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David Craven

England star responds to Piers Morgan amid celebration fury: "It was a bit of fun for charity"

Elliott Whitehead has laughed off Piers Morgan after the TV star slammed him for his try celebration mocking England’s controversial Ashes defeat insisting: “It was a bit of fun for charity.”

The England second-row took part in the joke celebration with his Canberra team-mates after they scored their opening try in today’s win over St George Illawarra.

Whitehead re-enacted fellow Yorkshireman Jonny Bairstow’s controversial stumping dismissal in the second Test when Raiders’ Jordan Rapana ‘bowled’ a rugby league ball at him and he’s ‘stumped’ by Zac Woolford.

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