Rugby World Cup: Ex-England star Danny Cipriani reveals awkward sex chat with Eddie Jones
Wallabies coach Eddie Jones has been called out by a former England star over an incident during his time in charge – where he grilled the player over his sex life.
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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 five-eighth — 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?’”
Cipriani, 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.
“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?’,” Cipriani writes in his booked.
“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.”
Gallacher and Cipriani 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.
“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’,” Cipriani adds.
“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.”
Jones is now coaching Australia and leading them into this Friday’s Rugby World Cup.
Cipriani 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.
This story first appeared in The Sun and has been republished with permission.
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