, external<\/span><\/a> coordinating their routine in his hotel room.<\/p>\nWhile 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.<\/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<\/div>\n