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Gary Lineker: How I became a theatre aficionado


     * Miranda Bryant
     * Wednesday 26 November 2014 10:36 BST
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   The play’s the thing: Gary Lineker with his wife, the actress and model
   Danielle Bux (Picture: Dave Bennett)

   Gary Lineker says he has become a theatre “aficionado” — and it’s all
   thanks to wife Danielle Bux.

   The football pundit, 53, told the Standard that since meeting the
   actress and model he had been racking up the theatre visits and now
   “genuinely loves it”.

   For her part Bux, who married the Match of the Day presenter in 2009,
   said she had developed an interest in football and would “occasionally
   watch a good game”.

   Lineker, who was at Southwark Playhouse with Bux for the press night of
   new play Saxon Court, said that Death of a Salesman, starring the late
   Philip Seymour Hoffman, and the Broadway production of The River were
   among the best plays he had seen.

   The former England striker said: “I’ve become a bit of an aficionado
   through the obvious association to the theatre but I go a lot now, I
   genuinely love it.

   “We were in New York for The River which was amazing. We’re quite
   friendly with a few people in the business now. We saw Death of a
   Salesman with Philip Seymour Hoffman, which adds to it now — that was
   incredible.”

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   The couple spoke of their passion for supporting emerging theatre
   companies such as Made By Brick, which is putting on Saxon Court. The
   satire, directed by Melanie Spencer, is set in a recruitment office at
   the height of the financial crisis.

   Bux, 35, who starred in the company’s last play, Responsible Other,
   said: “[Made by Brick] are young and innovative and the stuff they do
   is different, it’s interesting.”

    Lineker said: “I’m full of admiration for someone who can get off
   their backside and make something happen through their own will and
   determination. It’s hard in this business.”

   Saxon Court is at Southwark Playhouse until December 13.

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