How Vinnie Jones's marriage to beloved late wife Tanya 'saved him' - after footballer-turned-actor 認める he has 設立する love again with 'fantastic' new partner

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Before Vinnie Jones 設立する love with his loyal PA Emma Ford - who he has this week 賞賛するd as a 'fantastic' partner in a touching interview - the presenter was married to beloved wife Tanya, who tragically passed away five years ago.

Ex-footballer Vinnie, who recently too returned to 事実上の／代理 as the 星／主役にする of Netflix's The Gentleman, on Thursday told the Mirror how Emma has '静めるd' him 負かす／撃墜する after years of hard drinking and 不景気?left him 'rotting inside'.

He has 認める that he will never get over the death of his wife in 2019 at their LA home に引き続いて a six-year 戦う／戦い with 肌 癌?- but?said that his new partner and happiness shows that a 'flower can grow and and bloom' from the darkest of times.

'Moving 今後s, we 会合，会う other people that we are fond of and we 落ちる in love with and 副／悪徳行為 versa,' he said.

'Maybe she's 静めるd me 負かす／撃墜する a little bit. Maybe she brings a different 視野 to it all for me.'

The pair first they met 老年の 12 - at a cricket match in their hometown of Watford - and flirted self-consciously during their teens. Both pictured in 2013

Vinnie and his late wife Tanya -who was 53 when she died - could not have been more different, which made their love story all the more 驚くべき／特命の／臨時の.

He was the former football hard-man turned film 星／主役にする, a tattoo 熱中している人 with a temper so 爆発性の he's bitten into noses, brandished shotguns - at himself and others - and has been in endless fracas on the football pitch, in 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業s and even on 航空機s.

However, Tanya was never the 反対する of his 怒らせる - and Vinnie has in fact before credited her for 'saving him'.

'I take my strength from Tanya,' he has said. 'She has given me 安定 and it is my 責任／義務 to be there for her. She's the most inc redible person. We're the perfect match and I was lucky to find her.'

The pair first they met 老年の 12 - at a cricket match in their hometown of Watford - and flirted self-consciously during their teens.

'Even when he was a tearaway lad, I knew he had a good heart,' Tanya said of Vinnie.

One night he 召集（する）d up the courage to walk her home, but nothing happened,? other than an ぎこちない tea with her mother.

And that was that, until the 中央の-Eighties, when had 分裂（する） from a former partner and was a 選び出す／独身 mother to daughter Kaley, then four.

Vinnie and his late wife Tanya -who was 53 when she died - could not have been more different, which made their love story all the more 驚くべき／特命の／臨時の. Both pictured in 2002

Before Vinnie Jones 設立する love with his loyal PA Emma Ford (left) - who he has this week 賞賛するd as a 'fantastic' partner in a touching interview - the presenter was married to beloved wife Tanya, who tragically passed away five years ago

Vinnie, 一方／合間, was 選び出す／独身 and, by chance, living just a few doors up the same road in Hemel Hempstead.

'The beginning of the 残り／休憩（する） of my life' is how Vinnie has 述べるd the moment he saw her walking up the street.

Vinnie quickly adjusted to his new 責任／義務s: taking care of Tanya and Kaley, 同様に as his son Aaron from a previous 関係.

And he was 悪名高くも 十分な of?grand gestures. He 砲撃するd Tanya with flowers and bought her ten dresses at a time. On Valentine's Day, he gave her a Peugeot 転換できる, two dozen red roses and a little 公式文書，認める telling her that she held the 重要な to his heart.

But for Tanya, it was his 予期しない 静かな 親切 that 固く結び付けるd their love, such as t he endless visits when she was 認める to hospital for gynaecological 問題／発行するs 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.

Tanya's 複雑化s first began when her heart had struggled while giving birth to her daughter at age 21.?

She was saved after 存在 given a 心臓移植, using the heart of a 14-year-old German boy. She later went on to become one of the longest-生き残るing heart 受取人s.?

Tanya's father had even 警告するd Vinnie of his daughter's 壊れやすい health and begged him to leave if he wasn't serious.

