Gary Lineker films The Rest Is Football podcast wearing the same shirt he wore the night before while enjoying dinner with ex-wife Danielle Bux

Gary Lineker wore the same shirt during the live filming of The Rest Is Football that he wore the night before when he was out with his ex-wife Danielle Bux.

The football pundit, 64, joined his co-hosts Alan Shearer and David Moyes to film an episode of their popular podcast in Mayfair, London.

During filming, Gary wore a navy blue and gray checked shirt over a white T-shirt.

He wore the same look hours earlier when he skipped the 2024 BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards for a candlelit dinner with Danielle, 45, on Tuesday.

The former footballer enjoyed a night out at Dorian Restaurant in Notting Hill with Danielle, while his colleagues gathered at MediaCityUK, Salford, for the awards ceremony.

Gary, the BBC’s highest paid star, has stepped down as co-presenter of SPOTY after receiving the news that he will also be leaving Match of the Day after 25 years.

Pictures show the presenter and his ex – who split eight years ago after a seven-year marriage – walking side by side in the rain on a busy London street.

Gary smiled as he strolled next to Danielle, who he previously revealed will be staying with him when she returns to London.

The glamorous mum wore a long black dress, brown scarf and stiletto heels, while the presenter looked more casual in a puffer coat, jeans and trainers.

Danielle, who has remained close friends with Gary after their wedding, shared Instagram photos of the fun night out.

Showing off their table setting with salad and wine, the Welsh actress tagged Gary and wrote ‘Christmas Tipple’ before sharing a cozy selfie of the two waiting for their late-night tube ride home.

The former couple split in 2016 and Danielle married Nate Greenwald, an American entertainment lawyer, in 2019, two years after they welcomed their daughter Romy, seven.

In November, it was announced that Gary would be stepping down as host of SPOTY after 23 years. His usual co-hosts Clare Balding, Gabby Logan and Alex Scott were all back for the 2024 ceremony.

The BBC pundit will also leave Match of the Day at the end of the season after 25 years as the star of the show.

The former England striker will continue to provide live FA Cup coverage before leaving the club completely in two years’ time after the 2026 World Cup in Canada, Mexico and the United States.

The deal will see the BBC provide live coverage and highlights on its TV channels and iPlayer, as well as live audio commentary on Radio 5 Live, 5 Sports Extra and BBC Sounds.

ITV will offer free coverage of live matches on ITV1, ITV4 and ITVX, plus highlights and exclusive content on ITV Sport’s social accounts.

Gary has remained close to his ex-wife Danielle since their split, and previously revealed how the Welsh beauty, who moved to Los Angeles after their split, will stay with him when she returns to London.

Danielle and Gary were divided over her desire to have children, while he was comfortable with his four sons, George, 32, Harry, 30, Tobias, 28, and Angus, 26. Danielle had daughter Ella, 22, from a previous relationship.

He previously told the Times: ‘Obviously I would have, but she said, ‘It’s not fair to you.’ Then I said, ‘Well, I’d feel terrible if I stopped you from doing this.’

Speaking on his friend Gaby Logan’s podcast The Mid-Point last year, Gary further explained: ‘It was purely down to the kids.

‘She already had a daughter, I had four boys, [but] Then her body clock started ticking and she got the urge.

“We finally decided, ‘Why don’t we just stay friends?'” he continued, adding that he wanted to give her the freedom to find someone who was also interested in having a baby.

“She didn’t want me to do something I didn’t really want to do deep down, and I didn’t want to stop her from doing something she really wanted to do, deep down, so we came to a logical and sensible decision. [split]’.

In 2019, Gary revealed he speaks to Danielle three times a day as he insisted they are still ‘best friends’.

He admitted his bond with his wife is ‘unusual’, telling Mirror: ‘Danielle and I are best friends, 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 Los Angeles I see her.”

Gary first married Michelle Cockayne in 1986, during which time they welcomed four sons together.

They split after 20 years of marriage and three years later in 2009, Gary married Danielle, who is 19 years his junior.

Although Danielle remarried, Gary has remained single since their divorce.

In 2021, he claimed he was ‘not worried’ about intimacy – and admitted he was at an age where his testosterone levels had dropped.

In an interview with The Times, Gary said: ‘I like being alone… I don’t feel lonely. I have the odd date here and there, but nothing…

‘Not in terms of a long relationship. I have been married most of my adult life. Two very good marriages, I am friends with both.’

‘I’m still single. I’m not going that route! I’ve been there before and tried to explain it, but I got slaughtered by my friends.”

Despite previously insisting he remained single, last month Gary was seen enjoying a night out at the popular Dorian restaurant with Leila Bartell, a friend of Johnny Depp’s ex-wife, Amber Heard.

The former England striker is rarely seen with women but spent an evening in May with Leila, believed to be in her mid-40s, and mutual friend Jemima Khan.

Rumors then circulated that Ms Khan and Lineker may have become an item. A year earlier he attended her 50th birthday party at her country estate, Kiddington Hall in Oxfordshire.