Marco Fu Wife Shirley Fu And Family Life In Hong Kong
Marco Fu wife Shirley Fu is the childhood friend of the snooker player. Marco has been married to Shirley for 11 years.
Though they were friends from a young age, the love didn’t blossom until 2008, when they first started dating. Three years later, they tied the knot. And 11 years into their marriage, Marco and Shirley have been parents twice to two cute girls.
Nicknamed Cue-Ma-Fu, Marco developed a passion for snooker at nine after his father introduced him to the game while they lived in Vancouver, Canada.
Last year his match against Ronnie O’Sullivan drew a world-record crowd of 9000 at the Hong Kong Coliseum. 2022 also marked the year for the comeback of the 45-year-old after two years of absence.
Marco Fu Spouse Shirley Fu
Marco Fu wife Shirley Fu tied the knot with the snooker player in 2011.
But the two Hong Kong natives go several years back before they exchanged their vows at Sha Tin Racecourse in the presence of their family and friends on May 30, 2011. Marco and Shirley have known each other since their awkward teenage years.
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In an interview with South China Morning Post in 2011, Marco revealed he and Shirley had been friends since their youth, but it wasn’t love at first sight. The snooker player said he only developed feelings for Shirley years later when he had already become a household name in his country.
The couple dated for three years prior to their marriage, with Marco confessing his feelings for Shirley in 2008, the year he won his first ranking title in the Grand Prix.
According to IMDb, Shirley has a Master’s degree in supply chain logistics and for most of her marriage with Marco has tried to remain away from the public limelight.
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Previously, in his interview, Marco talked about how supportive Shirley had been about his playing career. The doting husband is always seen posting sweet tributes to his better half on their anniversary and Mother’s Day.
Shirley is available on Instagram with the username @sky.chan.374549 and is seen regularly posting photos with her hubby and their kids. If there is any other sport that Marco and Shirly are drawn to other than snooker, then that is tennis.
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In their free time, Mr and Mrs Fu are seen taking to the tennis court and were previously seen attending Wimbledon with their daughters.
If Shirley makes time to attend her husband’s games then she also makes time to attend concerts of several bands with her two daughters, with the 12-member boy band, Mirror, being the favourite of the Fu family.
Marco Fu And Shirley Fu Share Two Daughters
Marco Fu and Shirly Fu are parents to two daughters Alicia Belle and Amelia Lara. Their princesses are seen regularly on their social media handles.
Marco is a doting father to Alicia Belle, age 10, and Amelia Lara, age 7. The two girls were recently featured with their famous dad in an advertisement targeted at the public to utilize their imagination to describe their future life and city.
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Alicia Belle Fu, age 10, was born on December 22, 2012. The couple’s first child was born in London when he arrived in the city with Shirley to participate in the 2012 UK Championship.
In 2021, Shirley posted a video of Alicia skillfully playing the violin as she played a tune of one of her favorite songs from the boy band Mirror. Just a few days before her 10th birthday, Alicia went on her first camping trip with her parents and her little sister.
Amelia Lara
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Amelia Lara, age 7, was born on July 21, 2015. In a video posted by Marco on his Instagram handle on June 11, 2021, Amelia was seen sitting on her father’s back as he played snooker.
Many of Marco’s fans took to the comment section, as they said it looked like the player was getting weight training while making his shots. In October 2022, Amelia walked the red carpet for the premiere of the movie Warriors of Future with her dad and her sister Alicia.
For his daughter’s seventh birthday, Marco decided to make it as memorable as possible as the Fu family took a trip to Disney Explorers Lodge Resort Hotel. It was followed by a concert of Mirror that happened a few days after Amelia’s birthday on July 25.
Maro Fu Family
Maro Fu family shifted to Hong Kong in 1996 after staying in Vancouver for six years.
The snooker player immigrated to Vancouver in 1990 due to his father’s job. He returned to his native land in 1996 and decided to continue his snooker career in Hong Kong.
Marco didn’t come from a family with a background in the cue sport, but that doesn’t mean the 45-year-old lacked support from his parents growing up playing snooker.
Marco Fu Parents
Marcu Fu was born to parents Wai-Tai Fu and Pik-Ling Chan on February 8, 1978, as an only child.
The three shifted to Vancouver, Canada, after Wai-Tai had to travel 6500 miles due to work commitments.
His dad worked at the Hang Seng Bank and was the one to introduce him to snooker at the age of nine. Wai, with his better half, returned to Hong Kong solely to encourage his son’s budding snooker career.
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For two decades, the couple saw their child dominate the sport and become one of the most famous personalities in their homeland. Nowadays, the retired couple is seen on their son’s and daughter-in-law’s social media pages spending quality time with their granddaughters.
Only last night, Wai and Pik were seen in the pictures posted by Shirley on her Instagram handle as they celebrated the Chinese New Year with their son and their granddaughters.
