Wayne Lineker has revealed the ‘ridiculous’ drunken injury that cost him £30,000.
The entrepreneur, 64, – who owns O Beach Club in Ibiza – is approaching a year of sobriety and on Monday reflected on his party days in a new post.
Sharing a clip falling over on a wave machine he penned in the caption: ‘This drunken decision a few years ago cost me £30k and an incredible amount of pain and discomfort for years to come…
‘I thought I’d be clever and just jump on our wave machine fully dressed…
‘I now have a prosthetic full shoulder replacement but at the time I did not care because it went viral. Haha what an idiot. The money I’ve wasted drunk over the years is actually ridiculous.
‘I lost 26 pairs of designer sunglasses summer 2024 I also lost a brand new Bentley for 3 days after a Kisstory event at ocean.
‘Turned out it was in the car wash I forgot I took in for a valet .. this is just touching the surface… how I’m alive is beyond science. But I will always smile at my memories which will be public next year when I release my book.
Wayne Lineker has revealed the ‘ridiculous’ drunken injury that cost him £30,000.
Sharing a clip falling over on a wave machine he penned in the caption: ‘This drunken decision a few years ago cost me £30k and an incredible amount of pain and discomfort for years to come…’
‘Love you all. Sorry for me. Thank you @priory_life_works_house @priorygroup #lifesavers #ibizaalwayswins.’
Earlier this year Wayne told how the carefree party lifestyle that began when he opened his notorious O Beach in 2012 led to a crippling alcohol dependency – and that he had genuine concerns that he could be drinking himself to death.
‘I drank every day since Ocean [his beach club] opened 13 years ago,’ he told The Times back in February. ‘I had seven drinks a day in the winter and 16 drinks a day in the summer, but that was Spanish measures, so it’s triple, quadruple.
‘They wanted to see you having a good time and that’s what I did. I worked out that I had 52,000 drinks in that 13-year period.’
Wayne, the younger brother of former England striker and Match Of The Day host Gary, revealed he would order his first drink at a local bar, at a time when most people were preparing breakfast.
That would be a bracing vodka and Red Bull, followed by multiple glasses of red wine before he arrived at O Beach, located on Ibiza’s raucous west coast, at 4pm – but the night would still be young.
‘I’d have the little demon on my shoulder saying, ‘Right, you need to order your drugs now,” he recalled, admitting the intoxicating combination of alcohol and cocaine would inevitably deprive him of sleep.
The penny started to drop after a notorious video emerged of Lineker looking wasted in the O Beach DJ booth. When it went viral, his dismayed partners demanded an intervention amid fears that he was ‘risking the business.’
But worse would follow, with Lineker’s late night drug and alcohol binges resulting in an emotional confrontation with his son Freddie, 21, a successful DJ.
‘He had an early-morning flight out to Zante for a set,’ he recalled. ‘He could hear me awake, moving around, unable to sleep at 5:00am and he came into my room and gave me a cuddle.
‘He was crying his eyes out and just said, ‘Dad, I don’t want you to go.’ I could see that what I was doing to myself, I was also doing to my family.’
The entrepreneur, 64, – who owns O Beach Club in Ibiza – is approaching a year of sobriety and on Monday reflected on his party days in a new post
He added: ‘I now have a prosthetic full shoulder replacement but at the time I did not care because it went viral. Haha what an idiot’
Earlier this year Wayne told how the carefree party lifestyle that began when he opened his notorious O Beach in 2012 led to a crippling alcohol dependency
It was the latest in a series of wake-up calls that led to his arrival at Champneys hotel in Tring, where he weaned himself off alcohol over a five day period before checking into Surrey rehab Priory Life Works House.
And the early days of his sobriety were not without challenges, with the club-owner’s daughter Tia scheduled to her marry long-term partner in Mallorca just four weeks into his six-week treatment programme.
Viewed as a good test by his therapists, Wayne flew to the Spanish island, walked his daughter down the aisle and attended the ensuing reception, during which he was reunited with his older brother after a lengthy estrangement.
‘That was the best moment of my sobriety,’ he recalled of the day, revealing he and Gary ‘were just like the brothers we always were’ after more than 15 years of almost no communication.
Wayne is now nearly a year sober, but his abstinence coincided with a seven week stay in hospital after he contracted two severe attacks of pneumonia.
The O Beach Ibiza founder revealed he began to feel unwell on a flight to the UK from Dubai after visiting his daughter, Tia.
He told The Mirror: ‘After three days at home, I had another really big attack – I was in a severe state. The doctor told my son I was in big danger and my blood pressure was ridiculously low.
‘But they said, ‘We’re just going to tell your dad he’s ok. We’ll get an ambulance.”
He added’ ‘There were two times I nearly passed away – it was a real eye opener for me. I became worried about my life. Am I going to make it?
‘I lost so much weight, I lost 11 kilograms of weight because I was lying in bed for seven weeks.’