She said she 'knew' he was the one when Vinnie 選ぶd her up from hospital, carried her to her car, packed her around with pillows and flowers and then tended her for days in her big baggy thermal pyjamas and didn't even flinch when she 苦しむd a haemorrhage.

'He put me in the bath, rang the doctor, got me out of the bath, 乾燥した，日照りのd me, put something on me,' she said. 'He was so gentle, so loving and when he loves you you're the centre of his world. He puts you on a pedestal.'

Tanya's 複雑化s first began when her heart had struggled while giving birth to her daughter at age 21.? Pictured left in 2002 and 権利 in 2003

But while the couple's love might have been strong, their 25-year marriage had to 耐える far more texture than most, even aside from her relentless health problems.?

For years, Vinnie struggled with alcoholism, in 1995, bit the nose of a 新聞記者／雑誌記者 in a Dublin 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業 before taking himself off with a shotgun into the 支持を得ようと努めるd behind his and Tanya's Hertfordshire pile, ーするつもりであるing to end his own life in shame.

Two years later, he was 罪人／有罪を宣告するd of 強襲，強姦ing a 隣人 in a late-night 列／漕ぐ／騒動. He has always 持続するd that the shame of seeing Tanya's frail 直面する in the 法廷，裁判所 as he was given 140 hours' community service changed him.

'That killed me,' he 認める. 'Family stand by you, 権利 or wrong. I know Tans will love me for ever. But she always says: "You've got to 血まみれの stop this. You've got to 静める 負かす／撃墜する."'

It was just as his football career was fading that Guy Ritchie cast him as 負債 collector Big Chris in the 1998 film Lock, 在庫／株 And Two Smoking バーレル／樽s (he 寄付するd his £30,000 料金 to the Harefield Hospital where Tanya was 扱う／治療するd) and he began a new life as a Hollywood 星／主役にする.

His film career took off and soon he 設立する himself surrounded by new celebrity friends - 含むing Madonna, Jason Statham,?Brad Pitt and Elton John.

Tanya wasn't remotely 利益／興味d in money - she said she'd have been just as happy in a 会議 flat if only her heart would last another 50 years - and was adept at 穴をあけるing his 泡 and keeping his feet on the ground.

She also had no トラックで運ぶ with celebrities, and if she didn't like them would tell them, however famous.

'She and 棒 Stewart had a barney for about a year,' Vinnie said. 'I don't even know what it was about - something trivial.'

Throughout his ゆらめく-ups and 落ちる-outs, punch-ups and blow-outs, Tanya adored her 欠陥d husband.

It was just as his football career was fading that Guy Ritchie cast him as 負債 collector Big Chris in the 1998 film Lock, 在庫／株 And Two Smoking バーレル／樽s (he 寄付するd his £30,000 料金 to the Harefield Hospital where Tanya was 扱う／治療するd) and he began a new life as a Hollywood 星／主役にする

But while the couple's love might have been strong, their 25-year marriage had to 耐える far more texture than most, even aside from her relentless health problems. The couple in 2002?

'Loving him is just everything,' she said. 'I live, breathe and sleep him and that's never faded. It gets stronger all the time.'

She also 静めるd him, 保護するd him and defended him.

'When he walks through the door at night he is 簡単に father, husband and son,' she once said. 'He's not this big 堅い character like everyone thinks. He's very 攻撃を受けやすい and he has a naivety that people outside aren't aware of.

'Vin has feelings just like everyone else - he gets upset if someone says something 汚い about him in print or on the television. He's no different to anyone in that 尊敬（する）・点.'

She once 認める watching Lock, 在庫／株 And Two Smoking バーレル／樽s more than 50 times 'just to see him'.

But still the moments of madness continued. In 2003, he was 罪人／有罪を宣告するd of 強襲，強姦 and 脅すing behaviour on a flight to Tokyo after slapping a fellow 乗客 ten times, 粉砕するing his 長，率いる into a window in the first-class cabin and 叫び声をあげるing, 'I'm going to have you killed' before 脅すing cabin 乗組員.

