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Published 13:37 6 Nov 2021 GMT
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Last year, Lineker allowed a student from Pakistan to move in with him. (Photo by Samir Hussein/WireImage)[/caption]
Lineker began campaigning for refugees following the tragic loss of Syrian boy Alan Kurdi, who sadly drowned off the coast of Greece in 2015.
Speaking in September 2020, he said: "It was seeing the images of what was happening when they were going in the boats and landing in Greece, seeing families dying, it just struck me as so intolerably sad.
"I just thought we were going anti them with front pages with all this anti-refugee propaganda and I thought, put yourself in their shoes.
"Imagine if it was London that was being bombed and we had to flee somewhere and nobody would accept you and nobody would want us and everyone would hate you."
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