Gary Lineker: The Private Battles Behind a Public Life
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Davina and Lineker who linked up so well for begin again.
What new TV show is Gary Lineker launching and why does it matter?
Gary Lineker has etched his trademark.
How did Gary build Goalhanger from scratch into a thriving podcast studio?
And Gary Lenicker.
What was the impact of George’s leukemia diagnosis on Gary’s family?
Relishing the service.
How did Gary’s childhood and his dad’s belief shape his football career?
That one was a gift.
Why did Gary decide to leave the BBC after 30 years?
But he was there.
How does Gary view his two marriages and divorces as successes?
Superbly done.
Why is Gary comfortable being single and what does he look for in future love?
Let it go. The chances today are all ending up in the back of the net. MAC Gary Linaker has pounced. And now the England supporters are making themselves heard.
Gary's coming home.
This is so exciting. So first of all I just want to let you know, Gary Lineker, man of the people. See here. He's got a taxi. Forget the man with the paper. He's not at all. Look, he's he's giving a tip. Man of the people I take that back.
It's down.
I know. I know I am. I'm I'm not laughing now.
Come on, Gary!
I'm quite excited. Can you tell?
You seem a little bit excited.
It's just that I've known you forever.
Yeah.
But I don't know you. Do you know what I mean? Yeah,
it's a public art thing, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. That we have met occasionally over the years. Yeah.
We've done various shows together and we saw each other at the NTAs last year, which was brilliant. But it's an honor to have you here. I think for somebody to still be relevant in the public eye after such a long and illustrious career is worth celebrating. Well done. And well done.
Likewise. Still here, we're still here. We're still going. Still punchy.
So I'd like to talk to you first off, because you've got this new show on ITV.
Mm-hmm
and um I was a bit like You know, wh how many how many ideas can there be for T V? How how unique can it be? Oh my God, I got presenters envy.
Did you?
It's
so good. It's a lot of fun.
So tell us a bit about it. It's on IT V.
It's on IT V, it'd be coming in September, early September I think. And what day? What time? Saturdays and Sundays for four weeks. Uh prime time, of course. I mean
Obviously this is Gary Linnicott, obviously. And you don't have to do anything except for enjoy it.
Um that's very true. It's it's a bit it's um it's watching people mostly have fun, but also face their fears and and and all sorts of different challenges. So it's basically we've got ten celebrities and these ten big yellow boxes, a bit like telephone boxes, but you can't see out of them. So they wield these trucks around these these boxes around the country and the celebrities Inside the box don't know when the box opens, where they are, what they're about to face, and it could be anything. And I I don't want to give obviously too much away. But um the some of the challenges are, you know, you know the I three sixty at Bright, for example, uh we managed to get one of them on top of that in the in
the sky and they walk out and it's like, wow, what have I got to do? And there's also a challenge after that. So um you know there's there's they they come out of the boxes are in a in front of a butlins crowd and all all sorts of Yeah, I won't tell all of them but um but they They really went for it and um I mean it is the kind of
show you have to throw yourself into, I think, as a celebrity.
Definitely.
They are they are having to take themselves out of their comfort zones. And they're usually used to public arenas, but this is next level what you put them through.
Well, some some of them. Some and some of them are actually just a bit of fun, or some of them are actually a little bit thoughtful. They've got to work themselves through something. So it's not all horrible, but there's a always a degree of the fear of the unknown as they step out of the box. I had a lot of it was something totally different. I hadn't really done anything like that before. Um I've obviously hosted shows outside of football but but Something like this was s sort of gamey reality shows. was different. Yeah. Yeah, I mean you've done lots of and
it's it's a huge um it's on such a huge scale and you are having to think Um out of the box.
Indeed. Very good. Boom.
Do you want me to write for you? You could you could do it. I mean there are a million puns, right? So many puns. Have a go at that. Um I mean, you've had such a varied career 'cause this is Um, you're you're in your sixties now and you are presenting like a mega entertainment TV program.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–0:06
2
What new TV show is Gary Lineker launching and why does it matter?
0:06–0:12
3
How did Gary build Goalhanger from scratch into a thriving podcast studio?
0:12–0:14
4
What was the impact of George’s leukemia diagnosis on Gary’s family?
0:14–0:16
5
How did Gary’s childhood and his dad’s belief shape his football career?
0:16–0:18
6
Why did Gary decide to leave the BBC after 30 years?
0:18–0:20
7
How does Gary view his two marriages and divorces as successes?
0:20–0:21
8
Why is Gary comfortable being single and what does he look for in future love?
0:21–58:01
Speakers
1 identifiedMore from Begin Again with Davina McCall
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