Tommy Fury is stealing the show on Love Island 2019.<\/p>\n
The 20-year-old entered the ITV2 dating show as season 5’s alpha male and the one who all of the others\u00a0feared, given his professional boxing background.<\/p>\n
Day 1 in the villa even saw Curtis Pritchard remark: “You’re Tyson Fury’s brother aren’t you… f**in hell”.<\/p>\n
However, as we reach the mid-way point of the season, Tommy has become the series softie and one of the most beloved characters on the show following his loyalties to Molly-Mae Hague during the testing Casa Amor episodes.<\/p>\n
Here’s everything you need to know about our dear Tommy including his parents, family and gypsy background.<\/p>\n
Tommy is a professional boxer from Manchester who has been in the ring since the age of 12.<\/p>\n
While many boxers spend years in the amateur ranks, Tommy was fast-tracked onto the professional scene after just 12 bouts.<\/p>\n
The 20-year-old is signed to Frank Warren, the biggest name in boxing, and had two professional fights prior to entering the Love Island villa.<\/p>\n
He won both, although still has a very long way to go in the sport considering both of his opponents were considered ‘easy wins’. On the Frank Warren website<\/span><\/a>, Tommy says:<\/p>\n I want to be World Champion, I think if you\u2019re turning pro that has to be what you are aiming to achieve.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Tommy comes from a long line of boxing royalty.<\/p>\n He is the youngest of a five-strong Fury family, which includes former unified World Heavyweight Champion Tyson Fury, 30, who is a household name in the sport.<\/p>\n However, Tommy and Tyson do not share the same mother. The family all have different mothers, with gypsy John Fury the dad.<\/p>\n Gypsy John was a professional boxer in the 1980s and 1990s and was equally as well-rehearsed in bare-knuckle fighting.<\/p>\n On top of this, Tyson and Tommy’s cousin, Hughie Fury, 24, is a current British heavyweight boxer with 22 wins from 24 fights.<\/p>\n Tommy could be considered a gypsy\u00a0due to his heritage, with both his dad and four brothers all proud of their traveller background.<\/p>\n Tyson Fury’s boxing nickname is ‘The gypsy King’ while his dad was known as ‘Gypsy John’.<\/p>\n That said, Tommy has never spoken out about his gypsy and traveller heritage with his roots appearing to pay less of a significance in comparison to his close family.<\/p>\n Love Island<\/a> <\/span>airs every night on ITV2<\/span><\/a> at 9 pm.<\/p>\n The Saturday show is a recap episode highlighting the week while the rest of the weekly episodes are all brand new.<\/p>\n All episodes are available on catch-up via the official ITV media player, ITVHub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Is Tommy Fury a gypsy? Behind his family, famous brother and parents!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249734239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1358],"tags":[1399,1383,2015],"class_list":["post-10591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-itv","tag-love-island","tag-tommy-fury"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/realityshrine\/2019\/07\/02\/is-tommy-fury-a-gypsy-behind-his-family-famous-brother-and-parents\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Is Tommy Fury a gypsy? Behind his family, famous brother and parents!","url":"http:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2019\/07\/02\/is-tommy-fury-a-gypsy-behind-his-family-famous-brother-and-parents\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2019\/07\/02\/is-tommy-fury-a-gypsy-behind-his-family-famous-brother-and-parents\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"News","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Liam Curtis"}],"creator":["Liam Curtis"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Reality Shrine","logo":"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-mX3_1x3z.png"},"keywords":["itv","love island","tommy fury"],"dateCreated":"2019-07-02T10:37:59Z","datePublished":"2019-07-02T10:37:59Z","dateModified":"2019-07-02T10:37:59Z"},"rendered":"\n
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