ACTOR · BORN 1965

Vinnie Jones

Born

5 January 1965

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1. #001

   Vinnie Jones holds the record for the fastest yellow card in professional football, having been booked three seconds into a match.

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2. #002

   He was banned from flying with Virgin Atlantic after causing a fight on a plane bound for Tokyo.

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3. #003

   Over his football career he played 384 league matches and scored 33 goals, most of them for Wimbledon, and was sent off more than ten times.

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4. #004

   Vinnie Jones is friends with actor Jason Statham and has worked with him three times: first on Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998), then Snatch (2000) and Mean Machine (2001).

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5. #005

   Vinnie Jones has been undergoing treatment for skin cancer.

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6. #006

   Vinnie Jones founded a football team called Hollywood All Stars Football Club (HASFC), despite the existing Hollywood United Football Club; HASFC beat United in its opening season and won the championship.

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7. #007

   Singer Joss Stone invited him to appear on her third album, "Introducing Joss Stone"; he is the male voice on the album's first track, "Change (Vinnie Jones Intro)".

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8. #008

   Although born in England, Vinnie Jones earned nine caps for the Wales national team, qualifying to play for Wales through a Welsh grandparent.

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9. #009

   In 2012 Vinnie Jones gave up alcohol completely.

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10. #010

    He was briefly a player and coach at the Queens Park Rangers football club.

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11. #011

    Guy Ritchie offered him a role in Revolver (2005), but he turned the offer down for unknown reasons.

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12. #012

    He was originally set to play Skinner McGraw in Hero Wanted (2008), but could not take the part because of his filming commitments on Clive Barker's The Midnight Meat Train (2008).

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13. #013

    He was a pupil at Chancellors School in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire.

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14. #014

    He shares his birthday with Robert Duvall, the lead actor of Gone in 60 Seconds (2000).

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15. #015

    In 2002 he declared himself a supporter of the British Conservative Party.

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16. #016

    In the late 1990s Vinnie Jones founded the group 007; the group's name was inspired by the James Bond series, but the group itself never achieved major mainstream success.

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