5 Celebrities You Didn't Know Were Rugby Union Fans

, Bardem would be an intimidating presence on the rugby field. He was a good enough player to represent Spain at national under 21 level as a flanker and prop.

We’re not just talking about the celebs who send a “Go England!” tweet once every four years here. The names on this list are people who’ve gone out of their way to connect with the team they follow, and we’ve got the photos to prove it.

The Milanese skater has become semi-professional at the age of just 18 and now has an astonishing 1.4m followers on TikTok.

The journey all began aged seven when she picked up her first pair of skates, starting a passion that has only grown since.

She said: “After practising dance for a few years, I wore a pair of ice skates at the age of seven and I immediately fell in love with figure skating.

“It has been a significant part of my life ever since and I practised it for about 10 years at a national and international competitive level, and then moved two years ago to inline roller figure skating, where I immediately obtained second place in the Italian junior championships.

“It requires many hours of training, as it is a very demanding sport from a technical and athletic point of view, but it also allows you to show the artistic and emotional side of the athlete.

“The goal is not just perfection in jumps and spins, but to achieve a perfect harmony of the athletic gesture with the music, expression and costume, in order to excite the audience.”

As a competitor herself, Dentella is all too aware of the commitment and the training that goes into reaching elite level sport.

She added: “As a sportswoman I have always been interested in other sports, obviously training daily for several hours I have never been able to practise others.

“I started following rugby a few years ago on television at weekends, watching the matches of the Italian national team at the Guinness Six Nations.

“I think it is a tough sport that requires a lot of grit and commitment, and therefore has some things in common with my sport.

“I like the team spirit, which is something I don’t really get to experience as I compete in individual competitions.”

Vorderman, who hails from Prestatyn in North Wales, is a passionate follower of Gloucester and Wales.

The presenter has been a regular on British TV screens after spending 26 years working on Countdown.

The mum-of-two is particularly well known for her amazing derriere and was even ranked ‘rear of the year’ twice in 2011 and 2014.

Who knew James Bond was a rugby fan? Daniel Craig has been spotted in both the British & Irish Lions and England changing room on numerous occasions in recent years.

Eponymous star of the 

Aquaman movie Jason Momoa was cheering on the Kiwis at the Vancouver leg of World Rugby’s sevens series at BC Place Stadium.

Attired in an old-school, non-branded All Blacks jersey from a distant era, Momoa roared the New Zealand sevens side on from the stands, and then met them in their dressing-room.

A Spanish actor best known (by some of us) for playing the psychopathic hit man Anton Chigurrh in “No Country for Old Men”.

Famed for his performance as a psychopathic hit man in No Country for Old Men

He once said in an interview that "playing rugby in Spain is like being a bullfighter in Japan" which suggests he suffered one concussion too many.