Gary Lineker's life away from MOTD - beauty pageant ex, sex life admission, £4m home

Gary Lineker's footballing exploits and post-playing vocation person usually been the taxable of treatment erstwhile it comes to the Match of the Day big alternatively than his beingness distant from the sport

Gary Lineker hasn't shied distant from opening up astir his enactment beingness and whether he's a instrumentality of dating apps.

The Match of the Day presenter is usually chatting distant astir each things shot connected BBC's flagship amusement oregon his podcast, The Rest Is Football, alongside colleagues Alan Shearer and Micah Richards.

While the ex-Tottenham and Barcelona striker isn't acrophobic to authorities his opinions connected non-football subjects specified arsenic politics, the taxable of his backstage beingness is thing helium hasn't regularly shared but has opted to speech astir erstwhile asked.

For idiosyncratic who erstwhile appeared connected MOTD successful conscionable his boxers - acknowledgment to Leicester City's seemingly improbable Premier League triumph successful 2016 - revelations surrounding intimate relationships would look to beryllium little daunting.

Beauty pageant ex

Lineker began dating histrion and exemplary Danielle Bux - who is 18 years younger than him - a twelvemonth aft helium divided up with his archetypal woman Michelle Cockayne. The brace got hitched 2 years aboriginal successful 2009 aft they were acceptable up connected a unsighted day but their matrimony lasted six years arsenic they divorced successful 2016.

The divided was reportedly owed to Lineker, who has 4 children, not wanting immoderate much children but contempt their divorce, they stay connected bully presumption with the erstwhile footballer enjoying a adjacent narration with his ex-wife and stepdaughter Ella.

Speaking to the Mirror successful September 2019, Lineker explained: "Danielle and I are champion mates, we inactive talk 3 times a day, we substance each the time. When she comes to London she stays with me, and erstwhile I spell to LA I spot her."

Sex beingness revelations

Lineker hasn't delved excessively heavy successful discussing his beingness betwixt the sheets but did assertion successful a 2021 interrogation that he's not arsenic disquieted astir intimacy as helium erstwhile was successful his younger years.

"I americium inactive single," helium told the Times. "I americium not going down that route! I person been determination earlier and tried to explicate myself and I got slaughtered by my friends."

Lineker insisted that he's comfy surviving alone, having not dabbled with dating apps but remaining unfastened to uncovering emotion erstwhile again. "I’ve been joined astir of my big life," helium added.

"Two truly bully marriages, I’m friends with both. Danielle’s benignant of my champion mate, truthful I person that pistillate transportation with her. I’m not saying whether it’ll change. It mightiness do. But astatine the infinitesimal I’m precise comfortable."

£4million home

On apical of his 16-year nonrecreational shot career, Lineker has banked adjacent much wealth acknowledgment to being the BBC's highest-paid worker arsenic helium rakes successful an yearly wage of £1.35million. While helium primitively hails from Leicester, the 63-year-old present resides successful the westbound London territory of Barnes.

His trendy house, which is reportedly worthy £4m, is located beside the River Thames and is portion of the prosperous borough of Richmond. Including a spacious location gym which Lineker puts to bully usage if his Instagram posts are thing to spell by, his abode is kitted retired with a cinema room, modern surviving spaces and a picturesque garden.

His big children

Lineker shares 4 sons with Michelle who are George, 31, Harry, 30, Tobias, 28, and Angus, 26. All 4 didn't travel successful their father's footsteps erstwhile it comes to shot with George delving into concern arsenic the co-founder of Your Business Number, which provides concern numbers to entrepreneurs.

Harry works astatine his father's accumulation company, Goalhanger Films Ltd, wherever they specialise successful sporting documentaries portion Tobias has made a surviving arsenic a palmy DJ. Like his older brother, Angus opted to participate the concern world, wherever helium has go a palmy improvement manager.

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