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Vinnie Jones reveals new girlfriend Emma Ford 'promised his late wife Tanya she would look after him' as star insists she wouldn't want him to be alone
The footballer-turned-Hollywood hard man, 59, married wife Tanya in 1994 but she was tragically diagnosed with skin cancer in 2013, passing away six years later.
But for Tanya, it was his unexpected quiet kindness that cemented their love, such as the endless visits when she was admitted to hospital for gynaecological issues and the fact that he didn't blanch when she told him her health problems meant they'd never be able to have children together. For years, Vinnie struggled with alcoholism, in 1995, bit the nose of a journalist in a Dublin bar before taking himself off with a shotgun into the woods behind his and Tanya's Hertfordshire pile, intending to end his own life in shame. Emma, loved by viewers of Vinnie Jones in the Country as his patient and charming PA with a neat blonde pixie hair cut, has also quit drinking.
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