Adam Hills: ‘I knew I should have gone to the King’s birthday but I really wanted to go to rugby training’

The comedian and TV host on rugby league, his love of Weird Al Yankovic and getting mistaken for Wil AndersonGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailIs it true that you turned down an invite to King Charles’s 70th birthday so you could go to rugby training?Yes, that’s 100% true. To be honest, I knew I should have gone to the birthday but I really wanted to go to rugby training. This is ridiculous, but I’d been to Buckingham Palace a couple of times before and I’m at a stage in my life where I thought: “Actually, I’d much rather go to rugby training.” I had started playing disability rugby league and I became quite addicted to it. Training was my favourite part, just hanging out with a bunch of mates playing footy. That beats King Charles any day. No offence. Continue reading...

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