Steele Quinnell, 26, comes from the Quinnell rugby dynasty but has chosen a different public path. He works as a personal trainer and launched a drag persona, Heidi Heights, in the spring. He regularly performs at Ffos Las racecourse and a promotional interview there unexpectedly attracted widespread attention online. He tried rugby as a child, playing one game in Llanelli before deciding the sport was not for him. His family did not pressure him to pursue international rugby; his father Scott advised that if his heart was not in the sport he should not continue.
I mean, nothing I said in the interview was bad or wild or anything, but I think I was a bit naive to the fact that it was going to go big I thought it was just going to be a local thing for the people around the race course. But suddenly there was all this interest.
All the PE teachers, they were like: Ah, Scott Quinnell's boy. I can't wait to get him going, I'll be the one he's talking about as an early inspiration when he's on Scrum V on the BBC.' I think they realised quite quickly they had their work cut out for them. I played about one game when I was little in Llanelli and I thought: Nah, this isn't for me.' My dad was fine with it. He told me: If you don't want to do it, your heart's not in it, then don't, because it's not easy, you'll get battered around on the pitch
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