Gary Lineker has revealed why his gameshow Sitting On A Fortune was scrapped after just two series.

The ITV show saw six players compete for the chance to win a whopping £100,000 prize pot.

Choosing where they sat in a row of seats influenced who the winner turned out to be, with just the player at the front having the chance to answer questions and win the jackpot.

However, a single wrong answer would see the player demoted to the back of the queue of contestants.

And after its abrupt cancellation, the 63-year-old former footballer believes the lucrative prize pot was to blame.

Gary Lineker has revealed why his gameshow Sitting On A Fortune was scrapped after just two series

Gary told The Sun: ‘I don’t think ITV had the budget for it which is a shame because it was really cool.

‘I did enjoy it — it was fun. But people pretty much won every week — and won plenty of money.

‘And I think that made it quite difficult for ITV.’

Yet he revealed there were no hard feelings as he admitted with his busy schedule he’s not sure if he would’ve filmed another series anyway.

Sitting On a Fortune launched in 2021 and returned in May for its second season before being axed in October.

Over on the BBC, Gary is currently the highest-paid presenter and has been for several years; receiving payments of £1.75–1.76 million each year.

He was paid between £1,350,000 and £1,354,999 in 2021/2022 for work including Match Of The Day and Sports Personality Of The Year – a reduction of £10,000 on the previous year.

Gary was taken off the air in March after posting a Tweet that noted comparisons between the language used by the Government to launch their new asylum seeker policy with that of 1930s Germany.

The ITV show saw six players compete for the chance to win a whopping £100,000 prize pot. Choosing where they sat in a row of seats influenced who the winner turned out to be

Without hosts and commentators, who stepped back in solidarity with Gary, the BBC was forced to air a 20-minute episode of the storied programme without intro music, analysis, or commentary.

Earlier this month it was reported BBC chiefs are talking to Gary after he taunted Tory MPs including Cabinet Minister Grant Shapps and blasted the Government’s Rwanda plan.

Gary signed an open letter challenging the Government’s new plan to tackle the Channel migrant crisis.

He then took aim at Shapps and Tory MPs including ’30p Lee’ Anderson and Jonathan Gullis after they criticised him for the apparent breach of BBC impartiality rules.

The Times reported that BBC bosses were talking to Gary about his tweets.

Insiders took aim at the corporation’s social media guidelines, branding them ‘not fit for purpose’.

Over on the BBC, Gary is currently the highest-paid presenter and has been for several years; receiving payments of £1.75–1.76 million each year