Former rugby star Mike Tindall has twisted nose fixed ahead of Royal Wedding
The 2003 Rugby World Cup winner first broke his nose aged five and suffered at least eight breaks during his playing career.
Tuesday 1 May 2018 19:03, UK
Former England rugby captain and Royal husband Mike Tindall has had an operation to straighten his famously crooked nose.
Tindall, 39, who first broke his nose aged five, was photographed on Saturday taking part in an endurance run in East Sussex.
He tweeted: "Great day at the Wolf Run with @WillGreenwood and @NeilBack. Highlight was meeting Dave who is raising money for Parkinson's.me his plan to do all 6 of the Wolf Runs!! Good luck."
The appendage, which previously twisted to his left, appeared almost completely straight.
During his 12-year playing career, the former Bath and Gloucester centre broke his nose at least eight times.
Team-mates joked that the 2003 Rugby World Cup winner had a face like "a relief map of the Pennines" due to its twisted bridge.
He considered having surgery before his marriage to Zara Phillips in 2011, after her mother, Princess Anne, offered to pay for the surgery.
Tindall told the panel on sports quiz show A League Of Their Own: "Princess Anne asked me if I'd have the surgery."
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He turned down the offer but, after retiring from playing in 2014, admitted the following year that he was going to have to get it fixed because he was suffering persistent breathing difficulties.
Tindall, who has become a pundit and reality TV star, told the Daily Mirror: "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."
The couple, who are already parents to three-year-old Mia, announced in January they are expecting another child a year after enduring a miscarriage.
Tindall's new nose will be on show next month as he and his wife are among the guests at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
