The Assembly: Gary Lineker review — is this the best interview show on TV?
'You play football?' Gary Lineker's inquisitor asked in ITV's splendid series The Assembly. He replied that, yes, he used to. 'Did you shit yourself?' she asked. Ah.
Imagine having a career as glittering as he had and then getting hit with that as your first question (it referred, I assume, to the unfortunate moment during Italia 90 when Lineker, feeling unwell, had an on-pitch event).
But this is what has made The Assembly such refreshing and different television. The autistic, neurodivergent and learning-disabled people asking celebrities whatever blunt questions they like, do so not with 'gotcha' snark but with genuine curiosity, which is why it injects new life into the tired old celebrity TV interview.
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