Manchester United and West Ham United ace Luke Chadwick has again opened up about the “weekly” abuse he took from sports game show "They Think It’s All Over".The satirical sports panel show ran between 1995 and 2006, featuring a range of high profile pundits including England golden boot winner and Match of the Day host Gary Lineker and actor Nick Hancock.
While the program entertained millions of viewers, many of their gags came at Chadwick’s expense, poking fun at his looks and facial expressions.In the summer of 2020 Hancock and Lineker both issued apologies, after Chadwick spoke candidly about the effect these jokes had on his mental health and well-being.
But while Chadwick maintains that he holds no ill-feeling towards Lineker and Hancock, he further emphasised the negative effect the program’s “weekly” jokes had on his self-esteem.READ NEXT: Ex-Man Utd star had wife fake injury after Big Brother binge made him late for training“It was such a childish, school boy thing, it was about the way that I looked,” Chadwick said to the Pub Talk podcast. “I had spots on my face, my teeth stuck out.
In general, that isn’t a problem if people want to say that, but I felt so defenceless about it.“It was on the TV every week, in my mind everyone was laughing at me and I can’t defend myself.
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