World Snooker Championship record-breaker who's banked £5million has beauty queen Wag with 23-year age gap
JIMMY WHITE lived a wild life away from the snooker table - until being tamed by former Miss Blackpool Jade Slusarczyk.
The snooker legend - known affectionately as The Whirlwind - was famed for his
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Jimmy White is one of snooker's great personalities
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White has been dating 39-year-old Jade Slusarczyk since 2018
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Jade is a walk-on girl for Sky Sports and a former Miss Blackpool
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Six-time World Snooker finalist White credits Jade with helping him off the table
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He would go on to become a six-time World Championship finalist, infamously losing on each occasion.
The 62-year-old has reached 24 ranking finals over his illustrious career, banking almost £5million in prize money.
But White has since revealed he gambled away the majority of his fortune, as well as suffering a
Speaking to the
"That's a lump, that's retirement money, so I should be more sick with that.
"But because at the time it was going so f***ing quick you don't think do you.
"I went bankrupt through gambling."
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White admitted in his 2014 autobiography to
He told
's documentary Gods of Snooker: "Cocaine was absolutely everywhere.
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"It was like the devil's dandruff, but crack – it's evil. I tried smoking it and got completely addicted.
"I remember I had £35,000 in an account and I drained that on crack.'
White, who has five children from a previous relationship, began dating Jade - who is 23 years his junior - in 2018.
They met at a Snooker Shoot Out tournament in Jade's home town of Blackpool and hit it off.
Jade told
"I didn't even know who he was or that he was famous."
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And White credits Jade, 39, with helping him kick the habit and stay off the booze.
The snooker star told
"It was drink after drink and line after line and I'd go missing for days.
"It took 15 years to get sober and I don't miss that life at all.
"Jade's helped me because she doesn't drink.
'I've never been so happy and I'm pleased to say my life is in a good place.
"I haven't got a zillion in the bank but I have my family and Jade.
'I didn't think for a minute she'd go out with me, because of the age difference.
"It's a miracle she fancies me. But she doesn't care about the age difference, so why should I?
"She's my girlfriend and she's fit so I'm happy. She's a beautiful girl, inside and out."
Jade currently works as a walk-on girl for Sky Sports.
She is a regular at the broadcaster's darts events and showcases her adventures to her 9,000 Instagram followers.
I have to be medicated and all that and it's completely changed my life.
Jimmy White on his ADHD diagnosis
Cue Tips podcast
White recently revealed he had
White told
"I've had to work. With ADHD you think about fifteen things at once.
"So I'm now down to sort of like normal. I have to be medicated and all that and it's completely changed my life.
"When you're under pressure, looking back all these things were going through my mind and all of a sudden I'm starting to miss everything.
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"The pockets are closing up as I'm hitting them and the balls are getting like footballs.
"That for me now, looking back, if I'd known what I had I'd have been able to refocus better. That was a big thing."
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