Vinnie Jones

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Vincent Peter Jones (born 5 January 1965) is a British actor and former professional footballer who played for Wimbledon, Leeds United, Sheffield United, Chelsea, Queens Park Rangers, and Wales, particularly during his time as a midfielder. Jones, a native of Watford, Hertfordshire, England, captained the Welsh national football team after qualifying via a Welsh grandparent.

He won the 1988 FA Cup Final with Wimbledon, a club for which he played well over 200 games between 1986 and 1998. He was a member of the "Crazy Gang."

He has also played for Chelsea, Leeds United, Sheffield United, and Queens Park Rangers.

Jones scored 13 goals in the Premier League during his 184 appearances.

He was a defensive midfielder who was particularly known for his brutal style of play, earning him the nickname "hard guy" image on the track. Since his release from football, he has capitalized on his tough guy image and is now known as an actor for his fiery demeanour and physical presence, often being stereotyped into violent criminals and thugs.

Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels were among his early film debuts, as well as roles in mainstream films such as Snatch (2000), Gone in 60 Seconds (2000), and Mean Machine (2001).

In the 2006 film X-Men: Sebastian Moran's Elementary and Brick in The CW's Arrow, he played Juggernaut Juggernaut. Jones finished third in Celebrity Big Brother 2010, behind Dane Bowers and Alex Reid.

Early life

Vincent Peter Jones was born in Watford, Hertfordshire, on January 5, 1965, the son of Glenda (née Harris) and gamekeeper Peter Jones. He attended Bedmond and Abbots Langley schools and captained his school's football team. He is of partial Welsh and Irish descent.

Personal life

Jones married Tanya Terry in 1994 after she was both 12 years old and next-door neighbors in Watford. Tanya's first husband, footballer Steve Terry, had a daughter. Both boys had a son, who graduated from the British Army's Blues and Royals regiment in 2008. Jones, who had signs of skin cancer under his eye, underwent surgery in November 2013. His wife had been diagnosed with skin cancer at some time, which then spread to her brain by 2018. During her cancer death on July 6, Jones was at her bedside. During an appearance on Piers Morgan's Life Stories in September 2020, he talked about her death, and said he did not intend to remarry.

Jones penned Vinnie: The Autobiography in 1998, which was later updated and reprinted to include details about his first film appearance. He spent most of his football career in Dronfield, Derbyshire, England. He divides his time between Los Angeles and Petworth, West Sussex. He is a supporter of the Conservative Party and once described himself as "very proud of being British, very pro-the monarchy, and very conservative."

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Football career

A 19-year-old Jones, who began playing in local amateur football, was signed on semi-professional terms by Wealdstone of the Alliance Premier League in 1984. He was a young addition to the club's victory at Wembley Stadium in 1985, when it was expected to become the first club to achieve the non-league "double" in the 1984–85 season. He combined playing football with being a hod carrier on construction sites.

He spent one season on loan with Swedish club IFK Holmsund in 1986, leading the team to the Division 3 Mellersta Norrland title.

When he was signed by Wimbledon of the First Division in 1986, a 21-year-old Jones became a full-time professional footballer. Wealdstone paid him £10,000 for him. In a 1–0 victory over Manchester United on 29 November 29, he scored in only his second appearance for Wimbledon. He was a member of the Wimbledon team that lifted the FA Cup in 1988, defeating league champions Liverpool 1–0 in the final. During this season, Wimbledon cemented their reputation as a tenacious and uncompromising midfielder as well as a key member of Wimbledon's famed Crazy Gang.

Jones was moved from Wimbledon to Leeds United for £650,000 in June 1989 and appeared in just one league game as Leeds finished as champions of the Second Division, winning promotion to the First Division in 1990. Jones flourished, and under Howard Wilkinson's stewardship, he received just three yellow cards during the entire season.

Jones left Leeds United early in the 1990–91 season after losing his first-team spots to teenagers David Batty and Gary Speed. Dave Bassett, his former Wimbledon manager, signed him for Sheffield United in September 1990 for a £700,000. In the First Division, he appeared in 35 games for the Blades, scoring two goals.

Jones was then sold to Chelsea on the 30th of August 1991, a year later, for £575,000. Jones made his Chelsea debut in the 4–1 victory over Luton one day after signing. Jones scored his first goal for the club against Aston Villa on September 18, 1991. He made 52 appearances for Chelsea, scoring 7 goals and only getting three yellow cards in a row.

He was back with Wimbledon in the early stages of the 1992–93 season, when the FA Premier League had only existed for one season. He helped Wimbledon finish second in the Premier League in 1993–94. He had another good season for the club, winning the semi-finals of both the F.A. and the national championships three seasons later. Cup and the League Cup, and finished eighth in the Premier League, finishing eighth. When Wimbledon beat Arsenal 1–0 at Highbury last season, he had the winning goal.

He made his second appearance from Wimbledon in early 1998, scoring on his debut against Huddersfield Town. In late 1998, he announced his retirement from football at the age of 34.

