Eight breaks later, Mike Tindall finally gets nose straightened

Mike Tindall broke his nose eight times. Photo /Getty

Former England rugby captain Mike Tindall has finally had his broken nose straightened out after an operation.

The sports star has fought off the royals' requests for treatment for years since marrying the Queen's granddaughter Zara Phillips in 2011.

At the time Zara's mother, Princess Anne, reportedly offered to pay for the surgery after she became worried about the wedding photographs.

The former Bath and Gloucester centre broke his nose at least eight times during his career and his face was cruelly mocked by teammates as "a relief map of the Pennines" due to its twisted bridge.

He appeared at an endurance competition in Sussex over the weekend with fellow ex-internationals Neil Back and Will Greenwood.

Great day at the Wolf Run with @WillGreenwood and @NeilBack. Highlight was meeting Dave who is raising money for Parkinson’https://t.co/tVry5IxGUk his plan to do all 6 of the Wolf Runs!! Good luck https://t.co/9pEKnVgt0v pic.twitter.com/opeobON82k

— mike tindall (@miketindall13) April 28, 2018

Three months before marrying into royalty, Tindall told the panel on sports quiz show A League Of Their Own: "Princess Anne asked me if I'd have the surgery."

But with a Rugby World Cup around the corner that year and a high probability his famous nose would be broken again, he turned the offer down.

After retiring in 2014, he moved into the studio as a pundit and he has now eventually given into peer pressure and gone under the knife.

Three years ago he dropped his first hint to the Daily Mirror that he might be forced into the operating theatre.

He said he might have to get the procedure done, and added: "I guess it's something similar to a pug.

"The problem is that if I get it done, will people say I've had it just because I'm doing TV stuff now? Because it's definitely not."

Tindall first broke his nose at 5 when he collided in a dodgem car and headbutted the steering wheel.

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