Mike Tindall is one part of a very popular rugby podcast called The Good, the Bad & the Rugby. Tindall does the pod with James Haskell and Alex Payne. Rugby is much more popular in the UK, and they truly have millions of listeners. The pod is such a success that the men have written a book about what has happened to them behind the scenes as they’ve recorded their successful pod. To promote the book, the three men were interviewed by the Telegraph, and of course they had a lot of sh-tty, toxic sh-t to say. Did I mention that they’re all royalists? Mike Tindall is “allowed” to profit from his royal connections because he and pod bros play the game and stick to royalist talking points.
Haskell on traditional masculinity: ‘Society needs people like us. Being strong, masculine, protective, loud, dominant: men like us play a role, you can’t deny it. I’m unapologetic about it now. I’m here, and I’m not going anywhere.’
Tindall on marrying into the royal family: ‘Believe it or not, marrying into the Royal family was pretty easy for me. They were always nice to me, and I was always nice to them. Simple really.’
Haskell on the reality of life in a royal castle. ‘I expected big trays loaded with scones and exotic fruit tarts. Instead, I got a couple of broken rich teas and what appeared to be a half-eaten malted milk – a leftover from a box of Family Circle biscuits… Luckily, I’d brought along an M&S sandwich, but when I started eating it, someone appeared and shooed me into a corridor. They’d been on red alert since our MD spilt coffee on what was probably a priceless Chippendale cabinet.’
Tindall’s bond with Prince George is particularly close: ‘George loves his football. I’ve played numerous times in the garden with him. He’s passionate about Aston Villa, too. Wherever he is, he’ll sit down and watch that game. They’re just a family who love sport. Catherine loves her running.’
They don’t like Omid Scobie: Haskell takes a pointed swipe in the book at Omid Scobie, obsequious chronicler of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, calling him a ‘very odd bloke’. ‘Royal fans can be mental,’ Haskell adds. ‘We all know that American royal fans are f—king nuts, especially Scobieites.’ Scobie fuelled a pile-on against Tindall when, in 2022, he criticised the former England centre for ‘cashing in’ on his royal connections by appearing on I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!. ‘I don’t even have access to my Twitter,’ says Tindall today. ‘I just [get] tagged in by anyone who’s talking about anything. It’s so random, what I have to sift through. If there’s any story about me or my kids, it will get entangled into a web of something else, and I’m tagged into reading all this crap. That’s the world we live in. Some have got nothing better to do than bag people.’
“We all know that American royal fans are f—king nuts, especially Scobieites.” Hm. Sounds like they’re mad that Americans defended Meghan and Harry. Sounds like they’re mad that Americans don’t “understand” why Mike Tindall is allowed to be tacky and crass and use his royal connections for profit with no official criticism. “Marrying into the Royal family was pretty easy for me. They were always nice to me, and I was always nice to them. Simple really.” It helps that he was a white British man marrying an untitled cousin, as opposed to a Black American woman marrying the most popular prince in the realm. Ya think they got treated differently? Ya think they were held to different standards within the family and outside of the family?
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- The Sovereign’s Garden Party at Buckingham Palace, London Featuring: Mike Tindall meets guests Where: London, United Kingdom When: 21 May 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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Let me guess, it’s because you’re one of nature’s aristocrats, yes?
He wasn’t but he is a straight, white, English male that married to an insignificant “royal” (if we can even call Zara that since she has no titles). He was never going to have a difficult time being a married-in
Maybe not exactly “straight”… https://x.com/ruby19838297793/status/1846251334401507712?s=61&t=9TaAsfwrl1H_hiFD2SEi3A
Mike Tindall married a low level, non-working royal. He himself is no looker, boorish, thugish, and unintelligent. Neither of them were ever any threat to WanK or C&C. Besides, he is a world class ass kisser. So of course he’s had an easy way of it.
@PC, I think the term use to describe Mike Tindall is summed up in one word: bellend.
