Londoner’s Diary
Ex-footballer-turned-pundit and podcaster Gary Lineker was a fish out of water at the National Theatre’s charity gala party last night, not that it seemed to put him off. “As an obvious luvvie, I should be in a place like this,” he quipped. Lineker’s political tweets about everything from immigration to the water companies have got him in endless trouble with BBC bosses. “As someone who’s played in many theatres but not these kind of theatres, I love the theatre, and I come a lot. I’ve been to the National many times and seen some great plays. I watched Dear England here,” he said of James Graham’s play about England’s near miss at the 2020 Euros.