And in 2012, in the most 損失ing 出来事/事件 of all, he was pictured kissing a girl in a nightclub in Russia - an 出来事/事件 he always 主張するd was a honey 罠（にかける）, but which nearly broke his 20-year marriage to Tanya.

'She went ******g 弾道学の,' said Vinnie. 'I had nothing to say other than: "I'm sorry."'

He kept on apologising in person, 同様に as 公然と in newspapers and in interviews for weeks. Terrified he'd lose her, he saw a psychologist, '事実上' gave up alcohol, 伸び（る）d 支配（する）／統制する of his red もやs and, 結局, they 天候d it.

But life had still more to throw at them. In 2013, Vinnie discovered a cancerous lump on his 直面する, の直前に Tanya was 診断するd with melanoma, too - hers thought by doctors to be linked to the 薬／医学 she'd been taking since her 心臓移植.

While Vinnie made a good 回復, Tanya's 乱打するd 団体／死体 had finally run out of reserves.

The couple pictured together in 2001 at the Evening 基準 Film Awards at the Savoy Hotel in London

Over 最近の months, she had barely been seen. But behind the gates of their immaculate Hollywood Hills mansion, with its 広大な 石／投石する greyhounds and shimmering pool, a new, calmer, stronger Vinnie has tried to keep things as normal as possible with 'happy Friday' barbecues for family and friends each week.

'I'm nowhere 近づく as 勇敢に立ち向かう as her,' he said. 'People call me hard and 堅い, but Tanya, now there's someone who is really 堅い.'

When she was 28, Tanya said she hoped her heart would give her another 20 years.

'I'll be 48 then,' she explained. 'So I'll have had a life.'?

Speaking to the Mirror?today, he 認める he had?設立する love again with Emma.? It is happy news for Vinnie who said in 2019:?'I will never be with anyone else'.

'You know, after four months, four years, five years, 10 years, you just keep moving 今後s, the grief is always going to be in there', the 星／主役にする of Lock, 在庫／株 and Two Smoking バーレル／樽s said.

But he 追加するd: 'It's how other things can 支配（する）／統制する it. It's how much the flower can grow and and bloom. I think, for me, grief was always 黒人／ボイコット and grey, but it doesn't have to be. It can be colours and happy memories'.

Speaking to the Mirror today, he 認める he had 設立する love again with Emma. It is happy news for Vinnie who said in 2019: 'I will never be with anyone else'. Pictured in 2019

'The beginning of the 残り／休憩（する） of my life' is how Vinnie has 述べるd the moment he saw her walking up the street. Both pictured in 1997

?Emma has worked for the former Wimbledon footballer and was often shown 存在 a 発言する／表明する of 推論する／理由 the show on?Vinnie Jones in the Country.?

One minute she was shown?helping him doing the paperwork for his new Bentley - and the next 介入するing to help has her boss managed construction 事業／計画（する）s.

But rumours of their romance began when they were seen with Vinnie's family enjoying a pub lunch just after Christmas this year.

It 示すs a new happy 一時期／支部 for Vinnie, after the 広大な／多数の／重要な 悲劇 of losing Tanya to 癌.?

In an interview in 2019, which moved him and others to 涙／ほころびs, he said: 'She was the light of my life. I will never be with anyone else. I'm a 爆撃する. She is the only one... whenever I let myself 負かす／撃墜する, or her 負かす／撃墜する, she was always the strongest, the person who I answered to.

'She wouldn't give me her blessing to 会合，会う someone else ? I just know her. I can't see it happening, I might have friends or whatever, I would be astonished if that happens.

'I think I've only got a little way to go until I'm with her, in the spectrum of the universe.'

Emma, a former PA to Mick Jones from The 衝突／不一致 who also worked as a showbiz reporter on Hollywood red carpets, had returned to the UK after years spent working and partying hard in LA.?

The new couple were brought together by the pandemic and Vinnie's farm in West Sussex - and she also became a 星／主役にする of the 文書の series about his new 田舎の life that 空気／公表するd on?発見+ last November.

Ms Ford, loved by テレビ視聴者s of?Vinnie Jones in the Country as his 患者 and charming PA with a neat blonde pixie hair 削減（する）, has also やめる drinking.?