Jade Jones (born 12 February 1979) is a British R&B

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turned chef. He is best known for being the lead singer of the band

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. He was born to a Jamaican father and a British mother. After leaving Damage, Jones joined CherryBlackStone, which appeared on

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's '' Bo in the USA''. In 2006, he participated in and went on to win the Channel 4 reality show '' The Games''. Jones left CherryBlackStone in 2008 following his son's birth and became a full-time trainee chef. In 2014, Jones appeared with three of the original Damage members—Rahsaan J Bromfield, Andrez Harriott and Noel Simpson—in the second series of ''

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'' on ITV2.

Personal life

Since 1998, he has been in an on/off relationship with Spice Girls singer

Emma Bunton Emma Lee Bunton (born 21 January 1976) is an English singer, songwriter, actress, and media personality. She rose to fame in the 1990s as a member of the girl group Spice Girls, in which she was nicknamed Baby Spice. With over 100 million recor ...

. The couple became engaged on 21 January 2011. The couple have two children, born on 10 August 2007, and born on 6 May 2011. Jones and Bunton married on 13 July 2021.

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Living people Singers from London 20th-century Black British male singers British contemporary R&B singers People from Finchley Reality show winners English chefs Emma Bunton English people of Jamaican descent 1979 births {{UK-singer-stub