It was only a few minutes before Gary Lineker and Danny Baker were to go live with their podcast, recorded in Gary’s kitchen. And there I was, sitting at the table seriously considering that Gary could have been a successful chef, as I scoff in some more of his home made Moroccan inspired vegetarian stew. I finished my dish, Gary and Danny were given the thumbs up, the room fell silent and the two, facing each other on the opposite sides of a kitchen island, started talking about the week’s football news and reeling out random football facts.
For 30 minutes we were able to get the front row seats to this performance, before we headed off down into Lineker’s basement to start the photoshoot, shooting the cover for Gary and Danny’s book ‘Behind Closed Doors: Life, Laughs and Football’.
We’d pushed Gary’s ping-pong table aside to make space and moved the sofa facing the projection cinema screen.
Gary is the calmer of the two, but together they work perfectly. Casual banter and laughs before props like golden boots and footballs from historical matches were brought in to the shot. Gary and Danny are very different, but they work perfectly together.
Shot for Random House
