'I killed Vinnie Jones - in front of my kids' says Jamelia

POP star Jamelia has revealed how she murdered Vinnie Jones – in front of her children.

The Birmingham singer is making her acting debut in a movie starring tough guys Vinnie and Celebrity Big Brother star Michael Madsen.

But it was unfortunate timing when she had to gun down Vinnie, just as her daughters arrived on the Hungarian film set of Magic Boys.

Jamelia, who is single and mum to six-year-old Tiani and Teja, 10, said: “It was quite a harrowing day.

“My kids had just flown over with my mom and wanted to see me at work. What they saw was me as a murderer.

“I had to explain to them what was happening and show them that the fake blood was just syrup, and nothing to be scared of.

“It’s quite a claim to fame, to say ‘I’ve killed Vinnie Jones!’

“He was fantastic, though, and really helped me in my first acting role. I was playing an air hostess avenging her father’s murder.

“The shoot lasted for three months in Hungary and I got to do lots of different things, including a couple of kissing scenes which I hated! It was with a Hungarian actor who couldn’t speak English, a complete stranger who I didn’t fancy.

“They say you get used to doing those intimate scenes but I never did. I’d like to try more acting, though.

“Michael Madsen was really funny but I was very surprised to see him in Celebrity Big Brother. It’s not the sort of thing I thought he’d do.”

Jamelia turned 31 last week and celebrated with a pamper day at Birmingham’s swankiest new spa, The Club and Spa at The Cube development in the city centre.

Brought up in a council house in inner city Hockley, Jamelia has never left the Midlands and now lives in the smart village of Barnt Green.

A year ago she made the Channel 4 documentary The House That Made Me, in which she had an emotional reunion with the father who walked out on her as a child.

She hadn’t seen convicted armed robber Donald Williams for seven years but wanted to tell him what a traumatic effect his absence has had on her life and that of her brothers, two of whom are in prison after gang-related shootings.

Now she plans to make another TV documentary on the subject of absent fathers.

“I want to show them the effect it has on the children and what the women they leave behind have to go through,” explains Jamelia, who has also been asked to make a documentary about mothers in prison.

“I could never leave my children so I don’t understand how men can. I think some just don’t understand the consequences of their actions. My father was genuinely surprised when I told him how much pain he’d caused me.

“I have spoken to him since we met again but not seen him. I feel like I’ve got closure and it’s a relationship I don’t need to have now.”

Jamelia’s hit Superstar was one of the most played songs of the Noughties, and she is currently recording her first album in four years.

“I hope to release a single in the next couple of months and an album in September,” she adds.

“I’m working with people who have produced Rihanna and Mary J Blige. It’s the longest album I’ve taken to make, and the longer it takes, the more I worry about whether it’s right.”