6'4"
Luke Burgess (born 20 February 1987) is the tattooed bad boy of the
Burgess rugby family. Ordinarily I'm not into tattoos but thank
goodness that Luke has them otherwise I could not tell him from his
huge family of hunky brothers, some of which are twins. He is the
naughty one. While his brothers have had more minor scandals (liked
leaked nude selfie pictures of brother George and his giant "junk")
Luke managed to get himself thrown off a team due to a drunken brawl
in Arizona that was put up on youtube.
Luke is an English professional rugby
league footballer for the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles in the National
Rugby League. A forward like his brothers Sam, George and Tom, he
previously played in Super League for English sides, Harlequins and
Leeds Rhinos, with whom he won the 2009 Super League Grand Final, and
the South Sydney Rabbitohs in the NRL. He and his brothers
have all played for this team which is named after rabbits for no
particular reason. He also played for a team called "Manley."
I'm serious. Now THAT is a manly name for a team. Actually the
town they are in is called Manley. Wow my kind of place no girls
allowed!
Burgess was born on 20
February 1987 in Liversedge, Wakefield, West Yorkshire. His late
father, Mark Burgess who died of Motor neurone disease, was also a
rugby league footballer who played for Nottingham City, Rochdale
Hornets, Dewsbury and Hunslet; whilst his mother Julie is a teacher,
currently employed at The Scots College in Bellevue Hill, Sydney. His
younger brothers Tom and George, currently play professional rugby
league with the South Sydney Rabbitohs, while Sam plays rugby union
for Bath Rugby. He attended Heckmondwike Grammar School to receive a
secondary education before becoming a professional rugby player. He
played his junior rugby for Dewsbury Moor, and also played for
Liversedge Cricket Club.
Burgess played Prop for the Leeds
Rhinos having previously been on loan to Harlequins RL and
Doncaster. He made his first appearance for Leeds in defeat at
Castleford Tigers in March 2008. Burgess' début game was against
Castleford Tigers at Wheldon Road, Leeds lost this game. Burgess
scored his first try on his second game against Harlequins RL. At the
end of the 2008 season, Burgess became the inaugural winner of the
Albert Goldthorpe Rookie of the Year Award, presented by the leading
trade newspaper, Rugby Leaguer & League Express. In 2009, Burgess
played in 28 games, however, he only scored one try for the club
against Salford City Reds, compared to five tries from only five
appearances in 2008. On 21 June 2011 it was confirmed that Luke had
signed for the South Sydney Rabbitohs, joining brothers Sam, Tom and
George, at the club who play in the Australian NRL.
During the
2011 NRL season Burgess was named to make his NRL debut for Souths
having been in Australia for less than two weeks. In May 2013, model
Yolanda Hodgson who had been a contestant on Australia's Next Top
Model in 2011, gave birth to the couples first child, daughter Grace
Luca. In August 2013, the Burgess brothers became the first set of
four brothers to line up in the same Australian side since Ray, Roy,
Rex and Bernard Norman played for Sydney's Annandale club in the 1910
NSWRFL season. In 2015, he joined the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles,
after being granted an early leave by the South Sydney Rabbitohs,
after an incident at the Rabbitohs' high-altitude training camp in
Arizona, United States.
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