If you’ve been watching the latest Netflix series of At Home with the Furys, you’ll have seen the family celebrating Venezuela’s engagement at her 16th birthday party.
Venezuela is the eldest daughter in the Fury household, and in a traveller family that comes with a lot of responsibility. Throughout the series you see her taking a hands-on role within the family helping with housework and childcare. Paris, Tyson Fury’s wife and Venezuela’s mum, often acknowledges that she couldn’t do it without her eldest daughter. After all, looking after seven kids is no mean feat.
There’s no waiting around
In the traveller community, things move fast for young women especially. Engagement, weddings and children usually happen in quick succession. Many get engaged in their mid to late teens, and once engaged, formal nuptials can follow as soon as four weeks later.
Living in a household rumoured to be worth between £120 and £140 million, we’re intrigued: what will life actually look like for Venezuela as she embarks on married life?
Traditional roles and the bank of Mum and Dad
Venezuela’s partner Noah is 17. If the two of them adopt traditional traveller gender roles, there may be no more bank of Mum and Dad. And if the dynamic between Tyson and Paris around money is anything to go by, that picture could look quite stark.
In series one of At Home with the Furys, one episode shows Tyson on a phone call making currency trading deals. He then pokes fun at Paris, suggesting she only knows about handbags and has no clue about the family’s finances, what’s in their accounts, what property they own, or where their money is invested. Paris pushes back, calling it sexist.
So how do women in the travelling community actually manage their finances?
While Paris may be kept in the dark about the family’s wealth, research shows that in most traveller households, it’s actually the woman who manages the day-to-day money. According to a 2024 report by National Traveller MABS, responsibility for day-to-day financial decisions is assigned more to one partner within Traveller households, generally to women.
Women are running the household budget. But here’s the critical distinction, managing the weekly shop and keeping the bills separate is very different from having visibility of, or access to, the family’s broader financial picture.
It’s not just about income. Traveller women are also significantly less likely to have access to the financial products that build long-term security. No pension. No investments. No mortgage.
Social media
We know that traditionally, women in traveller communities have managed the household budget rather than generated their own income but social media may be changing that.
A new generation of young traveller women are building personal brands, securing endorsements and earning independently in ways that simply weren’t available to their mothers.
We saw a glimpse of that in the Fury household with Paris landing her own collagen brand deal while Tyson held the fort at home, and Venezuela getting her first taste of the spotlight through a magazine shoot and interview.
It’s a small but significant shift. For a community where financial independence has historically been out of reach for women, the rise of social media as an income stream could represent something much bigger, a generation of young traveller women who, for the first time, have the tools to build financial lives of their own.
Could this be the moment the tide starts to turn?
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Featured image: Venezuela’s Instagram