{"id":295409,"date":"2025-11-19T18:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T18:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/295409\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T18:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T18:53:07","slug":"england-v-argentina-tiktok-dance-forfeits-for-steve-borthwicks-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/295409\/","title":{"rendered":"England v Argentina: TikTok dance forfeits for Steve Borthwick’s squad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Centre Henry Slade said that the quartet spent “about 45 minutes”, external<\/a> coordinating their routine in his hotel room.<\/p>\n

While it is not clear if Freeman’s video was imposed or motivated by joy after only England’s ninth win over the All Blacks in a 120-year rivalry, Elliot Daly, who is part of the team’s fines committee alongside Jamie George, said similar footage exists of other players.<\/p>\n

“There are a few fines going around that are TikTok dances,” he told the BBC’s Rugby Union Weekly.<\/a><\/p>\n

“If you do something wrong, you do a TikTok video. Although it doesn’t have to go on TikTok.”<\/p>\n

Steve Borthwick is one of those relieved about that final get-out clause. The head coach has been roped in for a cameo on one video that has, so far at least, not been shown beyond the team room.<\/p>\n

“There has been a lot of laughter, a lot of very bad dancing – I think that is one of the better ones,” Borthwick said of Freeman, Steward, Pollock and Smith’s effort.<\/p>\n

“I was asked to make a guest appearance in someone else’s TikTok dance, so there was a very limited role to play in one.<\/p>\n

“The team saw it and that is as far as it is going!”<\/p>\n

England take on Argentina on Sunday in their final match of 2025, seeking an 11th straight victory.<\/p>\n