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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