Jade Jones

Jade Jones may refer to:

Jade Jones (athlete)

Jade Jones (born 4 January 1996) is an English wheelchair racer, competing in T54 events. Jones competed in the 2012 Summer Paralympics in the 400m, 800m and 1500m.

Life history

Jones was born in Middlesbrough, England in 1996. Born with a missing femur, Jones was invited by wheelchair athlete, Tanni Grey-Thompson and her husband (and personal coach) Ian Thompson, to try out a racing chair during a school sports day visit. Within a few weeks Jones was training under Grey-Thompson and began entering competitive sport meets in 2009. Competing in sprint racing and long distance events, Jones trained with the New Markse club. In 2011 she competed in the IPC Athletics World Championships in New Zealand. She finished 5th in T54 200m race. In 2012, she was named one of Zoo Weekly's sexiest Paralympians.

Jones recorded personal bests in the 400 m, 800 m and 1500 m in 2012, and qualified in all three events for the 2012 Summer Paralympics. Jones failed to qualify for the finals in both the 400 m and 800 m, finishing sixth and fifth respectively. In the 1500 m she qualified through finishing 5th in the preliminary heat, but failed to medal, coming last in the finals three seconds behind the winner Tatyana McFadden of the United States.

Jade Jones (singer)

Jade Jones (born 12 February 1979) is an English R&B singer turned chef. He is best known for being the lead singer of the band Damage. He was born to an English father and a Jamaican mother.

After leaving Damage, Jones joined CherryBlackStone, who appeared in Channel 4's Bo in the USA. In 2006 he participated 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. He has reportedly been putting in stints at the Lord Stanley in London’s Camden Town sister pub the Lansdowne in Primrose Hill, and he also works at Claridge's.

In 2014, Jones appeared with three of the original Damage members--Rahsaan J Bromfield, Andrez Harriott and Noel Simpson--in the second series of Big Reunion on ITV2.

Personal Life

Since 2000 he has been in a relationship with Spice Girls singer Emma Bunton. The couple became engaged on 21 January 2011. The couple have two sons: Beau Lee Jones, born on 10 August 2007, and Tate Lee Jones, born on 6 May 2011.