Mike Tindall - I'm a Celebrity

[Arnaquer]

Rumours circulating that he's signed up for the next series of I'm a Celebrity.
I know he and Zara have to make their own money but I find this tasteless and tacky.
Puts me in mind of the Royal It's a Knockout.
Surely they can't be that desperate for cash?

I don’t respond to aggressive people .

I don’t respond to aggressive people

Well you just did! Three times. Why do you think it’s aggressive to correct someone misusing Maori language? What’s the issue with that?

I really wonder why Mike T is doing the show. Unless the payout is super big. The DM estimates he's getting 150K which doesn't seem a lot to me for the combination of horrible trials and the possibility you make an absolute tit of yourself.

I wonder if he's trying to get into more entertainment TV work and an agent has advised this is a good launch pad.

Can you see Princess Anne and Zara grabbing a takeaway and watching the show together?

He must be trying to build up an entertainment career.

I think MT has a very popular podcast already. Selling out live events in biggish venues so he definitely has a following ( not a royal following more young men 20-40 age range so it might bring them to the show as a demograph they are probably not natural TV watchers)

Yes I can see why the show wants him he ticks the male / sports / lad demographic with the added bonus that he might drop some juicy Royal gossip at the same time.

I think the risk vs benefit scale is close for him though - lots of opportunity to look like an idiot and piss off all your powerful in-laws at the same time.

Matt Hancock has said he’s doing it because he wants a TV career next - so maybe that’s the motivation for most of them.

the possibility you make an absolute tit of yourself. I think that's the point of the show and I don't think he cares if he does or not.

What’s your beef with dwarf throwing ? Dwarves can decide to participate or not - wind your neck in.

Dwarves can decide to participate or not
😂

she has forged her own career as an equestrian which has involved from time to time commercial arrangements with eg Jaguar Land Rover adverts. Why shouldn’t each of them pursue any activities to make money?

Equestrian sport is pretty much rich people sport. The cost in buying horses, stabling, feeding, training, vet fees, travel etc that is involved in being an equestrian is pretty high.

So it’s not a sport that each rider forges on their own. They need substantial money behind them, at least until they start acquiring sponsors.

petulant demands and tantrums.

Thats just gossip isn’t it? I mean we don’t know for sure that Charles is difficult, loses his na na with personal assistants, and has some poor attendant carrying and installing Charles’s own personal toilet seat wherever he travels.

Bollocks is it!!!
Plenty of people work their way up. Working for rides, borrowing horses and doing what you have to do to learn.
Most riders Zara included don't own the horses they compete. They build a reputation and people send their horses to be competed - in the same way racehorse owners don't ride their horses in the races.
Horses don't give a damn who you are or if your royal or famous. To succeed in eventing you have to be damn good. You have to work hard, train hard and develop food relationships with your horses. You can't buy that. You have to earn it. Zara is very well respected in eventing circles and that says a lot
I have seen Zara at events. I have watched how hard she works. I've seen first hand her relationships with her horses.

Anything horse related is definitely for the well off.
Im working class and I didn't know anyone growing up who had their own horse or afforded riding lessons.

My sister has her own horse - always has since her teens when she rented one and stabled it with the local farmer. This was rural Scotland 40 years ago, definitely not a high end place!. There are horses and horses - hers have always been hardy moor ponies that live outside, but she’s at the bottom of the sliding scale. She worked in the racing stables for a long time and got her jockeys license, and it’s definitely a rich person’s game when you get to the level Zara etc are at - you don’t do that on moor ponies or through mucking out for free (unless you happen to know people who have the kind of horses Zara rides - in which case, the chances are you’re not living on an inner city council estate). Of course you have to be good to get to Olympic level, that goes without saying, but the calibre of horses you ride from a young age has a massive impact on how far and how quickly you progress. The chances of you even seeing a horse close up diminishes rapidly in areas of deprivation.

Bollocks right back at ya Moonypadfootprongs.

Your take on the democratic nature of the equestrian sport is absolute bollocks. You need money. Some poor person somewhere may have got a lucky break, anything is possible. An exception to the rule. But the odds are stacked too high against a person without a sizeable purse. there’s big money in those horses. Even If you have got a horse, and can stable it in your backyard stable, there’s all the other stuff mentioned by me and other posters. Just to get on the circuit you need a truck, float, money to travel. You can’t hold down a normal job - you need money behind you.

Im not disparaging Zara’s talent. Just that she had a bit of a leg up and it should be recognised. This is an ‘exclusive’ sport in the real meaning of ‘exclusive.’

The affairs , if they happened(I wouldn’t know), are between him and his wife.

The drunk driving is shameful. Taken from the Guardian January 9, 2009 (apologies I can’t work out how to link the guardian) .

“Victoria Griffiths, prosecuting, said the officers began following the Range Rover, which appeared to be exceeding the 70mph speed limit.

She said the vehicle looked to be being driven "erratically", touching the white lines on either side of the lane, before it swerved across all three lanes into Reading service station.”

Further down in the news item the magistrate notes that it was fortunate he didn’t kill someone.

I have no respect for someone who drink drives. But I also believe in second chances. He seems to have learned his lesson and paid the fines, lived with a 3 year driving ban and did some court ordered course. But if some members of mn want to hold him up as an example of how a royal family in-law should behave, that example really shouldn’t have a drink driving conviction in their not too distant past.

When the dwarf throwing hit the news, I honestly thought there was a photo of it. I honestly think I saw one but maybe my imagination or perhaps it was a pic of the event but not the team

Anyway, if it exists, it will be erased now of course...now he's a member of the RF by marriage

I didn’t know about the drink driving. That’s really not good. As for affairs, first i have heard of it. I know he was photographed with a woman in a bar early in the marriage when he was in NZ or Australia on tour, there was no evidence it was an affair. What were the other affairs?

The locals have not been remotely offended. "They were great lads, not throwing the midgets, it was all light-hearted, good-humoured fun," insisted Rich Deane, manager of Queenstown's Altitude Bar. So that's all right then. Prince Harry wasn't even there.

The next thing he knows his captain, Mike Tindall, is splashed across the Sun and the internet is awash with pictures of visibly worse-for-wear England players messing around late at night.

And palace staffers in a panic trying to contact Mike - after it leaked. But Prince Harry, the writer noted, wasn’t there. lol.

Taken from the Guardian Sept 15 2O11.

Yes, the internet wouldnt just break, it’d melt. Double standards, yeah.

Imo, People need to stop comparing women. They are not doing the woman who they are presenting as ‘good’ any favours. And generally not doing any women any favours at all. It’s destructive to all women.

You’ve quoted me midnightconstellation so I just want to say I wrote, ‘The affairs, if they happened, (I wouldn’t know), are between him and his wife.

Didn’t the person using an inappropriate phrase to WahoneToa apologise? I can’t see an apology, I’ve scrolled and I can’t find it. There is no apology? WTAF?

I love the idea of Princess Anne and Zara putting the kids to bed and settling in with a takeaway curry every week 😆

You'd think Mike & Zara's kids are too young to watch Daddy eating live scorpions.

Why on earth would I apologise for a perfectly appropriate use of a language that I have every right to use to someone with whom I (obviously mistakenly) thought I had something in common? The phrase I used was no different to using a positive emoji. I’m not remotely interested in WahineToa just looking for an excuse to be aggressive by purportedly gatekeeping an entire language.