Gary Lineker He will leave the BBC after 26 years with the issueth, the Emitius confirmed.
Lineker will leave after his final Match of the day show Instead of staying to present future coverage, including the Men’s 2026 World Cup. Exit to 64-year-old comes days after it apologized for the involuntary sharing The pro-Palestinian position of social media that had a picture of the rats.
“Gary Lineker will leave his show of the role after the conclusion of the day of the day for the season 2024/25,” read the statement. “It will not be part of the BBC coverage in 2026. World Cup or next seasonal FA Cup coverage.”
Lineker said no “would never knowingly share anything anti-Semitic” after returning the video on his Instagram account from the group of Palestine Group, called “Zionism was explained in two minutes.”
Post He included a picture of the ratsWhich Line said he was unaware. Rats were used to represent anti-Semitic propaganda during history, including the Nazis in the 1930s Germany.
The apology of the lineker followed the publication of the interview with Daily telegraph in which Lineker said that the Israeli response to terrorist attacks was 7. October was “completely from the proportion.”
In the comments that were made before sharing pro-Palestinian posted on social media, the former attacker of England said that someone who was silent in Gaza was “almost complicated” and called Israel’s action. “
Lineker was supposed to leave Match of the day At the end of the season, But he planned to continue by presenting some of the BBC football coverage until the end of the World Cup next summer.
However, former post for Social Media, the English attacker in England has reopened previous tensions with the broadcaster due to its impartial guidelines and allegedly disturbed some colleagues of the BBC.
Said the source Sun: “It’s a heart attack by an extraordinary broadcasting career.”
Tim Davie, General Manager of the BBC, called the staff to “follow the rules” when an impartiality in the vigilance of the apology and its revost on Instagram.
BBC Briefly remove the line line from the hosting Match of the day In March 2023. After compared the government language used in starting the asylum seeker policy until the 1930s Germany.
He did not stop to stop criticizing the Gender Non-Independence Guidelines, stating, “Why should I not have an opinion on things? I’m a bloody football player that turned into a sports presenter.”
Last month, Lineker said he thought Senior executives on the BBC wanted to deviate and in a recent interview with Daily telegraph It seems to criticize the new BBC sports director, Alex Kay-Jelski.
He signed a new one-year contract to remain available to host a 2026 male cup. Years and confirmed that he would not take another presentation of the role, and not focusing on his podcast empire with Goalhanger.