Gary Lineker clashes with Tommy Robinson for sharing video of him walking with daughter-in-law in Mexico

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 down the street abroad with a young woman.

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’.

But the post by Robinson, who has 1.7million followers on X, fuelled speculation as some users labelled the ex-football player ‘creepy’.

Lineker, 65, quickly clarified that the woman 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.

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.’

The context that the woman was his daughter-in-law, Bella, has also been added to Robinson’s post as a Community Note, which are used to help readers understand potentially misleading content on X.

Lineker 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’ for sharing the clip.

Harry, 31, tied the knot with partner Bella in a luxurious Ibiza wedding 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 her way to one of Robinson’s rallies.

He told PoliticsJOE 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.

Back in 2016, Lineker attracted Robinson’s attention after posting that the treatment of young refugees was ‘hideously racist and utterly heartless’.

When the far-right activist replied calling him a ‘clown’, Lineker hit back by calling Robinson a ‘racist idiot’.

In July this year, Robinson again criticised the former presenter’s political statements. In a post on X, he sent a message to Lineker and ‘every other virtue signaller’ who may be ‘putting our women and children in danger’ due to their stance on migrant hotels.

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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