{"id":711160,"date":"2026-07-25T22:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T22:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/711160\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T22:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T22:43:08","slug":"warrington-wolves-boss-sam-burgess-explains-brothers-presence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/711160\/","title":{"rendered":"Warrington Wolves boss Sam Burgess explains brother&#8217;s presence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Burgess has confirmed brother George will be around the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loverugbyleague.com\/club\/warrington-wolves\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Warrington<\/a> camp over the next few months, but only due to his arrival in the UK for an acting role.<\/p>\n<p>Australia-based George, 34, is twinned with sibling and current Huddersfield Giants star Tom.<\/p>\n<p>George retired from rugby league at the back end of 2022 through ongoing hip issues and then hung up his boots again for good circa 12 months later having helped Cairns Brothers to the league title in an amateur division.<\/p>\n<p>The former England international took up acting following his retirement, and more recently, made his bow in the boxing ring: being beaten fellow ex-NRL star Nelson Asofa-Somona back in June.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday evening saw older brother Sam\u2019s Warrington side beaten 28-12 at Leigh Leopards, and it did not take the TV cameras long to pick up brother George, who was in club clothing alongside the head coach and his staff.<\/p>\n<p>But while George has linked up with Wire\u2019s staff on an unofficial basis, his main vocation while back in the UK will be on his own acting career.<\/p>\n<p>Warrington boss Sam Burgess explains brother George\u2019s presence during Leigh defeat<\/p>\n<p>Following the loss at the Leopards\u2019 Den, head coach Sam was asked about his brother\u2019s involvement.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old explained: \u201cHe (George) is hard to miss, isn\u2019t he?! He\u2019s a big lad!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGeorge is in town, he\u2019s got a new acting role in a TV show that he\u2019s going to film soon, so he\u2019s going to spend a bit of time with us while he\u2019s getting ready for that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a big, high-flying actor these days!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know if I can talk about it, but he\u2019s got a great role coming up that he\u2019s going to be over here filming for, so you might see a bit more of him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Warrington have now lost four of their last six games, including two defeats to local foes Leigh: who also beat them earlier this month at the Hill Dickinson Stadium on Merseyside during Magic Weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The Wolves remain fourth on the Super League ladder though, and have a game in-hand to come on most around them next month, with that coming away against fellow play-off hopefuls Hull KR.<\/p>\n<p>Sam added: \u201cThere\u2019s no official capacity for George.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously he\u2019s my brother, he\u2019ll be around, but he\u2019s got no official capacity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s just doing his own work and supporting me while he\u2019s here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Burgess has confirmed brother George will be around the Warrington camp over the next few months, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-711160","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\/711160","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=711160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}