in the 2015 Six Nations but failed to make an appearance. The following week, he replaced George Ford during the second half against Italy and scored a try with his second touch. England went on to win 47–17. Cipriani was subsequently left out of the final 31-man squad for the 2015 Rugby World Cup. In 2016, Cipriani was left out of new coach Eddie Jones' first elite player squad for the Six Nations. International tries Controversies Cipriani was arrested for drunk-driving after the car he was driving was involved in a collision with a taxi at 05:15 on 1 June 2015. He was convicted after a five-day trial for drunk-driving before Westminster Magistrates' Court on 24 June 2016. He was ordered to pay a total of £7,620 in fines and costs and banned from driving for 18 months. On 15 August 2018, during a pre-season tour in Jersey, Cipriani was arrested after an incident at a nightclub in St Helier. He was charged with common assault on a doorman, larceny, assault on a police woman, resisting arrest and being disorderly on licensed premises later that day. Personal life Danny Cipriani is mixed race. His father is Afro-Trinidadian with distant Italian heritage while his mother is English. Cipriani's father, Jay, and his mother, Anne, separated soon after his birth. Although his father returned to Trinidad, Cipriani was able to remain in contact with him. In 2013, Cipriani was hospitalised after being hit by a double-decker bus in Leeds on an end-of-season night out with his Sale Sharks team-mates doing a pub crawl known as the Otley Run. Cipriani was concussed and kept in hospital overnight to undergo x-rays, his club said, adding he was "on his way home [with] bumps and bruises." In 2014, Cipriani posed shirtless for a PETA "Ink Not Mink" advert, showing off his tattoos on behalf of the anti-fur campaign. Cipriani dated television presenter Caroline Flack in 2019. He is married to Victoria. In February 2020, Cipriani stated that he has suffered from depression since the age of 22. References External links Players and Staff 1987 births Living people Black British sportsmen British expatriates in Australia England international rugby union players English expatriate rugby union players English people of Italian descent English people of Trinidad and Tobago descent English rugby union players Expatriate rugby union players in Australia Gloucester Rugby players Melbourne Rebels players People educated at