Jimmy White's great fortune now, young TV presenter friend and “life-changing” health diagnosis

The Snooker legend is in action this week at the World Seniors World Cup

The Snooker legend Jimmy White is back in action on Thursday afternoon when he starts his world championship campaign in the world in Crucible Theater.

After the World Snooker Championship has been completed with Zhao Xintong's first world championship title, it is time that the more older characters in Sheffield fight fame. Only a few are more experienced than the 63-year-old White, who is four times winner of the senior tournament and triumphs in three of the last six competition years.

His success at the senior level takes place after he suffered repeated heartache in his earlier career and reached the six-snooker championship final, but took second place on every occasion.

With ten ranking event -titles -including the 1984 Masters and the British Championship from 1992 -“The Whirlwind” is known as the legend of the game.

However, it is not only his extravagant playing style and his great personality, who has ensured that he will be remembered by Snooker fans in the coming years.

From his battles with gambling and drug addiction to his “life-changing” health diagnosis, a huge fortune and glamorous younger partners, you know what you may not know about White's life outside of the snooker table.

Huge fortune

In the course of his 45-year professional career, White did not surprisingly deserve great prize money money, with CUETRACKER put the total number of GBP at 5.1 million.

After switching to media work in recent years, he added to his total networks, which according to celebrity assets to the region of 6.7 million GBP is estimated.

After White had to struggle with drugs and games of chance, he previously played millions of pounds in his career and led him to bankruptcy.

“I played at least three million pounds. So if I played three million pounds, I probably had to earn six or seven million to get it,” he told the Podcast of Anything Goes in 2021. “This is a lump, that's retirement money, so I should be more sick.

“But because it was going so quickly at the time, you don't think you are bankrupt through gambling.”

In his cocaine addiction, he said to Louis Theroux 'documentary Film of Snooker: “Cocaine was absolutely everywhere. It was like the devil's shoes, but crack – it's evil.

“I tried to smoke it and was completely addicted. I remember that I had £ 35,000 in one account and put it down on crack.”

Much younger TV moderator friend

After his fights, White – who is now sober – attributed his partner Jade Slusarczyk to keep him on the street and narrow.

Slusarczyk is a former winner of Miss Blackpool and is 23 years younger than White.

They met in 2018 during a Snooker tournament in their hometown and began to meet, with none of their considerable age difference.

How his relationship with the 39-year-old helped him said to The Sun: “It is impossible to say how much I drank in my wild days. It was drunk to the line and line to the line and I would miss it for days. It took 15 years for it to be sober, and I don't miss this life at all.

“Jade helped me because she didn't drink. I have never been so happy and I am happy to say that my life is in a good place. I don't have a zillion on the bench, but I have my family and jade.

“I didn't think she would go out with me for a minute because of the age difference. It is a miracle that she imagines. But she doesn't care about the age difference. Why should I?

“She is my girlfriend and she is fit, so I'm happy. She is a beautiful girl inside and outside.”

Health diagnosis “life -changing”

At the beginning of this year, White opened the diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorders (ADHD), which he says, “completely changed” his life.

The Snooker legend said in Stephen Hendys Cue Tips Podcast and said: “I will give you an exclusive. I was diagnosed with ADHD about two years ago.

“I had to work. With ADHD, they think of 15 things at the same time. So I'm like normal now. I have to be medical and all of that and it has completely changed my life.”

With regard to the disorder, which is characterized by symptoms of inattentiveness hyperactivity and impulsiveness, had influenced it throughout his career: “When they were under pressure, all of these things went back and suddenly I start to miss everything.

“The bags close as I strike them and get the balls like footballs. That would have looked back for me if I had known what I had, I would have better found it. That was a big thing.”

The diagnosis came almost 30 years after White had said that he had testicular cancer, a ordeal he admits that he was “afraid of dying”.

However, he was able to beat the illness after he had “captured” it early enough, and he was even able to have a fifth child after a successful operation to remove one of his testicles.

He said to The Guardian: “I realized that I had testicular cancer after finding a clump.

“I was so afraid of dying that I didn't even want to tell my wife Maureen. Fortunately, I caught it early enough. I even managed to produce a son – my fifth child – which is really a miracle.”