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VINNIE TACKLES LIFE AFTER FILM STARDOM

Wednesday April 30,2008


HE was the toast of Tinseltown, then the phone stopped ringing. Now, as Vinnie Jones stares forlornly at his dusty hotline to Hollywood, the footballer-turned-actor has had time to philosophise about the fleeting and fickle nature of stardom.


“They don’t give a **** about you,” rants the star of Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels.

“While you’re earning money for them, you’re family.

"But as soon as the gig is over and they’ve got their money in the bank it’s basically like, ‘Who are you?’”