into a wedding. I was beginning to realise how incredibly impulsive he was, the sort of person who lived life in the moment and liked to make decisions on the hoof."

She added: "In Tyson’s world, our big day could be rescheduled on a whim, just like one of his boxing matches. I was having none of it, though, and refused point blank to change the date. As tensions simmered between us, I soon found myself reaching breaking point. It was one conflict after another and after an ugly slanging match with him outside Mam's house, I decided to call time on the wedding and our relationship."

The mum of seven went on to say: "He thought I was joking and when I dropped the big bombshell, then he realised I was deadly serious."

Paris revealed: "I simply couldn't take any more, I told him. As far as I was concerned, we were done. Our courtship was over."

The reason behind Tyson's desire for a summer wedding was due to the fact that he had missed out on the Beijing Olympics, which gave him far more flexibility. However, Tyson soon realised the error of his ways and made his feelings known to Paris over text message while on a lads holiday in Ibiza.

In her autobiography, she admitted: "He sent me an emotionally-charged text. He told me he couldn’t believe I’d abandoned our relationship so easily, and he couldn’t bear the thought of me meeting somebody else.

"He ended the message by warning me that if I ever got married, he’d turn up to the church to halt the ceremony. I was furious. 'You creep' I said to myself as I deleted the message. Talk about having your cake and eating it. How dare you."

Luckily for Tyson, Paris' fury eased off and the two tied the knot at a Catholic church in Doncaster. However, Paris also revealed in her book that Tyson had not booked a hotel room for their wedding night.

She added that after their wedding, Tyson entered a hotel in the town centre and asked to reserve a room for the night. "I couldn’t believe what I was hearing," she said.

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