- Holds the record for being the quickest player ever to be yellow-carded in a game of professional soccer. He was booked 3 seconds into the game.
- Is banned from flying on Virgin Atlantic after causing a fight on a flight to Tokyo.
- Played 384 league games and scored 33 goals in his soccer career, most of them with Wimbledon. He was sent off more than ten times.
- Is friends with actor Jason Statham, and worked with him three times: first in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998), then in Snatch (2000) and in Mean Machine (2001).
- [November 24, 2013] Receiving treatment for skin cancer.
- Despite being born in England he was capped nine times by the Wales national team (he qualified to play for Wales by way of a Welsh grandparent).
- Invited by singer Joss Stone to participate in her 3rd album "Introducing Joss Stone". He is the male voice in the album's 1st track "Change (Vinnie Jones Intro)".
- Vinnie formed a football team called the Hollywood All Stars Football Club (HASFC) in spite of the existing Hollywood United Football Club. HASFC beat United in their inaugural season and won the championship.
- Was briefly player/coach of Queens Park Rangers football club. (1998)
- Quit drinking alcohol entirely in 2012.
- Guy Ritchie offered him a role in Revolver (2005), but he turned it down for unknown reasons.
- Was originally set to play Skinner McGraw in Hero Wanted (2008) but couldn't due to filming commitments on Clive Barker's The Midnight Meat Train (2008).
- Was a student at Chancellors School, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire.
- Father, with Tanya Jones, of son Aaron Jones, born in 1991, and daughter Kayley Jones, born in 1987.
- Shares birthday with Gone in 60 Seconds (2000) co-star Robert Duvall.
- In 2002, he revealed that he is a supporter of the British Conservative Party.
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