Netflix fly on wall doc with international sports superstar so great it gets second season before it’s even aired
AFTER his victories in the ring, boxer Tyson Fury has fulfilled his next great ambition – to have a Netflix documentary made about him.
The result is the Gypsy King’s fly-on-the-wall show At Home With The Furys, which is available to stream later this month.
But I can reveal the streaming giant’s bosses are so impressed they have ordered a second season before the first has even dropped.
A TV insider said: “They’re so confident it will be a hit with audiences that they want more and filming is due to start this autumn.
“Which will be great news for fans of Tyson, as well as those being introduced to the career and home life of the boxer for the first time.
“Netflix are sure the show will have everyone hooked and were quick to snap up the leading man up before his diary became too full.”
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Although Netflix denied it at the time, I revealed last May that Tyson was making the first documentary.
Last year, Tyson said: “I want to retire on top, unbeaten heavyweight champion of the world. I want to do a Netflix documentary, a Hollywood movie and be a good husband, father and son.”
He confirmed my story was true in June and last August the streaming giant finally did the same.
The second series, which could drop next year, is expected to pivot around Tyson’s upcoming, high-profile fight with Francis Ngannou in October.
The first season covers the boxer’s heritage as member of the traveller community, health issues as well as his stellar career in the ring.
His wife, Paris features along with their six kids, aged 13 to two. So does his brother, fellow boxer and Love Islander Tommy Fury, who has a six-month-old daughter with Molly-Mae Hague, whom he met on the ITV2 show.
With such a jam-packed life, I suspect three more series will have to be made to cover it all.
STRICTLY’s Graziano Di Prima is heading on a solo tour. He’ll perform in a new show Believe – My Life On Stage. He said: “Believe is a show about the passion and energy of Latin and ballroom and how it changed my life.”
Trots of trouble for Olly
HIS fans may find him sexy but Olly Murs didn’t sound quite so seductive to Gary Barlow when he was using a toilet cubicle next to him.
On tonight’s Shopping With Keith Lemon on ITV2, the Troublemaker singer recalls the embarrassment when the Take That frontman bore the brunt of Olly’s dicky tummy.
He said: “I’d had a curry the night before. I didn’t realise he was next door, in the cubicle, and the whole world fell out of me. When I opened the door he was washing his hands.” Olly also tells how the desire to have kids motivated him to get fit and diet as he approaches his 40th birthday next May.
He tells Keith: “I have lost a bit of timber. There was a little more of me back in the day.”
After those killer curries, I’m not surprised.
Fred an ultimate critic
PLANNING a wedding is hard enough without being judged by a celebrity panel.
But next week, eight planners will compete to impress judges Fred Sirieix, Sara Davies and Raj Somaiya in the Ultimate Wedding Planner series.
Sara fr,om Dragons’ Den, revealed that First Dates’ Fred will be the toughest to wow.
She said: “Fred kept saying the planners had to learn.
“He’d point something out that could go wrong, but he wouldn’t labour the point too much and then, at the weddings, I saw said thing unfolding and I’d have Fred on my shoulder going, ‘I told you that wouldn’t work’. The show has a lot of drama.”
The series airs on BBC Two at 9pm next Tuesday.
GEORGIA TO COPY STACEY
LOVE Island’s Georgia Harrison is keen to follow Stacey Dooley’s lead and make documentaries.
She already has some experience after working with the Ministry of Justice on a special film, after she helped send ex Stephen Bear to jail – after he published an explicit tape of her.
She told the Difficult Women podcast: “At first it was very daunting but it was an opportunity to make a change, I wanted to amend the law.
“I’d love to do docus on things that are not so personal. Stacey looks into different parts of society.
“She is the sort of person who will do anything and I am the same.”
Georgia, who was awarded a record £207,000, added: “It’s a moral victory and it sets a precedent.
When I think about that money it does not compare to my reputation.”
Good on you, Georgia.
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