Gary Lineker

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	== Shows ==		== Shows ==
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		+	[[Have I Got News for You]] (guest host)
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		+	[[Sitting on a Fortune]]
	[[They Think it's All Over]] (team captain)		[[They Think it's All Over]] (team captain)
	[[We are the Champions]]		[[We are the Champions]]
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		+	[[Masterchef Goes Large|Masterchef]] (participant, 2010 Sport Relief special)
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	==Trivia==		==Trivia==
-	Sometimes credited as [[Des Lynam]]. It says so on IMDb, so it must be true.	+	He has been awarded honorary degrees from both Leicester University (his home town) and Loughborough University (just up the road). He's also a Freeman of the city of Leicester and is allowed to herd his cattle through the Haymarket Centre any time he likes. Except after 8pm when it's closed, obviously.
-	He has been awarded honorary degrees from both Leicester University (his home town) and Loughborough University (just up the road). He's also a Freeman of the city of Leicester and is allowed to herd his cattle through the Haymarket Centre any time he likes.	+	Stars in a long-running series of ads for Leicester-based snackfood purveyors, Walkers.
-	Stars in a long-running series of ads for Leicester-based snackfood purveyors, Walkers.	+	Thanks to his spells playing for foreign football clubs, he speaks fluent Spanish and Japanese.
	==Contact==		==Contact==

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Current revision as of 11:39, 28 November 2021

Biography

Oh come on, you must know who Gary Lineker is. Cheerful chappy, likes a bit of a kickabout, obsessed with potato snacks. Yeah, him. Since retiring as the nice man of English football, he's become the nice man of sports presentation for the BBC.

Trivia

He has been awarded honorary degrees from both Leicester University (his home town) and Loughborough University (just up the road). He's also a Freeman of the city of Leicester and is allowed to herd his cattle through the Haymarket Centre any time he likes. Except after 8pm when it's closed, obviously.

Stars in a long-running series of ads for Leicester-based snackfood purveyors, Walkers.

Thanks to his spells playing for foreign football clubs, he speaks fluent Spanish and Japanese.

Contact

c/o SFX Sports Group, 35/36 Grosvenor Street, London, W1K 4QX

Web links

Wikipedia entry

Internet Movie Database entry

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