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Vinnie Jones: profile of the footballer turned film star
Vinnie Jones' film career has gone from strength to strength since its controversial beginnings with the 1992 video nasty, "Soccer's Hard Men", which capitalised on a famous shot of Jones grabbing the footballer Paul Gascoigne by the testicles.
The former Wimbledon midfielder won a role in Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels in 1998, winning astonished applause from the crew for the sheer brutality of the way his character bludgeoned a rival to death with a car door.
He is now much better known as a film actor than he ever was as a footballer, despite being part of the team that won the FA Cup for Wimbledon in 1988.
He made many fans with his role as the mutant Juggernaut in X-Men, The Last Stand, and is shortly to star in Age of Dragons, a fantasy film loosely based on Moby Dick, with the Captain Ahab character played by Danny Glover.
Last year, Jones received an estimated $1m to appear in Celebrity Big Brother, an experience which ended badly, with the crowd outside chanting for him to be evicted.
Jones was found guilty of assault in 1998, just as his film career began. In 2003, he was convicted of air rage, and in 2008, he was allegedly involved in a fight in a bar in South Dakota, although he was never charged. Last year he allegedly had a brawl with Tamer Hassan, a British actor who played alongside Jones in The Magic Boys, and is his team-mate in his Sunday football team in Hollywood.
Jones has been married to his wife Tanya, with whom he has a daughter, since 1994. His son Aaron Ellison-Jones, is a soldier with the Blues and Royals, the same regiment as Prince Harry.