HENRY POLLOCK interview: Rugby’s most provocative player on ‘loving’ his ‘mad’ year, his England ambition for 2026, his viral TikTok dance, what Emma Raducanu taught him, the musical instrument he’s learning to play… and why he’d boo himself!

HENRY POLLOCK interview: Rugby’s most provocative player on ‘loving’ his ‘mad’ year, his England ambition for 2026, his viral TikTok dance, what Emma Raducanu taught him, the musical instrument he’s learning to play… and why he’d boo himself!

Henry Pollock struts into one of the corporate boxes at Franklin’s Gardens and flings his cap on to the floor. ‘Hey, bro, how you getting on?’ he asks. Cool as you like. He has just arrived from Northampton’s Christmas lunch. ‘I’ve got Tom Pearson in the Secret Santa,’ he says, fluffing up his peroxide blonde hair. ‘You spend up to £30 on a gift. I’ll probably be given something stupid. A bottle of hair dye or something like that.’ Is a new colo…