Gary Lineker's brother Wayne joins The Only Way is Essex

Gary Lineker's brother, Wayne, is to join the cast of The Only Way is Essex (Towie) in the next series.

He has already started filming for the show in Marbella, in a forthcoming two-part summer special on ITV2.

Wayne Lineker already owns a successful nightclub chain across Europe with clubs in Ibiza, Zante and Pathos.

The makers of the programme hope for his club in Essex to be the new Sugar Hut, acting as a father figure to other members of the cast.

The new series has taken a major cast shake up with many regular members leaving the show.

Billi Mucklow, Darrell Privett and Danni Park-Dempsey are among the latest people to announce they are leaving the show.

Wayne Lineker, 50, was jailed in 2006 for a £220,000 tax fraud and was sentenced to two and a half years by a judge at Southwark Crown Court in London.

He admitted using unsuspecting relatives and friends to bring foreign currency to Britain from his Lineker's sports bars in Spain.

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