Ronnie O’Sullivan hopes to reconcile with his estranged daughter who he hasn’t seen in over a decade.

The seven-time snooker world champion was left under no illusion that he would play no part in the life of his eldest daughter, Taylor-Ann Magnus, following his most recent Crucible triumph back in 2022.

‘He’s not part of my life,’ she said in an interview with the Mirror shortly after her father equalled Stephen Hendry’s record of world championship triumphs. ‘I wouldn’t want someone like that around me and my child.’

‘I was 17 or 18 the last time I saw him and I forgave him within myself, although that doesn’t excuse what he did,’ added Magnus, whose mother dated O’Sullivan for two years in the 1990s.

In a wide ranging conversation with The Times O’Sullivan, who recently relocated to

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