Tindall bouncer: I'm prepared for abuse

Queenstown bouncer Jonathan Dixon in Queenstown District Court. He is defending one charge of accessing a computer system and dishonestly obtaining video footage last month. Photo / Janna Dixon

The Queenstown bouncer charged with releasing the CCTV footage that landed England rugby captain Mike Tindall in so much trouble at the Rugby World Cup says 20 years as a bouncer has prepared him for the abuse he has copped since.

Jonathan Dixon has bemused many with his behaviour, first in allegedly uploading the footage of Tindall cavorting with an old flame in a Queenstown bar, and then with his antics before and after his court appearances.

Dixon, 40, was charged with accessing a computer system for dishonest purposes after video surfaced on YouTube showing Tindall, the husband of the Queen's granddaughter Zara Phillips, getting touchy-feely with Jessica Palmer at Altitude Bar when the England team was in town.

Dixon has pleaded not guilty and was remanded on bail when he appeared in Queenstown District Court on Tuesday.

Despite telling media he would like an interview with TV3's John Campbell because he was a "nice chap", Dixon turned up on TVNZ's Close Up programme tonight.

Dixon told presenter Mark Sainsbury there were probably only four people without sin - Gandhi, the Queen, his mother and God - and he got all his values from his mother.

"My mother's a beautiful little Irish lady .. she's my mum, she's my royal, she's my queen," Dixon told Sainsbury.

In response to suggestions that people thought he was dangerous and a sociopath he laughed and said: "cool".

And on the idea that he was an egomaniac, he said "mmm-hmm, hell yeah".

When Sainsbury said people had called him a "dork" and "creepy" and suggested he was on meth, he said: "There's no meth in Queenstown. The Queenstown police are extremely good."

He also said that his 20 years working as a bouncer had prepared him for the abuse he had received.

A Campbell Live spokesperson reportedly said Dixon had contacted the show but "they decided his story wasn't right for the show, especially as the matter is before courts".

There has been intense media interest in Dixon's case, particularly as it has involved an international rugby star, his royal wife and a mysterious blonde.

Outside court on Tuesday, Dixon brought a coffee for TV3 reporter Leanne Malcolm and gestured at Radio New Zealand journalist Steve Wilde, whom he took exception to being questioned by at his first appearance last month.

He said he would speak to the media but only those who hadn't said "something or quoted something negative about me or my family".