David announced his engagement to his former 'Neighbours' co-star, Natalie Hoflin. They started dating while working on the soap, before moving to Los Angeles in 2008. They married in Warburton on 4 January 2013.

[on Z: The Beginning of Everything (2015)] If someone came up to me and said, "Who was F. Scott Fitzgerald?" I would say he was a famous American novelist who wrote The Great Gatsby. Beyond that thought, I wouldn't really know much about him. We studied him at school in Australia, but to be honest, when I was reading it at 15 or 16 years old, I wasn't really that interested in The Great Gatsby. It kind of went over my head, but funnily enough, I remember it, and I don't really remember a lot from that time period.