Vinnie Jones to delete Twitter account after dead fox photo fiasco

Movie hardman Vinnie Jones plans to delete his Twitter account after claiming an ex-employee was to blame for a post showing him posing with 100 dead foxes.
The soccer player-turned-actor is a keen hunter, but left animal rights activists outraged when a photograph of around 100 dead foxes was posted with a caption indicating they were his kills from a night hunt.
Vinnie, 52, denied he had uploaded the picture, and has now blamed a former assistant for the post.
“To resolve this #fox matter through investigation (sic) we have found sadly a disgruntled EX assistant of mine planted the #photo on my account,” he wrote. “Unfortunately my account will close and i’ll follow my country pursuits with the correct etiquette that have always been instilled in me.”
The offending tweet, which appeared on Sunday (23Jul17), read: “A real night lamping #foxes, anyone beat this?”
Animal rights activists were angry at the picture and reference to lamping – the practice of using vehicle headlights to flush out nocturnal animals before hunting them with a shotgun.
The Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels actor was quick to distance himself from the post.
“It is absolutely nothing to do with me whatsoever,” he told the Daily Mail. “I’d never seen the picture until this morning when I’d seen people going mad on Twitter saying I had done this and that. I was shaking, I’d never seen the picture, and I’d never seen that many foxes. That is an attack on me. I don’t know how it has got on there.”
In an interview with Shooting Times & Country Magazine earlier this month, Vinnie praised the practice of lamping.
“Lamping is probably my favourite,” he told the publication. “I’ve spent a lot of money customising my Land Rover for lamping. If the farmer has a fox problem I love going out and dealing with it for him.”
The actor is currently filming new U.S. TV series Deception for the ABC network.