Its never difficult for a white cis gender male from Europe…duh
Name drops George. George would be wise to steer clear of him. I wonder how the royals felt about Mike’s behavior on the reality show.
All this royal propaganda about how wonderful Tindall is will backfire, just watch this space
Another example of a mediocre white man falling upwards and telling us how easy it was.
When you can publicly cheat on your wife and she stays with you, you definitely have it easy! He has no idea.
For the RF, cheating is a feature not a flaw – and the RF self-selects for mediocrity. Nobody is jealous of or feels threatened by Tindall.
Which part made him so easy for the Royals to accept: him being a white make jerk (much like the majority of the Windsor men); him being an alleged sex pest on his reality show cough like a not insignificant number of royals past and present; or him being rather stupid which had to have made he and William fast friends.
I’m just glad he finally got his nose fixed. I wonder who paid for that? The older pictures with his nose smeared sideways across his face due to his rugby injuries made me nauseous.
100% Congratulations, England! You welcomed a crass white English man, and tortured an intelligent American bi-racial woman. Please be for fucking real the next time you are tempted to say you all welcomed Meghan.
Christine for president!
Good grief these people are chronically obtuse. First James Middleton and ” Kate was super nice to my white wife, she can’t be cold and racist!”, and now this dude. Will there be a follow up on how Diddy didn’t assault them so he must be a nice guy? And I hope all these people who are American and fall all over themselves talking about how Americans really hate Harry and Meghan and spend their time in YouTube and Twitter being horrific to Meghan see how these people still look down their noses at you.
He sounds like he’s bragging and an opportunist. I doubt he’s close to george. He does not mention any of the other Cambridge kids just the direct heir.
If you see pap pics of him and George over the years you will see that he IS actually close to him. He didn’t lie about that. Mike sounds like a pretty awful man though so God knows what will become of the George with people like him around.
Closeness is,relative. I doubt George spends much time with him. And Mike is treating the heir more special
Maybe this differs per culture and country but personally, when I was young, i didn’t run up to relatives i barely saw, hugging them and being carried around on their shoulders. I was also never particularly close to their children.
Say what you want but the Waleses children and the Tindalls children do seem like they spend quality time together often.
@Tessa exactly, one thing about Mike is he knows what side his bread is buttered on. Cozy up to who will be in charge when you are elderly and need one of those palace apartments because you can’t afford a place of your own…
Racist white man fits right in to insignificant role in racist white institution?
I am shocked.
I want all of the (white) married-ins to keep talking about easy it was joining that family because it only throws M’s racist treatment into sharper relief for all to see. If all the white ones had it “so easy” what was it about Meghan that warranted a well-funded and well-fed international smear campaign? If it looks like racism and smells like racism chances are its…racism.
Mike Tindall lacks self-awareness and Haskell is so toxic that his wife filed for divorce last year. Just a terrible interview.
Yeah the whole “I, a white person, was welcomed into the royal family with open arms” isn’t the flex they think it is.
And I’ll always remember Tindall hiding in a corner when Harry was talking to his wife. Coward.
Also who is this Haskell person talking about living in a palace?
“They were always nice to me, and I was always nice to them”. Translation: I looked up to them so they could look down on me and we all lived happily ever after.
Wonder if Mike thinks being “nice” includes groping women (like theTV show employee) in public? Would he have been this “nice” to one of his royal (by marriage) relatives?
Wow, I’d never heard of 2 of these people until just minutes ago, and already I loathe them all. Declaring your he-man masculinity is only going to make everybody question it, guys.
He reminds me of Morris Townsend the opportunist from the heiress.
The Heiress is one of my ALL TIME FAVES ✨️ & I WISH Mike was like Morris! Morris wanted the finer things in life without working for them…but AT LEAST…he was charming…sophisticated…he wouldn’t have done anything to embarass Catherine or their elevated station in society…Morris wasn’t cruel to Catherine…he even indulged her…they even stated that in the movie…especially during a time period when marrying for love wasn’t the societal norm…Catherine in The Heiress would have been okay…more than okay..if she hadn’t been ultimately and irrevocably broken by her Father’s cruelty…To me Mike Tinsdall is the opposite of Morris…and ignorant boorish Man who is an embarrassment! Thank you for giving me a reason to talk about one of my faves🥰
Morris stood her up when she was waiting for him so they could elope. And her Aunt told her she should not have told Morris her father would disinherit her.
