Lineker: I can’t see my MotD notes
BY RECORD REPORTER GARY Lineker has said his eyesight is getting so bad he is struggling to read his Match of the Day notes – even though he has been writing them bigger.
He might have had an eye for goal as a Spurs and England striker but he admitted he now needs to wear his glasses more and more for telly.
Gary, 59, said: “At first, I put them on to read if there was a breaking news story or something like that.
“And then it came to the point that, however big I wrote my notes, I couldn’t see them anymore.
“As I found it increasingly more difficult, I just thought, ‘I’ll just put the glasses on’.
“They are varifocal. The problem I had before was if I kept my reading glasses on, the guys would all be blurred.”
BY MARK JEFFERIES SHERIDAN Smith has revealed she was rushed to hospital and had five seizures after she stopped taking anti-anxiety pills.
However, the actress bounced back to become a mum and has filmed an ITV documentary on mental health struggles to help other women.
Sheridan was nominated for BBC drama The C Word at the 2016 Baftas and “went off the deep end” after show host Graham Norton cracked a joke about her pulling out of West End show Funny Girl.
In the documentary, Sheridan Smith: Becoming Mum, she says: “Graham made a joke about me being a drunk. I was so humiliated. But what people didn’t know was I had become addicted to anti-anxiety tablets.
“That night, I took myself off to a hotel on my own. In my crazy mind I thought, ‘I don’t want to be in rehab, I’ll do it myself ’. So I went there and stopped taking my tablets.
“Weirdly, a friend had rang me and came to the hotel. It’s a miracle she did because what I didn’t realise is that if you stop taking these tablets abruptly, you seizure.
“I seizured five times. I got rushed to A&E and she (the friend) got me breathing again.”
The Baftas came at a tough time in Sheridan’s life as her father Colin was diagnosed with cancer. He died months later and she left Funny Girl due to mental health issues.
In the documentary, Sheridan, 39 speaks of her joy at becoming a parent with insurance broker Jamie Horn, 30, and how she now wants a second child.
Holding baby Billy, who was born in May, she says: “This little miracle. I have never felt love like it.
“He completes me. I never thought that would be me or my life but I can’t wait to get a sibling for him now.”
She describes motherhood as the “best feeling in the world” and adds: “I’d kind of been told that by people but I actually never thought I