Gary Lineker has quit the BBC over the anti-Semitism row that erupted after he shared a social-media post featuring a rat.

At Gary Lineker's house, there is no sign of the man himself. Our gaggle of journalists have been huddled around phones watching his video statement -

This isn’t Lineker’s first controversy. In 2023, the BBC said it had had a ‘frank conversation'” with the star after he criticized the government’s asylum policy, comparing the language to “not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the 30s.”