Yes, Morris was an elegant man. Not crude like Mike. I think Catherine reached her limits. If Morris had eloped with her the first time. They probably could have been OK together.
Are you talking about Monty Cliff or Morris Towndsend? LOL. Morris was born into the NY aristo class but James’ original version was not as classy as the one portrayed by Cliff. Regardless, the movie is far better than the book.
Catherine’s Aunt knew the score…that Morris wanted an easy life …not to be broke…and that’s one of the true tragedies of the story…that Catherine didn’t understand the REAL score from the beginning then she would have told Morris that she was rich in her own right from her Mama…it is stated in the movie that if she knew Morris only wanted her for her money she was cool with that…she even told that to her Father in that last convo where she drugged him for ABSOLUTE FILTH😱…which is why I adore that film so much…Catherine EVOLVED and had AGENCY…that last scene with her and her Father’s was some of the GREATEST acting and writing EVA!
I love that movie. Her father wanted his daughter around when he was dying but she wanted nothing to do with him. She had wanted his love her entire life but she reached her limit after how coldly he treated her. The acting was superb in that film.
I absolutely adore that movie Olivia de Haviland gave such a powerful performance and Montgomery Clift was magnificent!!😍
Diana would give this man a talking to. She was an aristo one of them and she was treated badly. Mike has no clue.
So the world needs men like him? Oh, so he served his country in the military, or as an emergency responder, or a volunteer helping feed and shelter children or the elderly or animals, or teaching, or somehow giving back to his community? No? Oh, so he’s an advocate for women’s rights? No? Oh, he’s just an over fed, bombastic, retired rugby player who had no issue sexually assaulting that poor young woman in the Australian set of his dumb TV show? Yeah, we don’t actually need anyone like him, but thanks for the offer.
Sending out all the white people to say they or their white partners never had a negative experience with the RF isn’t the flex they think it is. It doesn’t cast doubt on or debunk meghans experience as they seem to think it does. Rather it supports it.
Whew, where to start? I continue to not care if Tindall cashes in. Whatever do his thing. The issue is Megan gets ridiculed for a jam of jar. That’s the issue, more than Mike himself. But way to take it personally. And wow, Omid really gets under their skin?? As opposed to Clarkson or Levin or Bower? Huh, wonder why. And finally there’s a lot of cheaters in the RF so I imagine he was welcomed right in. Wasn’t he caught out in pictures cheating on Zara before and after the wedding?
These two sound like real life twats. F them both and their ugly asses.
Pretty sure it was easy for you. You are male, white and dumb. Meghan is Black, female and smart.
This!
Haskell on traditional masculinity:
“Society needs people like us. Being strong, masculine, protective, loud, dominant: men like us play a role, you can’t deny it. I’m unapologetic about it now. I’m here, and I’m not going anywhere.”
JFC 🤯🤬 I’m assuming he’s a mate of Tindall or on their podcast thing
Ugh! I’m so sorry to all women, my fellow LGBTQ fam and to anyone else who felt triggered or rage at this statement
This Quasimodo looking ass bum. He and his tacky wife can kick rocks.
Hmmm. These comments are very telling, aren’t they? First, the bit about how marrying in was pretty easy – I mean, hes a white British man who married the….what was Zara at the time, the 11th in line to the throne? And now she’s even farther down than that because of all the children from that generation. Zara was never a working royal and has never posed direct competition to Kate or William or Charles. Its kind of like when James was talking about how nice Kate was to his wife when she met her – well Alizee was never competition for Kate so of course she was nice.
Second – white people really have a hard time understanding how their experience does not negate another’s experience, especially that of a POC. I’ve never been followed around in a store by security because of my skin color but I know it happens. But because Mike’s experience was not Meghan’s, it somehow makes her experience less valid.
