Spy: Star supporters fly in to back All Blacks

Sir Graham Henry, Jeremy Wells and Stephen Donald are all on their way to London to back the boys in black.

The past few weeks have seen wives and girlfriends of the All Blacks take flight to the UK to show their love and support for their men.

Tonight, former All Black and 2011 Rugby World Cup hero Stephen "Beaver" Donald, flanked by classic Kiwi reggae group Herbs and former Sevens star Eric Rush,
is taking his very own tour of support, the Beaver Tour, to London.

All Blacks Tours told Spy the plane was full and the Beaver Tour guests were in for quite a flight, as they'll be joined by members of the infamous Alternative Commentary Collective (ACC) - Matt Heath, Mike Lane, Jeremy Wells, Jason Hoyte and Leigh Hart.

The Alternative Commentary Collective is heading to London for the final episodes of Champagne Rugby

The ACC will shoot the final episodes of their online rugby show Champagne Rugby in London next week - with new episodes here every Friday.

The show is set inside NZ's most famous rugby scrotum - that of Wayne "Buck" Shelford. The scrotum also features the last remaining testicle in Buck's scrotum, which acts as the world's first "Social Media Testicle." The set and testicle will be joining the ACC in London.

More than 120,000 people have viewed Champagne Rugby since it launched four weeks ago.

Wells told Spy he was excited about the journey ahead.

"I am really looking forward to the chartered Air NZ flight with Beaver - most people dread the long-haul grind but we are planning NZ's first five-way mile-high club induction so time should fly by."

Last week, All Black coach Sir Graham Henry dutifully racked up the air miles flying home to collect his own planeload of RWC fans. Henry also had entertainment on his flight, keeping things Loyal with Dave Dobbyn, who posted a picture to Facebook with himself, former All Black Frank Bunce and Henry, captioned "Alternative front row?"

Among the many famous faces heading to the UK over the past few weeks, the most important have been the All Blacks' partners.

The WAG most Kiwis would want to give a hug of thanks to is Fatima Antaqi-Savea, gorgeous wife of Sunday's "Man of the Match", All Black Julian Savea.

Yesterday on social media, Savea sent his own thanks: "Good to see my wife during last week! Unconditional support from you love you and missing your smile."

Beauden Barrett's girlfriend Hannah Laity arrived in London two weeks ago and received a beautiful bunch of flowers from her man. Laity did not distract Barrett from training, instead catching up with girlfriends and heading to Italy.

After Sunday's win she reunited with Barrett in person and the pair posed in front of Cardiff Castle. When the boys went back into training, Laity went to the seaside town of Fowey to catch up with her Cornish relatives.

Captain Richie McCaw now has the support of his girlfriend, Black Sticks' player Gemma Flynn, who has arrived in the UK.

Again, Cardiff Castle proved popular with Flynn posing with friends and fellow WAGs outside the giant rugby ball embedded in the wall of the Castle.

Former Black Stick Honor Carter tweeted her husband the best kind of support message after Sunday's game: "You just get better with age @dancarter #likeaspringchicken #loveyourworkABs :- )"

You just get better with age @dancarter #likeaspringchicken #loveyourworkABs ;-)

— H O N O R (@HonorCarter) October 18, 2015

Victor Vito's wife, Amber, has also made the support trip and this week enjoyed seeing her husband before taking to the Welsh countryside with their 10-month-old baby son Karlos.

Owen Franks' wife Emma is on the Continent and like Laity has taken in the sights of Italy, taking their six-month-old son Thomas to Venice.

More wives and girlfriends are expected to arrive in London this week in time for Sunday morning's match at Twickenham.

- nzherald.co.nz