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RE: Gary Lineker/BBC Asylum Controversy - UTVLifer - 10-03-2023

By the sounds of it, MOTD is in complete and utter meltdown behind the scenes

https://twitter.com/henrywinter/status/1634260666365124611?s=61&t=9PSUu8dUPDOGotmQBtN_ig 

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RE: Gary Lineker/BBC Asylum Controversy - Stooky Bill - 10-03-2023

(10-03-2023, 07:10 PM)IanJRedman Wrote:  I'm sure Gary himself isn't worried about any of this in the slightest. Practically every other broadcaster would be queueing up for him, and at a far higher salary, one assumes.

He already works for other broadcasters and runs a successful podcast production company. He's not going to be sitting at home bored and broke

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RE: Gary Lineker/BBC Asylum Controversy - eyeTV - 10-03-2023

There will need to be a BBC U-turn I think.

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RE: Gary Lineker/BBC Asylum Controversy - m_in_m - 10-03-2023

https://twitter.com/alanshearer/status/1634261207354843143?t=Tq39OFGKSbeRjEBLqNZdew&s=19 

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RE: Gary Lineker/BBC Asylum Controversy - Kojak - 10-03-2023

(10-03-2023, 07:43 PM)UTVLifer Wrote:  By the sounds of it, MOTD is in complete and utter meltdown behind the scenes

https://twitter.com/henrywinter/status/1634260666365124611?s=61&t=9PSUu8dUPDOGotmQBtN_ig 

Don't worry, I'm sure Amol Rajan can fill in if no one else will do it. He already does every other programme on the BBC. 

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RE: Gary Lineker/BBC Asylum Controversy - Andrew - 10-03-2023

Manish Bhasin might get the call up at this rate

And some of the newer pundits who don’t have the same reputation to be able to make a stand and it not effect their career

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RE: Gary Lineker/BBC Asylum Controversy - Stooky Bill - 10-03-2023

(10-03-2023, 06:55 PM)qwerty123 Wrote:  

(10-03-2023, 06:48 PM)thePineapple Wrote:  Regarding Richard Osman's stance, I see no reason why him tweeting in support of Lineker is any different to what Lineker said himself - they both freelance for the BBC (or at least I assume Osman is), but there's been no big headlines, and Tim Davie hasn't pulled him aside. 

This is what I don't get - this obsession with Lineker in particular is purely arbitrary, from what I can make out.

Does Osman freelance for the BBC or does he appear on independent productions that are commissioned by or broadcast on it?

Richard Osman famously was an employee of Endemol who ended up presenting one of their programmes. That's now part of Banjay who make both Pointless and House of Games, he stopped being an employee of them when his career picked up. 

So no, he's freelance and has never AFAIK been a BBC employee

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RE: Gary Lineker/BBC Asylum Controversy - Rolling News - 10-03-2023

Ben Brown suggested Katharine Downes on the News Channel earlier.

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RE: Gary Lineker/BBC Asylum Controversy - Andrew - 10-03-2023

Mike Bushell should host, he’d no doubt love the limelight

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RE: Gary Lineker/BBC Asylum Controversy - Stooky Bill - 10-03-2023

As it stands there either won't be a MOTD tomorrow night, or it'll be highlights only and no studio content

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