Let’s settle this right now — before the algorithm confusion swallows us whole.
The Ben White trending across rugby social media is not the Arsenal centre-back who recently married Milly Adams. This is Ben White the scrum-half. Scotland’s first-choice nine. A 2025 British & Irish Lions tourist whose on-field intelligence makes him one of the most dangerous base operators in the northern hemisphere. And the man who made one of the boldest career bets in European club rugby by moving to RC Toulon.
Off the pitch, though? He’s been making moves of a very different kind.
Because 2026 has brought a significant personal shift for the Scottish international — a shift that most articles still ranking on Google haven’t managed to catch up with. So here’s the real story.
Who is Ben White’s New Girlfriend, Courtney Orr?
Her name is Courtney Orr. And if that doesn’t ring a bell yet, give it time.
Orr is a sports PR specialist — one of those quietly powerful figures who operates behind the scenes of British sport, the kind of professional who connects athletes, brands, and broadcasters with a precision that rarely generates its own headlines. She moves in exactly the circles you’d expect for someone in her position.
White made the relationship official on social media in May 2026, posting their first photos together without fanfare. No glossy supplement shoot. No carefully staged debut. Just a quiet, deliberate step into the public eye — and for a man who protects his private life the way he protects the base of a scrum, that gesture said everything you needed to know.
The dynamic makes a kind of sense, too. A rugby player embedded in the professional sports ecosystem, dating someone who understands that world from the inside. No need to explain a pre-season schedule. No apologies for a match moving your anniversary dinner.
Are Jodie Burrage and Ben White Still Together? (The Split Explained)
No. They are not.
And this is where most content ranking for this keyword is simply wrong — frozen in a version of events that hasn’t been accurate for months. Let’s fill in the blanks properly.
White and Burrage were, for a while, one of British sport’s genuinely compelling modern couples. A Lions scrum-half and a WTA tennis star, sharing a life in Richmond — it had that rare quality of feeling both aspirational and entirely real. During the pandemic years, they built something that went well beyond the Instagram optics.
When London Irish collapsed — one of the ugliest financial implosions English rugby has seen in recent memory — Burrage was reportedly his anchor through the uncertainty.
So what went wrong? Geography. Relentless, career-driven geography.
Burrage operates on the WTA Tour — a circuit that demands she be in Auckland one week, Melbourne the next, then Dubai, then Paris, then Eastbourne, then back to Wimbledon, then repeat. Meanwhile, White planted roots in the South of France after his move to RC Toulon — a contract with significant lifestyle and financial implications that meant daily life in the Top 14 bubble, on a different timezone, in a different culture.
Two elite athletes. Two unforgiving professional calendars. The distance didn’t break them with a bang. It eroded things quietly — the way most high-functioning relationships end when two careers are this demanding and this uncompromising about geography.
They confirmed their split, low-key, earlier in 2026.
Who is Jodie Burrage?
Burrage is, genuinely, one of the most watchable players on the British tennis circuit. A Wimbledon crowd favourite whose serve-and-volley instincts feel almost nostalgic in the modern baseline-dominated game — she competes on the official WTA Tour with a fearlessness that has consistently made her a fan favourite among British supporters.
She stepped away from competition briefly for personal reasons — a decision that required real courage — and has since returned with a reset perspective and renewed focus. As of now, she is single and, by all accounts, entirely invested in her career on tour.
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Frequently Asked Questions
No. Jodie Burrage is not married. Following her split from Ben White earlier in 2026, she is currently single and focused on competing on the WTA Tour.
Ben White is currently in a relationship with Courtney Orr, a sports PR specialist. The couple made their relationship public in May 2026.
Scotland and Lions winger Duhan van der Merwe is married to Nea van der Merwe.
