I was an England Rugby World Cup winner – now I’m a full-time farmer with 600 sheep… everyone thinks I’m a millionaire

A FORMER England Rugby World Cup victor revealed helium present lives a wholly unrecognisable beingness arsenic a full-time farmer.

Julian White MBE, 51, erstwhile dominated sports fields with spectacular wins but present gives his clip to his 600 sheep and 90 cows.

White reached sporting highs erstwhile helium won the 2003 Rugby World Cup with his England team.

The icon was besides known for his roles scrummaging successful the beforehand enactment for Leicester Tigers.

21 years aft his immense triumph White revealed that helium near it down to thin to his magnificent Crabtree Farm, successful Leicestershire.

The erstwhile prima revealed helium started his beloved workplace successful 2006, towards the extremity of his clip playing rugby successful Leicester, helium told The Telegraph.

He runs his Midlands crippled with his woman Sara and their 3 kids.

He said: "It was fantastic astatine Leicester but I started reasoning astir beingness aft rugby.

"I rented a field, had a fewer sheep. And if you conscionable person 1 happening to absorption connected – conscionable rugby – it’s not healthy."

White shared however radical presume helium is capable to splash millions of pounds successful cash, but helium revealed this is acold from the truth.

The erstwhile jock revealed however immoderate different farmers person misunderstood however his sporting past has affected his existent life.

White said: "A batch of them are rather cagey.

"And, due to the fact that I was a rugby player, they person this bizarre thought that I’m immoderate benignant of multi-millionaire, but I’m obscurity adjacent that."

The rugby pro revealed helium loved his workplace but shared that beingness was not each rosy successful his caller career.

Money, utmost weather, and acquisition were each hurdles to creating and moving his beloved farm.

He said: "There person been immense setbacks.

"We had the ‘Beast from the East’ during lambing play and abruptly each my lambs were frozen successful the pens, worldly similar that.

"You were struggling to interruption adjacent anyhow and past you person that to woody with. Floods. It tin beryllium an implicit b***ard."

Despite these difficulties, White has carried connected his title-winning taxable from his aged career.

He has won aggregate nationalist awards for his cattle and has opened up his workplace gates to visitors.

He shared however overmuch helium loves his existent ever-demanding job.

White said: "I don’t privation to dependable similar 1 of these moany farmers. I emotion what I do. If I didn’t, I wouldn’t beryllium doing it."