X Factor: Celebrity’s Vinnie Jones tears up as fans chant his name after he dedicates song to late wife Tanya

X FACTOR: Celebrity’s Vinnie Jones looked tearful as fans chanted his name after he dedicated his song to late wife Tanya.

The star had everyone up on their feet dancing as he sang the Blue’s Brother’s hit Everybody Needs Somebody.

He told viewers before taking to the stage that it was Tanya, who lost her battle with cancer in August, that persuaded him to go on the show.

He said he wanted to bring joy to his performance as she watched over him, and his comments left people at home in tears.

One fan said: “Vinnie Jones was the best bit of the night, so far.”

Another said on Twitter: “I loved it! It’s so lovely to see him smiling after all thes been through lately.”

One more wrote: “When they was all on the stage dancing and he was properly grinning. I broke! So nice for him to have that moment”

The Hollywood hard man, 54, got choked up as following his performance, which he dedicated to late wife Tanya.

Tanya passed away, aged 53, in July after a six-year cancer battle after being diagnosed with melanoma in 2013 and Vinnie reflected on life without his wife of 27 years.

Opening up on his wife’s final days, Vinnie previously said: “It’s a sledgehammer hitting you. I said, ‘She ain’t going in no hospice.’

“Whenever she had been in [hospital] overnight, I slept in the room with her every night…She would always say to me, ‘You will look after me Vin, won’t you?'”

And Vinnie went on to reveal how he struggled with the fact he couldn’t save her.

“That was the hardest thing in the end, because after the years, you can’t fulfil your promise That was hard to deal with.”

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