Who is snooker player Shaun Murphy, what is his net worth and is he married?

SHAUN MURPHY has 1 of the finest cueing actions the athletics of snooker has ever seen.

Here we instrumentality a look astatine the life, vocation and net worth of 'The Magician'.

Who is Shaun Murphy?

Snooker ace Shaun Murphy was calved successful Harlow, England connected August 10, 1982.

As good arsenic being the satellite no.7 astatine snooker, Shaun is besides a keen golfer and pianist.

After being horrifically bullied astatine school, helium was homeschooled from the property of 13.

Shaun told the Guardian: "I grew up successful a tiny municipality and determination weren’t galore kids similar maine who were successful the insubstantial and connected the BBC.

“I was conscionable precise antithetic and kids tin beryllium cruel. I was terrified of going to schoolhouse due to the fact that it was a harrowing experience.

“I’d get beaten up each the time. In Year 9, erstwhile I was 13, I got near for dormant successful the toilet aft these kids attacked maine and near maine there.

“A teacher recovered maine and took maine home. She sat my parents down and said: ‘If you instrumentality my advice, you’ll ne'er nonstop Shaun backmost to this school. They’ll termination him.’”

Murphy has been joined twice.

Shaun and Claire Murphy tied the knot successful 2005, earlier divorcing successful 2008.

In 2016, helium joined Elaine O'Reilly, but the brace are nary longer together.

They person 2 children unneurotic — a son, Harry, and a daughter, Molly — but they similar to support their accusation retired of the nationalist spotlight, truthful small other is known astir them.

Murphy's existent partner, Jo, is often seen supporting the Magician astatine snooker events each astir the world.

She was with him each the mode for his stunning triumph astatine the 2025 Masters astatine Alexandra Palace.

What tournaments has Shaun Murphy won?

Shaun has enjoyed an illustrious career, including winning snooker's triple crown: the UK Championship, Masters and World Championship.

Here are the titles helium has lifted truthful far:

World Snooker Tour (WST) ranking events:

• 2023/24: Championship League
• 2022/23: Players Championship, Tour Championship
• 2019/20: China Championship, Welsh Open
• 2016/17: Gibraltar Open
• 2015/16: World Grand Prix
• 2013/14: World Open
• 2010/11: Players Tour Championship Grand Finals
• 2008/09: UK Championship
• 2006/07: Malta Cup
• 2004/05: World Championship

WST minor-ranking events:

• 2014/15: Ruhr Open, Bulgarian Open
• 2013/14: Gdynia Open
• 2010/11: Brugge Open

Non-ranking events:

• 2024/25: Masters
• 2017/18: Champion of Champions
• 2014/15: Masters
• 2011/12: Brazil Masters
• 2010/11: Wuxi Classic
• 2009/10: Premier League
• 2007/08: Malta Cup

What is Shaun Murphy's nett worth?

As of January 2025, Shaun has raked successful an estimated nett worthy of astir £5.3million.

In summation to competing, Murphy has besides enjoyed a palmy vocation arsenic a pundit erstwhile helium is not taking portion oregon erstwhile helium has been knocked retired of tournaments.

What did Shuan Murphy accidental astir his value loss?

The 2005 world snooker champion had tummy simplification surgery connected May 10, 2022 — conscionable 8 days after Ronnie O’Sullivan lifted a sixth Crucible crown.

Rather than opt for a impermanent solution — 1 prime was a gastric balloon — helium went for an “extreme” and “irreversible” measure.

It meant medics “removed 80 per cent of my stomach” which means, helium says, his four-year-old girl Molly “has a bigger tummy than maine now”.

As a effect of having to devour smaller information sizes, Murphy has plummeted from 20st to 15st.

The Magician explained: “Over the years I got to the constituent wherever I hated myself.

“I was successful a batch of pain. The value was the superior origin of that problem.

“I got to the constituent wherever I couldn’t tally astir aft my kids. I became that bloke who couldn’t crook down to necktie his shoelaces.

“It was wholly demoralising. I couldn’t get retired of this spiral of self-loathing.

“So I took a precise large determination to person gastric-sleeve surgery.

“It was a big, large determination that immoderate would accidental was excessively drastic but I had reached the constituent of nary return.

“I needed to bash thing serious. I couldn’t halt eating and I couldn’t halt drinking. I was successful a heavy depression.

“It mightiness beryllium excessively utmost to accidental it saved my beingness but that’s however it feels. And I privation I had done it 20 years ago.”

Before opting for the pioneering surgery, Murphy tried galore methods to trim his weight, including milkshake replacements, visits to Weight Watchers, Slimming World and different assistance groups, arsenic good arsenic hypnosis and podcasts.

He continued: “A batch of radical retired determination don’t spot nutrient successful the aforesaid sphere arsenic intoxicant oregon gambling but it is. I was addicted to eating.

“Mark Allen and I utilized to gag that we would commiserate and observe with Domino’s pizzas.

“You can’t portion 10 pints of Guinness 5 nights a week and person Domino’s 4 nights and unrecorded to archer the tale.

“There’s a past of heart disease successful the family. Both my grandad and my begetter had a bosom onslaught successful their mid-50s.

“All I tin bash is extremity the scales successful my favour.

“When that addiction oregon dependency grabs you, it’s precise hard to fto go.”

“Due to the surgery, I tin devour thing I privation but I conscionable can’t devour arsenic much. I consciousness afloat immediately.

“Those all-you-can-eat buffets are conscionable a discarded of clip connected maine present due to the fact that I astir get afloat connected the smell!

“My self-esteem has gone up — it’s made maine a amended bloke and a amended snooker player.”