The 26-year-old centre and some of his fellow Northampton Saints players sneaked into their pal’s home late at night and startled him awake with a confetti cannon, and though the prank was “fun”, Fraser regrets how “scared” his pal was.

He told Rugby World magazine: “We put a big emphasis on connections at Saints among the backs and we did this thing in one meeting entitled ‘My House’.

“You could go anywhere with it, so Sam Vesty, Fin Smith and I did our version of Michael McIntyre’s Midnight Game Show. The victim was George Furbank.

“I’d been tasked with feeding Furbs’ fish a few months previously when he was away with England and I’d held onto a key to his house.

“We sneaked in at 12.30 at night and set off a confetti cannon in his bedroom. We filmed the whole thing and it was pretty good.

“As fun as it was, it haunts me a little bit because the fear in Furbs’ eyes and in his voice when I woke him up was scary.”

Meanwhile, Fraser hopes to establish a business of his own away from his work on the rugby pitch.

Asked what else he would like to achieve, he said: “To run a successful business. A coffee shop seems to be the classic rugby thing, but I haven’t decided if that’s the area to go into yet.”