 He said: "Australia is a special place yeah I met Zara in Sydney. There is no holiday planned at the moment afterwards. If there was I wouldn't tell you either!" The couple first met in 2003 at the Manly Wharf bar in Sydney while Mike was playing for England during that year's Rugby World Cup and Zara was on a gap year. Mike had been drowning his sorrows after being dropped from the team and they happened to be in the same bar - with some crediting Prince Harry as introducing them. Mike arriving in Australia to take part in I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here ( James Gourley/REX/Shutterstock) It is believed that Mike got Zara's number from his teammate Austin Healy and they kept in touch, becoming 'official' in 2004. Now they've been married for 11 years and have three children - Mia, Lena and Lucas. Meanwhile, speaking for the first time about signing up Tindall, 44, who helped England win the 2003 Rugby World Cup said: "It should be good fun, why not? It is always worth a go isn't it." Told it was the first big reality series a royal had done since It's A Knockou){kind=link}
Mike Tindall, the husband of Princess Anne’s daughter Zara, who is also a niece of King Charles has been confirmed as taking part in the new series of the hit ITV show I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here
Mike Tindall told of his and wife Zara’s special romantic connection to Australia ahead of his stint on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here.
The former England rugby player, whose wife Zara is a granddaughter of the late Queen and a niece of King Charles, has arrived Down Under ready for the start of the show in just over a week’s time. It is the first time that a member of the Royal Family ever has taken part in the show, which takes place in the middle of the Australian outback. And on arriving in Brisbane in time for the series, Mike reminisced how he and Zara, who married in 2011, first met in Australia in 2003.
He said: “Australia is a special place yeah I met Zara in Sydney. There is no holiday planned at the moment afterwards. If there was I wouldn’t tell you either!”
The couple first met in 2003 at the Manly Wharf bar in Sydney while Mike was playing for England during that year’s Rugby World Cup and Zara was on a gap year.