Ray Winstone's big jump in career over in Italy after acting work withered away

The popular actor has set up camp in Italy amid the ongoing Hollywood writers' strike - and has also given up smoking after a period of 44 years of sparking up

Actor Ray Winstone has taking up a rather different career in Italy, as the Sexy Beast star enjoys some simpler pleasures at his home in Italy. The 66-year-old has also finally giving up smoking after 44 years, on what he calls the 'oilies', reports the Mirror.

Ray said: “I gave up smoking about five or six months ago. One day I just bought a packet of cigarettes and I lit one up and went, ‘What are you doing? I don’t even enjoy this’. I just threw them away, and I feel so much better for it. I loved an oily didn’t I? The star is also improving his fitness with some manual labour work near to his Italian mountaintop home in Sicily.

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