Gary Lineker’s ex-wife Michelle Cockayne was spotted looking cosy with a mystery man on the beach in Barbados over the weekend.
The 55-year-old showed off her age-defying physique in a powder blue bikini as she soaked up the sun on the Caribbean island with pals, enjoying a stroll in the surf with the shirtless chap.
He put an arm around her as they padded along the shoreline, both dripping wet from a fresh dip in the sea.
Who’s this? Gary Lineker’s ex-wife Michelle Cockayne was spotted looking cosy with a mystery man on the beach in Barbados over the weekend
While the man’s identity is unknown, Michelle is currently single, having divorced Gary, 60, in 2006.
The halterneck bikini top highlighted Michelle’s enviably toned abs while the tie-string bottoms accentuated her lithe limbs.
Michelle arrived at the beach in a chic white vest top and denim shorts. Making the most of the sunny climes, she soon set up camp at a sun lounger and stripped down to her swimwear.
The 55-year-old happily chatted away to her brunette female pal and the pair hugged as they basked in the sunshine before boarding a speed boat together.
Sizzling display: The 55-year-old showed off her age-defying physique in a powder blue bikini as she soaked up the sun on the Caribbean island with pals, enjoying a stroll in the surf with the shirtless chap
Romantic? They padded along the shoreline, both dripping wet from a fresh dip in the sea
She regularly visits Barbados and previously shared a £2.2million home on the island with the sportsman.
Gary was first married Michelle in 1986, with whom he has four sons – George, 29, Harry, 27, Tobias, 25, and Angus, 23.
The Match Of The Day presenter and Michelle divorced in 2006 on the grounds of Gary’s ‘unreasonable behaviour,’ and he went on to remarry Welsh model Danielle, nee Bux, 41.
The Lineker family have holidayed in the Caribbean for years and they previously shared a £2.2million home on the island.
In High Court papers, Michelle said the former England striker known as football’s ‘Mr Nice Guy’ had caused her ‘stress and anxiety’.
All at sea: The 55-year-old happily chatted away to her brunette female pal and the pair hugged as they basked in the sunshine before boarding a speed boat together
Split: The Match Of The Day presenter and Michelle divorced in 2006 on the grounds of Gary’s ‘unreasonable behaviour’ (pictured in 2000)
The former couple met when she was 14 and he was an 18-year-old reserve for his home town club Leicester City.
‘There wasn’t one particular moment when we suddenly became a couple but I do remember asking her out for our first proper date to a restaurant when she was 17 and it just went on from there,’ he once recalled.
‘I was probably keener on her then than she was on me and I’m probably keener now.’
Gary and his second wife Danielle split in 2016 after nine years of marriage and have remained close friends ever since.
Danielle subsequently relocated to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career and went on to find love with Nate Greenwald, an Ivy League educated lawyer with CAA.
Good friends: Gary and his second wife Danielle split in 2016 after nine years of marriage and have remained close friends ever since (pictured in 2015)
The model, already a parent to teenage daughter Ella, 17, from a former relationship, announced she was expecting her first child with Greenwald in February 2017.
The couple then welcomed their daughter, Romy Wren, in August 2017.
Despite the split, Gary previously insisted the pair have remained ‘great mates’ and speak several times a day.
He told The Mirror: ‘Danielle and I are best mates, we still speak three times a day, we text all the time.’
He added: ‘When she comes to London she stays with me, and when I go to LA I see her.’