Former Wales star Gavin Henson was once dubbed the 'David Beckham of rugby', but after injuries forced him to retire the 41-year-old is now content running his local pub The Fox in St Brides Major with his wife Katie.
Welsh rugby legend Phil Bennett notably compared him to Beckham in 2004, when a 22-year-old Henson first starred for Wales in their Autumn internationals. "There are clear similarities - the different hair-styles and colours, the flashy boots, the flair, the tendency to occasionally flirt with controversy," Bennett wrote in a column for a Welsh newspaper.
"Henson has become the golden boy of the Welsh game and I just hope he copes with it." However, Henson, who became an even bigger star when he started dating singer Charlotte Church the following year, was unable to truly fulfil his potential with a combination of injuries and a lack of motivation meaning he only played 33 times for Wales and just once for the British and Irish Lions.
