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Susan Knox

Tyson Fury's wife Paris bombarded with vile abuse since joining the Loose Women panel

Tyson Fury 's beloved wife Paris has been bombarded with vile abuse ever since she joined the Loose Women panel.

The mother-of-five appeared on the ITV show as a guest a number of times before she was confirmed as a regular panellist last year.

The 32-year-old star has proved to be a huge hit with both ITV bosses and Loose Women viewers - but that doesn't mean she's escaped racist keyboard warriors on social media.

Paris has revealed that since being made a permanent face on the Loose Women panel, she's been subjected to vile abuse.

She also admitted that the majority of the trolls have targeted her about the her traveller background.

Paris says she has suffered vile abuse since joining the panel (ITV)

Thankfully, the abuse hasn't affected the mum-of-five as she's chosen to ignore people's ignorance when it comes to her heritage.

"If a stranger from cyberspace tells me that dirty gyppos shouldn't be on television, it's in one ear, out the other," Paris penned in her new book, Love and Fury.

Despite the online abuse, Paris proved to be a massive hit when she first joined Loose Women.

At the time, an insider told The Mirror that ITV bosses were highly impressed with her - and her personality and nature appealed to loyal Loose Women viewers.

Paris proved to be a massive hit when she first joined Loose Women (ITV)

"She really impressed bosses and viewers alike," the TV insider told.

“They loved how she showed she’s a very strong woman behind one of the strongest men in the world.

"She’s a mum, so she’s really relatable. She was completely unflustered when her son gatecrashed her interview last time she was on."

Paris' trolling confession comes after she recently revealed that she was once refused entry to a cinema for being a gypsy - but insists that she is not offended by the term.

The wife of heavyweight boxing champion Tyson said she was subject to prejudice as a child for 'being a traveller' and was even barred from entering certain venues.

Paris, 32, told Martin Lewis about being 'comfortable' with being called a gypsy, as she revealed she was prevented from entering a cinema as a child due to her gypsy heritage.

Paris said she was not bothered by the incident and is not offended by the term - despite it sometimes being used as 'an insult'.

"Gypsy is a race - it's a race of people - so it's not an insult in any way," she insisted.

"But the problem is, for hundreds of years, there's been that real derogatory term that if you're a gypsy, you're a problem, you're an outcast.

"That has been lingering on to this day, and I've suffered racial terms, I've faced those problems. Even as a kid being refused entry to a cinema."

Paris added the term 'should never be an insult' and people should not be afraid to use it correctly.

Paris and Tyson have been married since 2008 (parisfury1/Instagram)

She said: "It's not an insult and for people who find it hard to say, 'You're a gypsy', it should never be an insult and never be a hard word to use."

Paris first met Tyson Paris at a wedding of mutual friends when she was just 15.

Much like her famous husband, who grew up in a gypsy family in Wythenshawe, Manchester, she was also raised in a traditional traveller family in Doncaster, South Yorkshire.

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