Sonny Bill Williams has been spotted spending time with banned far-right influencer Sneako during the streamer’s recent visit to Australia.

The American content creator was travelling around the country, where Williams relocated to play NRL, before his visa was cancelled by Australia’s Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke this morning.

A day earlier, Sneako shared a YouTube video of him and Williams discussing their decisions to revert to Islam, the Daily Mail reported.

The former All Black converted in 2009 while playing for the French rugby union team Toulon.

In the clip, Williams asked: “How do you handle the fitna of women, bro?”

Fitna is an Islamic concept that refers to a test or temptation, generally one that challenges a person’s faith.

“I think even Prophet Muhammad said that the hardest test for a man is a woman, right?”

Sneako, whose real name is Nicolas Kenn De Balinthazy, is understood to have converted to Islam in recent years and has drawn criticism for his association with the far-right “Manosphere”.

He was the subject of a petition for him to be barred from entering Australia after he expressed extremist and anti-Semitic sentiments, including the comment that “Hitler had aura”.

Sonny Bill Williams with his family. Photo / Twitter

The 27-year-old has also publicly affiliated with Andrew Tate, Nick Fuentes and Braden Peters, better known as Clavicular, all of whom have been condemned for misogynistic rhetoric.

Burke told Sky News the decision to revoke Sneako’s visa and permanently ban him from returning to the country was a firm one.

“Our Government has made it very clear we will use every power available to us to protect our community from people coming to this country to spread hatred.

“The clauses that have been used to cancel this visa were amended by the Parliament early this year”, he said.

“That means it’s not simply the current visa that is cancelled, there is now a lifetime ban preventing him from ever applying for another visa to Australia. We are a better country when he is somewhere else.”

Williams was himself the subject of separate backlash in 2023 when he shared a post on X that was labelled as a transphobic endorsement.

The heavyweight boxer reposted Anastasia Maria Loupis’ comment that she “thanked God” her parents didn’t let her get a sex change when she was 12.