He stayed loyal to the BBC for 25 years, even when he was told to stop taking parties on political issues.
But now Gary Lineker is finally transferring to the opposition, because he is ready to appear in a new ITV show.
The match of the day presenter is the first star that is confirmed for the new Showassemblage, so that he is being questioned by a group of people who are autistic, neurodification and/or learning disabled.
Mr Lineker, 64, has been at the BBC since 1999 and presents the competition of the day and became their best -paid presenter who was 1.3 million from last year.
Plan to take a step back from his role at the end of the season this year, his time at the BBC has not been so smooth sailing.
In 2022, the BBC discovered that Lineker had brought his impartial guidelines to comments he had made in February in which he had asked the then secretary Liz Truss whether her party would “hand over their donations from Russian donors” after the invasion of Ukraine.
In 2023, the former English football player was asked to 'return' of the popular highlights of his comments that compare the language used to launch a new policy of government asylum seekers with those of Germany from the 1930s.
Later he returned to the presenting role after the row had requested a boycott by his colleague football pundits and commentators, where he touched TV and radio suspension about the BBC.
Gary Lineker is the first star confirmed for a new showassemblage with in the lead role in ITV
Mr Lineker, 64, has been at the BBC since 1999 presenting the competition of the day and becomes their best -paid presenter
Other celebrities for the ITV show are David Tennant, 53, Danny Dyer, 47 and Jade Thirlwall, 32 (file image)
Now in a movement that inevitably seemed, he has joined the rival side of ITV.
Every episode of the meeting will be forced to put everything aside what they have ever learned from their media trainers, while they each have their most 'honest interview so far'.
Other celebrities such as David Tennant, 53, Danny Dyer, 47 and Jade Thirlwall, 32, are also confirmed.
In the new release, ITV said: 'After a long and illustrious career and both a golden boat-winning football player as a top sport, and with his term of office as the longest serving presenter of the match of the day that ends this summer, there is no end to the stories that Lineker could share.
“Carefully considered PR Fluff will not cut it in this show, and the celebrities can expect a lot of disaster and surprises as soon as they get into the hotseat.”
At the end of last year, Lineker revealed that he recently rejected the opportunity to appear on a large ITV reality show.
“You know last week that I received requests to go on celebrity Big Brother,” Lineker told Alan Shearer and Micah Richards on the rest is a football podcast.
Lineker added: 'My agent sent it on and then he replied:' Oh, yes. Gary's reimbursement is £ 50 million! '
“Of course he did it completely as a joke. And they came back, said, “Oh, that's a bit … that's not within our budget.” '
