It appears that Gary Lineker is keeping a close eye on Marco Pierre White as he reckons the fiery chef may have “taken a shine” to his fiancé Danielle Bux, who’s one of the competitors in Hell’s Kitchen.

His fears weren’t allayed when he nipped into Marco’s kitchen to offer model Danielle a little moral support but was promply ordered out by Marco who told him to respect that Danielle “has a job to do”.

Gary did however manage to steal a quick kiss from Danielle before heading back to his table in the restaurant but he later said he feared the “grumpy” MPW had “an ulterior motive” for ordering him out of the kitchen…

“Danielle’s next to Marco … again, which is slightly disconcerting. I saw in the first show he was there with her…

“Should I worry?” he said, adding, “He was also very keen to get me out of there rather quickly. Do you think there’s an ulterior motive?”

However, Marco didn’t seem to me to be that interested in Danielle and in fact said “no” to her request to be in the charge of the kitchen pass and gave the job to the brown-nosed Grant Bovey instead.

That decision irritated some of the other trainee chefs too apparently, including Shameless actor Jody Latham, who said he didn’t want “to be bossed” around by Grant and later, in the Confessional, said, “He [Bovey] didn’t actually do that well if I’m honest.”