Hot shot snooker ace Tony Knowles received plenty of attention as one of the sport’s biggest stars – and he gleefully

boasted about his sexual escapades in British tabloids

Perhaps the most well-known player in snooker in the early 1980s was Tony Knowles.

 

The Lancastrian was a unique talent who shot to fame in 1982 after defeating Steve

Davis 10-1 in the World Snooker Championship preliminary round. He went on to reach three World

Championship semi-finals, establishing his reputation as snooker’s poster boy.

Knowles savored the wealth and notoriety that accompanied his rise to prominence, receiving a deluge of

heartfelt letters from female fans. And he developed an unmistakable reputation

as a playboy as he rose to the second place in the world rankings.

Knowles, who is 68 years old and has been retired for a while, is most known

for his antics off the table. Most notoriously, just before the 1984 World

Snooker Championship, the incredibly self-assured celebrity controversially

consented to a string of sultry tabloid exclusives.

He appeared in three different columns in The Sun, bragging about his sexy

exploits, after selling The Sun his amazing stories. Knowles referred to

himself as “the hottest pot in snooker” in one headline.

Still, Knowles’s actions were not shocking. Author of “Tony Knowles – Heart Breaks,” Gareth McGinley,

disclosed that the snooker sensation supposedly had three different lovers

present at his first-ever professional victory.

 

Other headlines about him said things like “What a break! “, and there were even claims that he liked to wear

women’s underwear. The phrases “I sign their sexy bits” and “Three birds in my

bed” Knowles notoriously attended Josephine’s nightclub in Sheffield, open

from 1976 to 2003, during the world championship fortnight.

 

 

It would be expected that his off-field antics would negatively affect his performance. He lost to John Parrott 7–

10 in the opening round, which was a stunning way to exit the competition.