Jade Jones (born 12 February 1979) is a British
R&B singer
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turned
chef. He is best known for being the lead singer of the band
Damage
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. He was born to a Jamaican father and a British mother.
After leaving Damage, Jones joined CherryBlackStone, which appeared on
Channel 4
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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 ''
The Big Reunion
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'' on ITV2.
Personal life
Since 1998, he has been in an on/off relationship with
Spice Girls singer
Emma Bunton
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. 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.
References
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
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