Engagement and a sore knee for rugby star

Ashton, a fellow England player of Otley-born Tindall, popped the question to nanny Melissa Uzelac as they enjoyed a break in New York.

But the sportsman told Hello! magazine that the proposal took a toll on his joints, saying: “My knee was sore from bending down – I must be getting old.”

He said he had long been planning the proposal to his girlfriend of six-and-a-half years, during the holiday.

“I’d booked the trip a while ago, and had in the back of my mind that I’d ask Melissa to marry me,” he said. My family and friends were giving me stick about getting on with it.”