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Vinnie Jones: 'I have a big gay fanbase'
Published Thursday, Apr 29 2010, 19:59 BST | By Oli Simpson
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The footballer-turned-Hollywood hardman said that he has consistently failed to attract a female fanbase because he is "too big and too ugly".
However, the 45-year-old revealed that he was shocked to discover that he had unknowingly bagged a gay following after appearing as muscular mutant The Juggernaut in 2006's X-Men: The Last Stand.
He told WENN: "I've got a big gay following. I was very popular in West Hollywood when I was shooting X-Men with all those leather straps. We had a producer who used to call me The Brute and I'd play up to it by grabbing him. I get gay fan mail too.
"It makes a change to the years when I was a midfielder for Wimbledon [football club]. Our groupies had builders' bums."
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