Gary Lineker: 'I'd never do a reality TV show!'

Gary Lineker: 'I'd never do a reality TV show!' (Image credit: PA Wire/Press Association Images)

Unlike his wife Danielle, Gary Lineker will never do a reality TV show. The former England star and football pundit says he wouldn't even consider the idea unless his career needed a boost. Gary said: "I don't fancy doing a reality TV show, and if you see me on one then you know things have gone horribly wrong!" Gary, whose wife Danielle appeared on Hell's Kitchen, added: "Funnily enough I've just started ice-skating with the little one - with Ella - and I've actually found I'm not bad, bizarrely. "So if I had to do one then it would be that, although it's a bit poncey isn't it?!", said Gary, who is stepdad to Danielle's seven-year-old daughter Ella. "I certainly, under no circumstances, would ever consider doing the jungle (in I'm a Celebrity...), unless I completely lost my mind. I couldn't think of anything worse!," he said. As for Strictly Come Dancing, he said he would like to see his wife on it: "I can't dance at all! I'm completely useless, so I wouldn't go on that show. I could possibly see Danielle wanting to do Strictly. "I'm sure if she had a go at the dancing, she'd like it - it's nice and glam. And she looks like she moves all right to me..."

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