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Scrum V Top 5: Gavin Henson

Scrum V

BBC

Sports, Rugby

4.6961 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2026

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Comedian and actor Mike Bubbins welcomes one of Wales’s most talented and mercurial players to the bar, Gavin Henson. For years, Gavin has avoided the spotlight, but now he enters Mike’s bar to discuss his top five most admired players.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:07.2

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0:12.1

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0:13.3

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0:39.5

Hello, I'm Mike Bubbins and this is Scrum 5, Top 5.

0:43.1

Welcome to My Bar, where I'll be speaking to some Welsh rugby legends during this year's Six Nations.

0:47.6

Today we're talking Top 5 Most Admired players, and we're kicking things off with a very special guest.

0:53.7

I'm delighted to welcome one of Wales's most talented and mercurial players.

0:57.7

It's Gavin Henson.

1:15.2

My very great pleasure to welcome to the bar, Kevin Henson.

1:16.5

Hey, mate, all right.

1:18.5

Oh, good.

1:19.8

Absolure pleasure, mate.

1:20.9

Thanks, having me. Some huge fan of yours.

1:22.2

Cheers.

1:23.2

Lovely bar you got, yeah.

1:24.2

Thank you, man.

1:24.6

Well, you're a landlord these days, so what does it compare? Yeah, it's nice and dark like mine, it's good, nice. But cold though. Is it, well, you're wearing a t-shirt. I don't blame you for one way. If I had those arms I've been wearing a t-shirt, but, yeah, it's like going to, but it's memorabilia. Yeah. You probably recognise the older Barry Boys shirt up there, number seven. What was that? Me. I was that? Barry Boys Comprehensive. Oh, right, okay. The big 87 season. Oh, lovely. You were seven, were you? Yeah, I was a seven. Yeah, I was a seven. That was about, nearly six stone ago now. Yeah, yeah. Physical? Yeah, I like to think I was physical. Yeah, I liked, I liked my tackling, like my running. Oh, good. Yeah, I mean, I wasn't like Gavin Ernst and stuff. At the time, yeah. And that's, so that's my grandmother's brother's shirt on the end,

2:19.3

that Welsh shirt from 1939. Oh, really? Yeah. I was in the blood then. Yeah, yeah. Very nice. Got a few bits of balls, mate. But there's always room for more if you want to. Oh, yeah. I got my mother's, yeah. My mother's got it all. What's she got? I don't know.

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