What happened to Vinnie Jones? Tragic Life After Wife Tanya’s Passing

[Music] the life of Vinnie Jones has been like a movie well multiple movies at that whether it is his former storied career as a footballer or his amazing transformation to a current career in acting there are so many stories however when it comes to his personal life it is nothing short of a tragic love story learn about it here along with a short bio on his life who is Vinnie Jones Vinnie Jones is a football returned actor welcomed into this world by Peter Jones and Glenda Harris on January 5th 1965 in Watford hartfordshire England the Man's father worked as a gamekeeper he attended the dollis Junior School in M Hill North England where he was taught by Sir Derek heasman the OB awarded Headmaster with whom he grew close even after becoming well known Jones would frequently return to the school to see heasman his family moved to hartfordshire and he attended brookman's Parks Chancellor school when he was younger he began playing football which led to his playing for the bedmond football club from 1975 to 1977 Jones was a defensive midfielder in professional football from 1984 to 1999 he was a member of The Wimbledon lead United Sheffield United Chelsea and Queens Park Rangers teams he debuted to acting with Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels by Guy Richie in 1998 from where he has been known to play similar criminal or villain characters since then he has appeared in projects like gone in movies like 60 seconds Mean Machine X-Men the Last Stand the midnight meet train and TV shows like mcgyver and NCIS Los Angeles ironically one of his latest and highly popular roles was also in guy Rich's TV adaptation of the gentleman Vinnie Jones's tragic married life what happened to his wife Tanya Vinnie Jones and his former wife Tanya Terry were practically childhood swear Hearts having first met when they were only 12 years old and were also Nextdoor neighbors growing up in Watford however they only got involved romantically later in life as adults and getting married shortly after in 1994 by that time they had both had one child each already from former partners Tanya shared a daughter with footballer ex-husband Steve Terry and Jones had a son Aaron Elliston Jones born in 1991 with his ex-girlfriend mil Elliston they did not share any children of their own but were perfectly happy as a parent in their marriage that spanned around 25 years before tragedy struck in November 2013 Jones received treatment after finding signs of skin cancer below his eye at some point his wife was also diagnosed with skin cancer it was melanoma for both of them the most dangerous for form of the disease that claims thousands of lives each year they both initially made a recovery but it returned for Tanya and furthermore had progress to her brain a news they got during the Christmas Eve a couple of years later she eventually succumbed to her cancer on July 6th 2019 with Jones at her bedside every day it's there 3/4 of my day when I'm working I'm not thinking about it if I'm just drifting doing stuff or driving it's still hasn't it still not real to me it's still not real that she's not there he spoke about how he felt shortly after her loss he was still in grief even years after losing her he even spoke about it as recently as 2023 to stuff grief is a ghost it's a blanket it wraps around you and it pulls you down you don't know when it's going to happen why it happens it just happens you've got to try and get your head above water breathe in as long as you can because you know you're going to be pulled under again he shared Vinnie Jones's new girlfriend Jones had time and again said he would not see anyone else in his life again after her death she was the light of my life I will never be with anyone else he declared I'm a shelle she is the only one whenever I let myself down or her down she was always the strongest the person who I answered to he said he even repeated it to Piers Morgan's life stories back in September 2020 when he said he had no plans to remarry however lady love is not that cruel especially to Loyal lovers like Vinnie he has found love a second time as he revealed earlier this month the 59-year-old revealed that he was in a fantastic relationship and that his new partner is Emma Ford Emma or rather Blondie as he affectionately calls her is a former TV rep Porter she was also a DJ and an event manager he credited Emma for teaching him that flower can grow and and Bloom moving forwards we meet other people that we are fond of and we fall in love with and vice versa maybe she's calmed me down a little bit maybe she brings a different perspective to it all for me he told the mirror you know after 4 months for years 5 years 10 years you just keep moving forwards the grief is always going to be in there the gentleman star added it's how other things can control it it's how much the flower can grow and un Bloom I think for me grief was always black and gray but it doesn't have to be it can be colors and happy memories the couple became close during the pandemic when Jones decided to buy a West Sussex farm for a documentary series on Discovery plus that she was also a part of

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Published: Fri Apr 26 2024