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Gary Lineker has risked a further reprimand from BBC officials after appearing to share the broadcaster's internal data on social media.
The Match of the Day presenter – the corporation's top earner – tweeted a picture of iPlayer streaming figures to his 8.8 million followers, giving details of the BBC's most streamed programmes and customer viewing habits.
It showed that September 16's episode of the Saturday night football highlights show received more than two million streaming requests, ahead of five different half-hour episodes of soap EastEnders.
The Strictly Come Dancing series launch, which attracted nearly 1.8 million streaming requests, and three further EastEnders episodes completed the top ten.
Lineker, 62, gloated: 'We're top of the IPL... @BBCiPlayer league.' But social media users said the former England striker could be in hot water for sharing internal BBC data, which differs from the BARB viewing figures that are routinely made public.
Gary Lineker (pictured) has risked a further reprimand from BBC officials after appearing to share the
