Ilona Maher is a social media phenomenon and the Bristol Bears new signing says rugby needs to learn the secrets behind her numbers.
She is big, strong and fast, with deceptively good hands. But she is not, by her own admission, the best."There are so many great athletes like Portia Woodman and Maddi Levi .That "something else" is something else.
On that side of the Atlantic, the A-list hit the floor. In previous series, boxing legends Evander Holyfield and Floyd Mayweather have danced , NFL hall of famer Jerry Rice did a cha-cha-cha and World Cup winner Hope Solo was paired up and voted off.Ilona Maher: Rugby allows you to express yourself in the fullest way possible
England prop Hannah Botterman has already been giving her lifts around Bristol and Maher name-checks Wales wing Jasmine Joyce-Butchers - an old sevens adversary - and England pair Holly Aitchison and Abbie Ward as other stars she is looking forward to playing alongside. "Being on the pitch is amazing, but as a female athlete, as a female rugby player, I have to do 10 times as much off the field.
"I think rugby is, in many ways, stuck in the old ways - on the field you have just got to work and that's where it stops," she added.
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