John Fashanu Biography
John Fashanu is an English television presenter and former professional football player. He then moved into television presenting, co-hosting the British television show Gladiators in the 1990s, and managing his own Sunday league football team Fash FC, which aired on Bravo from 2003 to 2004.
Howold is John Fashanu? – Age
John Fashanu Family – Education
Fashanu was born in Kensington, London, the son of Pearl Gopal, a British Guiana nurse, and Patrick Fashanu, a Nigerian barrister living in the UK. When his parents separated, he and his older brother Justin were placed in a Barnardo’s care home. When he was five years old, he and his brother were fostered by Alf and Betty Jackson and raised in Shropham, near Attleborough, Norfolk.
John Fashanu Wife – Children
Fashanu has two daughters, Alana and Amal, and two boys, Amir and Akio. As per Amal, his daughter, in a documentary on football culture, Fashanu has tied the knot three times. At the age of 18, he got married to his first wife, who was Spanish. When Amal was two years old, the marriage ended.
John Fashanu Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $20 million.
John Fashanu Injury
On August 4, 1994, shortly before the start of the 1994-95 season, Fashanu was sold to Aston Villa for £1.35 million. However, injury limited him to only 13 games and three goals for Villa, who nearly avoided relegation that season. He scored in his Villa debut, a 2-2 draw at Everton on the first day of the Premier League season, and added two more in successive games against Queens Park Rangers and Nottingham Forest in January.
Fashanu’s final game occurred on February 4, 1995, away to Manchester United in a Premiership fixture that they lost 1-0. In a tackle with Ryan Giggs, he shattered his knee ligaments and was stretchered off. Fashanu retired at the end of the season as a result of his injuries.
John Fashanu House
He purchased a new spectacular mansion in London’s posh west zone, owing to a street beggar and the former footballer’s astute business acumen.The £1.25 million two-bedroom flat in Knightsbridge was every millionaire’s dream, so it’s no surprise that it sold in three days.In addition to Fashanu’s property, 30 others were sold for a total of £40 million during the less than two-hour hot sale.
With prices ranging from half a million pounds sterling to £3 million, the rebuilt old hotel, erected over a century ago, was, remarkably, the Knightsbridge Crown Court for three decades. Even property analysts regard the massive sale as unique, with over 1000 wealthy people competing for the 31 available units, which may have cost more at auction.
John Fashanu Career
Fashanu’s footballing vocation started at Norwich City in 1979, and he turned proficient two years after the fact – similarly as his sibling Justin was moved to Nottingham Backwoods from the consigned Carrow Street club.
Norwich were elevated straight back to the Main Division in 1981-82, however Fashanu oversaw only five association appearances and scored once. He oversaw two appearances in the 1982-83 First Division crusade – which would be his keep going for the club. He was never a normal player at Carrow Street.
He had a short credit spell with Gem Royal residence from Norwich. He likewise played in the English slow time of year in New Zealand with Miramar Officers, and showed up in the last of what might be compared to the FA Cup, the Chatham Cup (he stays the main player to have played in the last of both the English and New Zealand significant cup rivalries).
Having neglected to win a normal spot in Norwich’s most memorable group, he joined Lincoln City on a free exchange on 23 September 1983, when they were in the Third Division. He scored seven objectives from 26 association games that season, and oversaw four from 10 association games the accompanying effort before his £55,000 move to Third Division advancement challengers Millwall on 30 November 1984.
In his most memorable season at The Lair Fashanu scored four objectives in 25 games assisting the Lions with arriving at the FA Cup quarter-finals (where they lost at Luton Town in a game defaced by fans who attacked the pitch) and secure advancement to the Subsequent Division. He oversaw eight objectives from 25 games in 1985-86, preceding passing on to join Wimbledon towards the finish of the Subsequent Division season.
He introduced the UK version of Combatants close by Ulrika Jonsson during the 1990s. In 2003, he came next in the second series of I’m a VIP… Get Me out of Here!. Sometime thereafter he introduced Fash’s Football Challenge, an unscripted tv show that followed Fashanu dealing with a novice football crew. Likewise in 2003, he fronted a six-section series for ITV1 in view of the American configuration Man versus Monster; nonetheless, following fights from basic entitlements gatherings, the series was never communicated. He likewise delivered a video “Spotlight on Wellness with Fash”. He is presently host of Arrangement or No Arrangement Nigeria, broadcasting on M-Net Africa.
Since retirement Fashanu has likewise kept up with his donning associations, becoming associated with the Nigeria Football Affiliation, and as executive of Welsh football crew Barry Town for one year, abandoning this post in 2003.
In 2000, he likewise gathered, all with an examiner, a report on debasement in Nigeria during the 1980s and 1990s that came to be known as the Fashanu Report. In 2003, he turned into the supervisor of his own Sunday association football crew Fash FC as a feature of a TV unscripted TV drama.
In September 2005 Wimbledon Old Players’ Affiliation was sent off. John is engaged with the Wimbledon Old Players’ Affiliation, an association set up by the Wimbledon Autonomous Allies Affiliation. He said: “It will be perfect to be back as a component of the Wimbledon family. As an ex-Wimbledon player, I have a lot of familiarity with the heroics of any semblance of Roy Regulation and Dickie Fellow in the past times, as well as what the new young men have been doing at AFC Wimbledon”.
In 2007, The Times named him 22nd out of the 50 most obviously awful footballers to have played in the Chief Association. In August 2009, Fashanu, who in 2000 blamed Sway Minton and Ibrahim Babangida for taking cash from Nigeria, apologized. Minton said that Fashanu was given misleading data by the Congregation of Scientology to go after him.
In January 2023, Fashanu was a competitor on the fifteenth series of Moving on Ice. He was matched with Alexandra Schauman and was first to be killed.