Gary Lineker is officially returning to TV – but in a radically different role to one viewers have come to expect over the years.

The 64-year-old broadcaster and former footballer stepped down from the BBC earlier this year, and presented his last ever Match of the Day episode in May.

During his emotional goodbye, the veteran TV host choked up as he sat alongside co-presenters and fellow former football pros Alan Shearer and Micah Richards.

But after hosting the sport highlights show for 26 years, Lineker’s next adventure is set to be radically different as he joins ITV’s new gameshow The Box.

According to ITV, ‘The Box sees 10 celebrity contestants transported to unknown locations, before being released to face whatever game awaits on the other side of the door’.

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