Personal Life
Brown is married to Helen, his third wife, with children and has homes in Middlesbrough and Lincolnshire. In 2003 he was fined £200 in Blackpool for assaulting a fan who had sworn at him; of the incident, Brown said "I have traditional values and I wanted the man to stop swearing in front of women and children who were on the pier."
Brown was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2002, and had a vocal cord removed. In 2006 he released an autobiography, Common as Muck: The Autobiography of Roy 'Chubby' Brown. He is also co-owner of the racehorse "Rasaman".
On 8 April 2009 Brown's son, Martin Reilly, 36, of Stillington, County Durham, was jailed for four years for conspiracy to supply cocaine and possession of heroin and cannabis, having admitted offences dating from a November 2008 arrest. Brown was understood to have little contact with his son.
On 12 December 2009, it was announced that Brown was facing a charge of common assault on a woman, after an incident in a car park in Middlesbrough on 2 September 2009. At Teesside Magistrates' Court on 5 January 2010, Brown denied the charges via his solicitor. He was acquitted on 16 March 2010.
In December 2011, he self-published a collection of memoirs from his life and career with Fast-Print Publishing called It's Funny Being Me.
He is a supporter of Middlesbrough F.C..
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