Who Do You Think You Are?: Gary Lineker
9:00 pm - 10:00 pm, Tuesday, April 14 on Really (44)
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Gary Lineker
Season 10, Episode 5
Match of the Day host Gary Lineker studies the life of his great-great-great-grandfather James Pratt, discovering he was a poacher in Victorian England and served time in Leicester Prison. Gary wants to find out why his ancestor became a repeat offender, and also get to the bottom of how Thomas Billingham, a forebear who was the son of an illiterate gardener, ended up as a highly skilled legal clerk
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Cast & Crew
Gary Lineker
(Contributor)
Cherie Lunghi
(Narrator)
Alex Graham
(Executive producer)
Colette Flight
(Series producer)
Tom McCarthy
(Director)
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Did You Know..
Gary Lineker
(Contributor)
Born:
November 30, 1960
in
Leicester
Best Known For:
Being an England football hero, a TV pundit and crisps promoter.
Early-life:
Born Gary Winston Lineker on November 30, 1960, in Leicester, where his parents were greengrocers. He has a younger brother, Wayne, who is a member of The Only Way Is Essex cast. Gary's final report after leaving the local grammar school with just four O-levels said: 'Must devote less of his time to sport if he wants to be a success.' After ditching cricket to concentrate on football, he achieved his childhood dream of playing for Leicester City when he signed for them as a teenager.
Career:
After making his name as a free-scoring striker with Leicester, he moved to Everton. He enjoyed phenomenal success in Mexico during the 1986 World Cup, winning the Golden Boot as top scorer. After that, Lineker signed for Barcelona, returned to England to play with Tottenham Hotspur three years later, and finished his career in Japan with Grampus 8 in 1994. He was never booked or sent off, won 80 caps for England, and is the country's second highest scorer after Bobby Charlton. He now presents Match of the Day, and has built a reputation as a reliable TV regular, also fronting programmes during the Olympics and for Al Jazeera Sports and the NBC Sports Network.
Quote:
'Football is a game for 22 people that run around, play the ball, one referee who makes a slew of mistakes, and in the end Germany always win.'
Trivia:
Lineker has been fronting light-hearted adverts for Walkers Crisps since 1995.
Cherie Lunghi
(Narrator)
Born:
April 04, 1952
in
London
Best Known For:
The Manageress and a series of coffee adverts.
Early-life:
Cherie Mary Lunghi was born on April 4, 1952, in Nottingham, the daughter of an Italian and his English wife. She was raised in London by her mother and her aunts after her father returned to Italy. Cherie began acting as a child on radio and in TV and eventually studied at Homerton College, Cambridge. Her acting training came at the Arts Educational School and the Central School of Speech and Drama. She has also been keen on dancing, aerobics, horse-riding, painting and playing the piano from an early age.
Career:
Lunghi started out on stage, but made her TV debut in a 1968 episode of the BBC's classic Sherlock Holmes series. She's worked steadily ever since on the small and big screens, cropping up in the likes of Edward & Mrs Simpson, Excalibur, Tales of the Unexpected, The Monocled Mutineer, The Mission, and Ellis Island. However, it was popular footballing drama The Manageress which made her a major TV star in 1989. Since then, Lunghi has appeared in the likes of The Buccaneers, A Question of Guilt, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Jack and Sarah, EastEnders, Cutting It, Midsomer Murders and Casualty 1906. She was a Strictly Come Dancing contestant in 2008.
Quote:
'It's intriguing to get your head around people who have evil intent. It's pretty complicated.'
Trivia:
Lunghi has narrated Who Do You Think You Are?
Alex Graham
(Executive producer)
Colette Flight
(Series producer)
Tom McCarthy
(Director)