Third – oh he hates American royal fans? LMAO well his heros William and Kate are obsessed with chasing those American fans so best not to tick them off too much.
Fourth – lordy Scobies book REALLY got under their skin, didn’t it? There must have been a lot of truth in it.
A lot of the American royal fans are actually Meghan fans😂 more than actual fans of the RF so that’s pretty funny. I’m sure he’s got no problem with the American royal fans that show deference to the monarchy. Sounds like he has an issue with anyone who speaks up for Meghan or speaks about her fairly, like scobie has.
The Scobie reference was interesting. It is usually the Meghan haters who went on about Scobie only because he was the only one who was decent to Harry and Meghan and they acted like the book had so many revelations when it really didn’t. That Mike Tindall knows this guy’s name means Scobie was heavily discussed likely from William.
Scobie covered William and Kate for a little bit before Meghan arrived. It’s possible they saw scobie as someone who betrayed them?
Wasn’t that Haskell guy a guest at Meghan and Harry’s wedding? But then, Harry was patron of English rugby.
He was, and has subsequently done interviews about how much Harry has changed and how they aren’t friends anymore. Given what he said about the world needing ” men like him” above, I figured he was one of those people Harry had the scales fall away from his eyes on when Meghan came on the scene. Doesn’t seem very aware to other’s experiences and I would put money on him describing equity in an environment on being ” woke”.
Sophie Winkleman ( Fred Windsor’s wife) gave her two cents about being a married in that has been accepted. Add in James Middleton’s beatification of Kate and it tells me that Oprah, Spare and the Netflix doc landed body blows on Chuck, Cam, Bulliam and KopyKate that they have not recovered from to this day. There must be internal polling showing the monarchy is not really that popular and once again trashing the Sussexes is the distraction.
Here’s my periodic reminder that he’s still accepted even after being caught on camera cheating on Zara less than two months after their wedding.
Congratulations on your easy acceptance to the Bellend Club, sir.
How they keep trying to sell us the “One of us, common man BS, is stale.
Mike, boot licking 24/7/365.
Zara had a miscarriage some years ago , then with the last child, she went into labor quite suddenly and before she had their youngest child, Mike said if it was not a boy they would “try again.”
Didn’t this guy cheat on her? They are very forgiving to him as a family but not H&M….
Why is she still with him? Where is her self-respect…
Can you imagine if this were a woman talking about how “easily” she was able to marry into the Royal family? Or into any aristocratic or ruling family? It makes the Windsors sound like easy marks for golddiggers and fellow grifters.
OK, white dude.
Who cares, you shameless bogan.
Really just a shameless thug …. William
also a thug, Andrew ~ twisted /same and Charles – well, he has Camilla to be the thug ….
the last of the Windsors ~ what a horror show
The BRF and their assorted hangers on still do not understand that they need to shut up.
They are so stupid, all of them.
Open your mouth and stick ya foot in.
Mike is no squeaky clean family man, at all.
Yet, he plays his assigned role as “Comedy Lad” completely.
All while living in the lap of luxury.
Cheating on the wife shortly after the marriage.
Zara stays and plays happy families.
Utter garbage.
These people treat marriage as a joke and then call themselves “Our Betters”
F.O! All of you.
White really is crack sometimes. Not all the time just sometimes
Nice to be reminded, once again, that the patriarchy is alive and well.
Say it isn’t so. A white man married into the racists and misogynistic royal family and it was easy. There is no surprise for anyone with sense or knowledge of this dysfunctional family’s history. He’s as smart as he looks.
I get the sense that it was easy for this guy to marry into the royal family because they pretty much treated him like the unofficial royal mascot or something. The only thing is that he’s not exactly lovable in any stretch of the imagination. He can dress the part, heck even learn how to use the silverware properly, but ultimately he ain’t gonna be one of ’em, and that’s how the royal family like to keep things when it comes to commoner in-laws.