RUGBY ace Danny Cipriani’s new book reveals how the England squad’s former head coach Eddie Jones quizzed him “like a horny teenager” over his sex life with Kirsty Gallacher.
The fly half — who had just broken up with the presenter — was at a training camp in 2016 when he was shocked to be asked: ‘Haven’t you sha**ed her? What’s she like?’”
Danny, 35, recalls how the Australian singled him out at a team dinner in 2016 and kept “pecking” about his bedroom secrets with the glamorous Scottish TV presenter.
Kirsty and Danny got together after the collapse of her marriage to rugby player Paul Sampson, and they had tried to keep their romance under wraps.
He had been with the Sky Sports beauty for six months before parting, mainly due to their 12-year age difference — at the time she was 40 and he was 28 — and it was still raw.
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Jones is now coaching Australia and leading them into this Friday’s Rugby World Cup.
Danny appeared for England 16 times between 2008 and 2018 but struggled to get selected after Jones became head coach in 2015.
In exclusive extracts from his autobiography Who Am I?, Danny also reveals how wife Victoria Rose, 42, proved to be his saviour after years of womanising.
He then goes on to tell how losing his baby with Victoria — a boy who they called River — brought them even closer together.
Danny writes:
It’s May 2016 and England coach Eddie Jones has picked me for a three-day training camp at Pennyhill Park, in Surrey.
We’re all out for dinner on day one and Eddie comes and sits next to me.
The first words out of his mouth are, ‘Mate, doesn’t Kirsty Gallacher live around here? Haven’t you sha**ed her? What’s she like?’
I’ve just split up with Kirsty, after a short relationship, and it’s not something I want to talk to my head coach about, or anyone else for that matter.
Eddie keeps pecking, like a horny teenager, and in the end I tell him straight, ‘Eddie, I don’t want to talk about this, it’s making me uncomfortable’.
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Surprise, surprise, I’m not in the squad for the summer international against Wales.
He’s picked a part-time 10 ahead of me. I can’t help thinking Eddie only picked me for that training camp as a joke. It hurt at the time, but I did everything I could. So I sleep peacefully at night.
Whether you pick me or not is on you.
The 2019 World Cup, I got Player of the Year, Eddie Jones didn’t pick me again.
That was really tough to take because I did everything I could. Usually when I talk to women, I’m playing a role, a game, only revealing enough to get that familiar buzz.
But Victoria can see straight through me. She’s happy to call me out on my bulls***.
I wouldn’t say I enjoy it, but it’s certainly more stimulating than I’m used to.
We start chatting all the time on the phone. The early conversations last a couple of hours, but they soon end up lasting five or six.
I hold nothing back, and it’s the first time I’ve ever been fully truthful with a woman. It’s intense, it’s profound, and through it all, Victoria makes me feel comfortable.
After two weeks, and hours of conversation, I realise I’ve fallen in love with this incredible woman.
And when I finally return home, we spend every day together for the next two months, having only met four or five times before that.
Because of River, I shared parts of my soul with his mum I might never have known existed.
His spirit united two loving, determined individuals, opened them up and sent them on a wonderful journey of discovery.7
- EXTRACTED by Douglas Wight from Who Am I? by Danny Cipriani, published by HarperCollins on September 14, price £22.
