According to his age, he still sounds fit and healthy and doesnt have any illness. I was delighted with a contract for a whole summer at Butlins for 150 a week. Before eventually turning professional at 30 in 1976 he just about held down jobs while honing skills in snooker halls, playing in tournaments and playing exhibitions and money matches. John Virgo took birth in Salford, Lancashire. But eventually we went on a date. The memorial service was overseen by Pastor Keith Brown, who read a poem for Thorne's children: 'When tomorrow comes without meI know how much you love me and you know how much I love you. He does not appear to be ailing and seems to be in People were gutted when it ended.. So snooker players had to boost their income by doing exhibitions at the holiday camps. WebJohn Virgo apologises for swearing live on air during 76-min frame - the LONGEST in World Championship history VIDEO. Thorne, who was born in Leicester on March 4, 1954, only started playing snooker at the age of 14 but within two years had been crowned national under-16 champion. He once had a bet at an airport luggage carousel. Plastic surgeon reveals the one exercise that makes you AGE FASTER - saying he tells his patients to stop Traveller shares her 'secret' hack to bag an entire row of seats on a Qantas flight: 'I can't believe this Do YOU know how much a flooded home costs to repair - and is it covered on your insurance? A famous missed blue and a long-standing battle with bankruptcy serve as ill-fitting epitaphs for a snooker player who was a mainstay in the top echelons of the game during its unprecedented peak. I wanted to win the ultimate, the World Championship, but I didnt as my career was cut short.. I was borrowing against the mortgage just to keep up the pretence that I was successful. Im not delighted but they just want to change the commentary system. Virgo has worked along with a pool and snooker table company named Liberty Games to create a web series of trick shot videos known as the Trick Shot Academy. 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Speaking to the Talking Snooker podcastearlier this season, Virgo said this years Crucible knees-up would almost certainlybe his last with the BBC set to let him go. 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However the reaction on social media was rather different, with fans and viewers queuing up to say Virgo had simply said what everyone else was thinking, that the incident was hilarious, and that the man himself was a legend. He remained a familiar figure within the sport and competed in the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing in 2007 with partner Erin Boag, being voted out in 12th place. John talks about Ronnie OSullivans decision to sit out the remainder of the snooker season and looks ahead to the Best known as an actor, Nicholas Gleaves debut radio play Sunk, stars John, playing himself. I was doing commentary for the BBC and had exhibition work but if youre not winning you are not earning as much. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. Pub puzzle depicting a 'common phrase' stumps thousands - before the Pippa Middleton's seven-month-old daughter Rose 'has been christened at her local village church in Nightmare! But he says his luckiest moment was finally getting a date with the attractive friend of a friend he had known for two decades publishing executive, Rosie Ries. He bet a guy 50 quid that his bag was going to come off first. McLord Selasi He is also a Public Health student, an exceptionally The lifeof a professional was rather different to now but the hard yards Virgo put in supplementing his income with life in front of the public stood him in very good stead for what was to follow. The snooker legend reveals the big breaks and crushing blows in his colourful life and career, including two failed marriages and a gambling addiction. A note left at the memorial for Willie Thorne. Judd Trump has risked reigniting a spat with popular BBC commentator John Virgo by claiming the veteran pundit does not do enough homework on the current crop of players or what happens outside the broadcasters three televised marquee tournaments. Former Strictly Come Dancing star Thorne was rushed to hospital with dangerously low blood pressure before being placed into an induced coma, with medical ventilation. We will miss his jokes, and he could joke could Willie. John Virgo celebrates his 76thbirthday doing the thing for which he has become more famous than his professional snooker-playing career and even hit TV showBig Break calling the action with insight and humourfrom the insideof a tightcommentary box for the BBC, this time at the WelshOpen at the International Convention Centre at the Celtic Manor Resort in Newport. ", Julie ONeill, who was looking after Thorne in Spain, said: We are planning a beautiful service. Thorne revealed the extent of his gambling issues in an interview with the Guardian in 2004, recalling an incident in which he placed a bet of 38,000 on John Parrott losing a game, because he had lost his cue. Yet alongside Tony Meo, Thorne was one of only two members of the group who failed to clinch one of his sport's major titles. His friend Julie O' Neill, who looked after Thorne during his final three months, sang the song Dancing in the Sky. An up-to-date survey of the John P. ODonnell In Memoriam Board member and master modeler of our organization has passed. Neither his ex-wife and former Miss GB Jill Saxby, who revealed last week that they spoke 'every day' before his death, or celebrity friends such as Gary Lineker and Steve Davis could be there due to Covid travel restrictions. Willie has also suffered from prostate cancer and depression . As you know that John was born in 1946, so he is currently 76 years old. This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. Brook-Leah is said to have been visiting Ronnie at his Essex home and has allegedly spent a series of romantic nights together, according to The Sun. And that made it difficult, but Willie was a soft hearted man. The world lost a champion.. He says: He was a cockney Tory and I was a northern socialist but we had a chemistry that made it work. Instead Virgo joined Thorne's twin sons Tristan and Kieran and daughter Thali at the Cristo Resucitado Ecumenical Centre in Alicante. He said: 'When we were doing Pot Black they were looking for a good looking player, and Willie beat me to it. And, to top it all, the BBC cameramen were out on strike. She is a former boarding school girl who doesnt smoke, drink or do drugs. Worst day of my life, says John, 71, in his deep Salford growl. Can you solve this trivia riddle? Willie Thorne, who died at the age of 66, was once afforded a place in Chas 'n' Dave's 'Matchroom Mob', which hit the charts with the song 'Snooker Loopy', lamenting: 'Old Willie Thorne, his hair's all gawn'. 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