'show Your Personality' - Bern Defends Tiktok Dance

Guinness Women's Six Nations: Ireland v England

Venue: Virgin Media Park, Cork Date: Saturday, 12 April Kick-off: 16:45 BST

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England prop Sarah Bern says she would not hesitate if asked to execute different TikTok creation unrecorded connected aerial - because it is "fun" and shows "personality".

Following nan Red Roses' 11-try hammering of Wales astatine Principality Stadium successful information 2 of nan Women's Six Nations, Bern and Wales full-back Jasmine Joyce-Butchers joined BBC Sport pundits unrecorded connected aerial and performed a TikTok creation that went viral.

Backlash connected societal media soon followed for Joyce-Butchers, who later defended her participation, because her broadside had conscionable suffered a 55-point conclusion successful beforehand of a grounds crowd of 21,186 for a Wales women's squad arena connected location soil.

Bern, 27, confirmed BBC producers had approached her anterior to nan crippled astir doing nan dance, pinch nan Bristol Bears prop grabbing her nine team-mate correct earlier going connected TV.

Both players were inspired to definitive themselves online by TikTok rugby sensation Ilona Maher, who has complete 8 cardinal followers connected societal media and played pinch nan brace during her caller short stint astatine Bristol.

"I said really cool it would beryllium to observe Wales getting a grounds crowd and caller coach and this being an astonishing event," Bern told BBC's Rugby Union Weekly.

"Jaz loved nan idea. At nine we are silly and funny. That is wherever we are astatine Bristol aft Ilona brought a existent bully ray to societal media and filled america pinch assurance to show your characteristic and bask it.

"I want women – for maine anyhow arsenic it is not thing I had – to beryllium really beardown female domiciled models.

"Let's rotation pinch nan punches. That is what I would emotion to beryllium and thing I americium navigating successful myself. It is thing I would emotion group to look up to and opportunity 'she gave it her champion shot, had fun, what a measurement of surviving life'."

Bern confirmed 28-year-old American prima Maher had been successful touch aft nan divisive creation to opportunity "haters are gonna hate" and was afloat of support for nan pair.

Bristol prop Bern had done thing akin pinch England fans aft nan win against Italy successful York which besides went viral., external

She has nary regrets complete her caller TikTok efforts, remaining master successful her mentation for games and eager to turn nan women's crippled earlier a location Rugby World Cup successful August.

"It is simply a caller scenery and we are moulding it for ourselves," Bern said.

"We tin determine arsenic female rugby players what this abstraction looks like. It doesn't person to look a definite way, and if you don't for illustration what I do past you don't person to watch it aliases comment. You tin scroll past.

"There are a batch of group retired location who do bask it and location were a batch of affirmative comments. For each antagonistic 1 location are 3 aliases 4 bully comments."

Maher tin play astatine centre aliases connected nan helping and won a bronze badge successful sevens for nan United States astatine nan Paris Olympics past summer.

She scored 4 tries successful 7 games during a three-month spell astatine nan Bears and has precocious been included successful USA's XVs subordinate excavation for this year, while continuing her successful societal media career.

The World Cup marks nan first clip Maher could characteristic successful title for nan United States successful XVs since 2021, arsenic she intends to beryllium progressive successful nan opening crippled against England astatine Sunderland's Stadium of Light successful August.

"Ilona is truthful humble and useful incredibly hard. Everything you spot connected societal media is her and she is simply a superb icon for not only our athletics but women successful general," Bern added.

"If I tin beryllium a mini spot for illustration her past that would beryllium amazing.

"She is doing truthful overmuch for our sport. She needs to beryllium retired location pushing rugby into different people's faces.

"She is destined for bigger and amended things. I would emotion her to travel backmost to Bristol and play successful our Prem, but I deliberation she has sewage a bigger occupation to do."