Match Of The Day

Lineker has been the BBC’s highest-paid on-air talent for seven consecutive years and was estimated to have earned £1.35 million in the year 2023/24.

The football pundit says he will be stepping back at the end of the season.

The sports pundit, 62, has been embroiled in a row over impartiality with the BBC after criticising the government’s Illegal Immigration Bill.