From The Gossip Life:

This footballer, a current/former Arsenal player professes to be such a devout Muslim that he refuses to touch alcohol and and engage in depraved behaviour. Well, the pictures i saw tend to disagree. He's obtained an injunction to prevent the story from surfacing, but the pictures show the footballer engaged in a steamy group sex session, guzzling down alcohol and just acting like a royal prat. Praise be to Allah indeed.

Could this be a player out on loan?

Arsenal have a few muslim players
Ozil
Diaby
Sanago

I thought it was an Australian, when I first heard who it was!

This is about five years old. Rumoured to be former, not current, Arsenal player who last season played for the team the dancing manager manages.

Yes I have heard it was a past actor who has not been in it for quite a long time.

Someone who might like Greco-Roman wrestling?

Gotcha. He was what some people would call Dishy and made quite a Marc in the shOw

Indeed

From CDAN:

He was at one point the biggest star on the planet, but now this permanent A+ list mostly movie actor is trying to stay alive long enough to shoot what will be his last movie.

Shades of Bowie's Blackstar there.

I have my suspicions as to who this might be.

Someone big in the 70s is my bet.

Dirty Harry?

Really hoping it's not Here's Johnny, who hasn't made a movie in around five years and is not seen much in general these days, but I feel like it could be.

I'm thinking it's 'Heeeere's Johnny!'

Popular guesses are the original movie Joker, Spartacus or his son, Smokey and the Bandit.

Joker and Sparticus are fully retired and not making any more movies. Son of Sparticus has a few projects, as does Smokey. Dirty Harry seems to be working one project at a time.

No

I adore him. Such a wonderful actor.

Stay alive? First name I thought it was Danny Zuko (but probably completely wrong!)

He seemed fine (from what I could tell through all the make-up/surgery) during the recent TV series based on the infamous 90s trial of Orange Juice Simpson

I remember reading in the tabloids a few years back that Joker was retiring because he couldn't memorise lines anymore or something along those lines but I thought/hoped it was just tabloid nonsense. If he has retired then it's a shame but he's more than earned the rest.

The last few years though it has seemed like he's starting to be in that ailing state of life. Hope I'm wrong.

Sony of sparticus sounds right.

Great actor and will be sorely missed.

Cancer will always come back and get you sadly.

He's not dead yet.

I know the original James Bond is nowadays called a 'retired actor' but is it possibly him? There a very few actors of very advanced age who could be described as 'permanent A+ lister' but he's one, IMO. The other few have been mentioned already. Mr Bond is certainly in the superstar category, and pushing 80. I wonder if he's got one last project they're trying to accelerate through.

There were some photos of Smokey and the Bandit going round a couple of weeks ago and he looked not good at all. Could be him.

Is he really a permanent A lister though? Boogie Nights apart the hits dried up 30 years ago.

A legacy can ensure your listing, most people can't name a bowie track since the 80's after all.

For those who can remember, he was definitely one of the biggest stars on the planet back in his day. That's probably secured his permanent A listing.