Club and country team-mate Jamie George says England will rally around captain Maro Itoje as he grieves the death of his mother.<\/p>\n
Itoje missed a Six Nations launch event in Edinburgh on Monday, having travelled to Nigeria for the funeral.<\/p>\n
George’s own mother died during the 2024 Six Nations after being diagnosed with lung cancer a few weeks before.<\/p>\n
“It’s horrible news, I’ve been through it myself,” said George, who plays alongside Itoje at Saracens and has toured with him three times for the British and Irish Lions.<\/p>\n
“It’s a hugely challenging time for him and a hugely challenging time for his family.<\/p>\n
“The way he has carried himself over the last few months has been incredibly impressive. The important thing is that he’s been given enough space to mourn and grieve.<\/p>\n
“The way he has kept showing up and put the team first in a lot of ways has been incredible.<\/p>\n
“I know he’ll be wanting to do his family proud over the next short period of time. We’re all very proud of him and will be there for him.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Club and country team-mate Jamie George says England will rally around captain Maro Itoje as he grieves the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-393541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393541","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=393541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}