BOXER Tyson Fury has started wearing fancy dress outfits in a bizarre attempt to avoid attention.
The Gypsy King was spotted in his home town of Morcambe, Lancs, dressed as a Harry Enfield style Scouser complete with huge curly wig and dark glasses.
But if he was trying not to attract attention to himself then the odd outfit didn’t work as people instantly recognised the troubled star.
One passer-by said: “He just came wandering over to the children’s play area and I looked because I thought, ‘you look weird mate. What are you doing in a children’s playground?’ You know, when somebody just gives you the creeps?
“Then I realised and I thought, ‘Oh my God, it’s Tyson Fury in a stupid wig!
“He was on his own and just sat there for about 20 minutes watching the kids play and looking out to sea.
“He just looked like he had lost the plot to me. It was strange. He looked like a bad Ronald McDonald!
“And at one point his wig nearly fell off. I’ve seen him a few times wandering around but the wig is a new one on me. He seems to be trying to disguise himself but there was a Team Tyson logo on the back of his jacket!”
Last month British boxing chiefs suspended Fury’s boxing licence after he admitted he had “done lots of cocaine”.
The undefeated fighter, who is being treated for mental health issues, relinquished his WBA Super and WBO world titles before his licence was suspended and is due to appeal the decision next month.
He went on to film himself singing Because I Got High, about a man whose life is thrown upside down by drug use, and then posted the footage on social media.
Fury, 28, tagged promoters Eddie Hearn and Frank Warren in the tweet - now deleted - raising more questions about his erratic behaviour.
Meanwhile, his brother Shane Fury, 25, has been told to stay out of nightclubs by a judge after a city centre scrap landed him in the dock.
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Shane Fury, 25, of Styal, Cheshire, and his cousin Joseph Fury, of Hollybank, Warrington, were at the Revolution Bar in Deansgate Locks, Manchester, when brawling kicked off.
The pair did not throw any punches but were said to have encouraged others and “raised the temperature” in the venue by pushing and shoving and rowing with doormen before being turfed out.
At his Manchester Crown Court sentencing hearing, Shane Fury said he was often “targeted” by others because of his physical size and family connections.
The court heard Shane Fury works seasonally as an airport car parking assistant and part-time with the family landscaping business.
Shane and Joseph were each sentenced to 40 hours unpaid work and ordered to pay £100 costs.
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