G ary Lineker has again topped the BBC’s pay league — earning hundreds of thousands pounds and more than double what the director-general takes home. Figures published in the annual report show the former Tottenham and England striker — who has strongly denied being the BBC presenter said to have paid a teenager more than £35,000 for sexually explicit photos — received between £1,350,000 and £1,354,999 in 2022/23. In April Lineker was at the centre of a Twitter storm and suspended from Match of the Day for one weekend after criticising the government’s language around migrants and comparing it to...