{"id":591604,"date":"2025-11-24T22:23:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T22:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/591604\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T22:23:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T22:23:14","slug":"freddie-steward-confirms-intent-of-englands-viral-tiktok-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/591604\/","title":{"rendered":"Freddie Steward confirms intent of England’s viral TikTok controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Freddie Steward has revealed the TikTok dance by four England<\/a> stars that has gone viral since the recent New Zealand<\/a> victory was filmed days before the game and was not intended to taunt the All Blacks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The footage of Steward, Fin Smith, Henry Pollock<\/a> and Tommy Freeman<\/a> performing the choreographed routine to Irish dancing music has attracted 12million views and been liked 1.5million times.<\/p>\n

Freeman released the clip after New Zealand had been crushed 33-19 at Allianz Stadium on November 15, accompanied by the caption \u201cPost game feels!\u201d.<\/p>\n

Steward insists the routine, which was enforced as a light-hearted fine for breaking squad rules, was never meant to be published on social media.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis needs to be cleared up. We actually filmed the dance on the Wednesday before the New Zealand Test, but Tommy took it upon itself to upload it after full-time,\u201d England\u2019s full-back said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt looked like we were being idiots and being slightly arrogant, so I was a bit p****d off with Tommy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe timing was slightly inappropriate but we were just having a laugh. You wouldn\u2019t believe how bored we get sometimes in camp.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a lot of free time in the evenings, we were in the room and thought we\u2019d just have a bit of fun \u2013 not intending it to go anywhere. Tommy thought he\u2019d stitch us all up\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cI said to him after he posted it, \u2018you\u2019ve blown it now\u2019. It\u2019s one and done. I\u2019m never getting involved again because he\u2019s thrown me under the bus.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt took more takes than you would believe. It took a while to film \u2013 a good 20 minutes. Probably my fault, I\u2019m not the freest mover.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never really put myself out there to that extent. To see what has happened on the back of it is crazy. It\u2019s got something like 10 million views, which is mind-blowing. Hopefully good feedback.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s stupid and it is silly but it is putting the game out there and hopefully it\u2019s attracting\u2026 I\u2019m not sure who it is attracting but hopefully some new fans and the younger generation.\u201d<\/p>\n

England have been delivering on the pitch as well as social media with Sunday\u2019s 27-23 victory over Argentina<\/a> extending their winning run to 11 Tests.<\/p>\n

Their next assignment is against Wales<\/a> at Twickenham on February 7 and they enter the Six Nations<\/a> amid high expectations that Steward insists should be tempered.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t want to get ahead of ourselves. We\u2019ve been on a great run of games, we\u2019ve had a few wins, but we\u2019ve not won anything serious yet,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis Six Nations will be a proper test and I have no doubt that when we come in for the Six Nations we\u2019ll be ready to go.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Freddie Steward has revealed the TikTok dance by four England stars that has gone viral since the recent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-591604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115607018237321766","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}