Ryan Prosser
Published November 30, 2025 7:35pm
Updated November 30, 2025 7:36pm
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Gary Lineker was shown walking with his daughter-in-law Bella down a street abroad (Picture: X)
Gary Lineker has locked horns with Tommy Robinson after the far-right activist shared a clip of him on holiday in Mexico.
Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, shared a video of the former Match of the Day presenter walking on a street abroad with a young girl.
He posted the video on X along with the message: ‘What are you up to here @GaryLineker?”
A passer-by on the clip is shown asking Lineker the same question before telling him to ‘enjoy his holiday’.
However, Lineker, 65, quickly clarified that the girl was his daughter-in-law, who he was taking to a pharmacy to buy medicine for his son Harry, and accused Robinson of stoking up hatred.
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Explaining the clip, he wrote: ‘If you must know, I was going to a chemist with my daughter-in-law, to get some medicine for her unwell husband….my son. Hatred is a dreadful weakness.’
He later retweeted a post suggesting that Robinson had thrown his followers under the bus by inciting them to recirculate libellous claims.
His son George went one step further calling Robinson a ‘f***ing idiot’.
Harry, 31, tied the knot with partner Bella in a luxurious Ibiza ceremony in June.
It’s not the first time the Rest is Football host has clashed with Yaxley-Lennon and his supporters.
He admitted in an interview that he had been ‘elbowed in the back’ by a ‘little old lady’ who was on the way to one of Robinson’s rallies.
It’s his daughter-in-law you f*cking idiot 😂 https://t.co/u9y8ZCQIm7
— George Lineker (@GeorgeLineker) November 30, 2025
He told Politics Joe this was one of only two instances when he had been accosted in public.
The other time was being told he ‘hated Britain’ while shopping for groceries.
‘It’s the same lot every time. It’s the same people’, he explained.
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Lineker visited the Mexican central city of Pachuca earlier this month, where he attended a ceremony to be inducted into the International Football Hall of Fame.
He wrote on Instagram that this was his first time in the central American country since it hosted the 1986 World Cup.
It comes as Lineker is reportedly set to join streaming giant Netflix in a lucrative deal in time for next year’s World Cup.
Daily Mail reported that the deal would result in a ‘huge payday’ for Lineker, who resigned from the BBC in May after sharing a post about zionism featuring a picture of a rat – a historically antisemitic symbol.
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