The BBC confirms Gary Lineker will leave his presenting roles sooner than planned His departure comes after he shared an Instagram post about Zionism that included a drawing of a rat, historically used as an antisemitic insult In a new 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.”

Gary Lineker, a former England soccer captain who became the face of the sport on British TV, will leave the BBC after apologising for sharing a social media post about Zionism that drew complaints over antisemitism.