Jones was named in the Wales international team in December 1994, qualifying under FIFA rules due to his Ruthin-born maternal grandfather's selection. Due to his eligibility through a grandparent, he had previously applied for the Republic of Ireland. In a 3–0 home loss to Bulgaria in the Euro 96 qualifiers, he made his international debut under Mike Smith for Wales on December 14, 1994, three weeks before his 30th birthday. When Smith was fired as Wales manager by Jones' former Wimbledon boss Bobby Gould a few months later, he remained a regular member of Wales' national team. In a World Cup qualifier, also at Cardiff Arms Park, the last of his nine caps came on March 29th.

Jones' international call-up was nevertheless met with consternation by some and even ridiculed by Jimmy Greaves, who said, "Well, stone me!" At home, we've seen cocaine, bribes, and Arsenal scoring two goals. But Vinnie Jones, just as you might have expected there were no surprises left in football, turns out to be a worldwide celebrity. "Italian painters are a pranker."

Jones was known for his "hard man" appearance on the field. He has been suspended 12 times throughout his career, as well as holding the record for the fastest player booking in a football match, but only three seconds for a foul foul foul on opposition player Dane Whitehouse in an FA Cup match between Chelsea and Sheffield United in 1992. "I must have been too early, too fast, too strong, or too late," he recalls in his autobiography, because, after three seconds, I could hardly have been too bloody late." Jones was caught by his testicles by secretly grasping Paul Gascoigne during a league match against Newcastle United in October 1987.

In 1992, he also appeared in the popular Soccer's Hard Men video, which featured archived footage of him and many other "hard guys" of the game, as well as tips for budding "hard guys." Jones was fined £20,000 and sentenced to six months in prison for "bringing the game into disrepute" following the film's release. Jones was branded "mosquito brain" by Wimbledon chairman Sam Hammam. Jones was unable to recover after the incident. After more than 40 points in discipline this season, he was summoned to Lancaster Gate, The Football Association's headquarters, but he was unable to attend. Jones was banned from playing football indefinitely by the FA. Jones said he had "mixed up" the date of the hearing, for which he was banned from playing and was told by Football Association officials to "grow up" after he received a four-match suspension and was told to "grow up" by Football Association officials. "The FA have given me a pat on the back." Jones said later. "I've taken violence off the terracing and onto the pitch," a sly reference to the football hooliganism issue that had dogged the English game in the 1970s and 1980s.

Jones appeared on for Carlisle United as a second-half replacement in a friendly against Irish team Shelbourne in 2001, working with friend Roddy Collins who was then manager. He revealed in a press release that he was donating his 1988 FA Cup champions medal to AFC Wimbledon supporters, wishing the team the best for the future. The medal is on display at the club's stadium. He is the current club president of Soham Town Rangers, who are non-league.

Acting career

Jones made his film debut in Guy Ritchie's crime comedy Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, in which he played Big Chris, a mob enforcer. He has since been typecast in similar roles as criminals or villains, including in Ritchie's 2000 sequel to Snatch's dapper gun-for-hire "Bullet-Tooth Tony." Jones made his way to American audiences in the 2000 film version of Gone in 60 seconds, in which he appeared as Sphinx. Despite being a major role with substantial screen time, he only had one line of dialogue because his character was a tense, tough brawler. He returned to director Dominic Sena's thriller Swordfish, in which he played one of John Travolta's henchmen.

In Mean Machine, a 2001 British remake of Burt Reynolds' film The Longest Yard, Jones played Danny Meehan. He served as a former England national football captain before being sent to jail and then taking over a group of prisoners who play against the prison guards' squad. He played a hitman from the United Kingdom in the 2004 Japanese film Survive Style 5+. In the 2004 film EuroTrip, he appeared in another football role as Mad Maynard, the director of a Manchester United football hooligan company. As the comic book villain Juggernaut Juggernaut, his next role was in the 2006 film X-Men: The Last Stand. In a spin-off, he said he would like to play Juggernaut. One of his lines in the film ("I'm the Juggernaut, bitch!") It was based on a pre-existing Internet parody. He appeared in another football film, She's the Man, as the head coach of the Illyria team the previous year. He appeared in The Condemned, a film about death row prisoners forced to fight to death on a remote island in 2007.

Jones, a housemate on the reality television show Celebrity Big Brother 7 in 2010, celebrated his 45th birthday while participating. As he entered the house and was the favourite to win, the crowd chanted "get Vinnie out" on the final night and booed him as he left the house after he finished in third place. "It's Nest in there was like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and I was Jack Nicholson," he said of his show experience.

Jones was a professional killer in the Kazakhstani film Liquidator in 2011. His appearance is an elite assassination plotted to delete the central character. Jones' character was portrayed as a mute who does not speak by the film's producers, who dealt with the Kazakh-to-English language barrier by writing Jones' character as a mute who does not speak. In the same year, Zed appeared in the film Blood Output. In 2012, he appeared in the Hungarian film The Magic Boys. In the same year, Freddie the Dog appeared in Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted. He co-starred with Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger in the action-thriller Escape Plan, which was released in 2013, and was featured alongside Danny Trejo in the 2014 horror-thriller Reaper.

Jones appeared in the third season of The Masked Singer's Australian version of The Masked Singer as "Volcano" in 2021. He was the first contestant to be disqualified.

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