{"id":105517,"date":"2025-08-31T20:22:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T20:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/105517\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T20:22:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T20:22:17","slug":"wales-international-returns-home-to-find-house-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/105517\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales international returns home to find house on fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Wales scrum-half Rhys Webb posted about the scare on social mediaRhys Webb (centre) revealed the news on Instagram(Image: \u00a9 Huw Evans Picture Agency)<\/p>\n

Former Wales scrum-half Rhys Webb has revealed that he returned home in recent days to find his house was on fire.<\/p>\n

The former Ospreys<\/a> star is currently banned from rugby – having been hit with a four-year ban in July 2024 after testing positive for a growth hormone. The 36-year-old now lives and works in Dubai, which is where the fire happened.<\/p>\n

“What a crazy 48 hours,” wrote Webb on an Instagram story.<\/p>\n

“Came home to find my place literally on fire. So, so lucky my family weren’t inside at the time. Even luckier it was only a small blaze and I’d left the door open so the emergency services could get in quickly.<\/p>\n

“Two days later, everything back to normal and now we can finally relax.”<\/p>\n

After that post, Webb then posted a video of a Dubai-based cleaning company scrubbing down a door after the fire – thanking them for their service.<\/p>\n

Webb’s rugby career was effectively ended last year, when he was banned for four years for a positive drug test while playing in France.<\/p>\n

The British and Irish Lions scrum-half had been suspended shortly after joining Pro D2 club Biarritz in 2023 after returning a positive test for human growth hormone (HGH) during a training session.<\/p>\n

Both A and B samples came back positive.<\/p>\n

The ban means that Webb will be ineligible to play until 2027. He will be 38 by the time the ban runs it course.<\/p>\n

At the time of his ban, Webb protested his innocence as he outlined his intent to appeal.<\/p>\n

“The sanction imposed on Rhys Webb is not final, and we have immediately instructed a lawyer at the Conseil d\u2019Etat to lodge an appeal to overturn the AFLD\u2019s decision,” said a statement from his lawyers.<\/p>\n

“In the meantime, Rhys wishes to reaffirm his innocence, pointing out that he has never undergone any other disciplinary procedure, of any kind, during his long career as a professional athlete and has never used any doping product, growth hormone in particular.”<\/p>\n

Prior to the ban, Webb had retired from international rugby ahead of the Rugby World Cup<\/a> in 2023.<\/p>\n

During his Test career, he played 40 times for Wales, as well as winning two Test caps for the Lions in New Zealand in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Wales scrum-half Rhys Webb posted about the scare on social mediaRhys Webb (centre) revealed the news on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[51335,5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-105517","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rhys-webb","9":"tag-rugby","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}