Match Of The Day presenter Gary Lineker enjoyed a fun dinner with Jemima Goldsmith, with the pair laughing and joking at a restaurant in Notting Hill.
The pair appeared to be having fun during a night out in West London with a friend, when Lineker emerged onto the street with boxes of leftovers.
Former England football captain Lineker, 63, was pictured walking to a waiting car wearing a white shirt and jeans – while Jemima, 13 years his junior, walked nearby and giggled as she kept her head down.
She wore a simple white T-shirt, tucked into black wide-leg pants and a blazer.
The group had spent several hours in the bistro, eating and drinking wine, before the pair left, with Lineker carrying two takeaway boxes of food.
A friend said of the Lineker-Goldsmith link: ‘I’m not sure when it started or if it’s still going on.
“But they were definitely together in the recent past, at least.”
A source close to Jemima said: ‘She is good friends with him and Danielle and they are in the same circle.’
Gary Lineker and Jemima Goldsmith were spotted leaving a bistro in Notting Hill, West London
Match Of The Day presenter Lineker and Jemima Goldsmith were with a friend
Match Of The Day presenter Lineker has four sons with his first wife Michelle Cockayne, who he married in 1986 before they divorced 20 years later.
He then married model Danielle Bux in September 2009, but the couple announced they were divorcing in January 2016 – with reports suggesting Lineker did not want to have any more children.
Jemima, daughter of the late financier Sir James Goldsmith, married cricket legend and former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan in 1995 before they divorced in 2004.
They have two sons together: Sulaiman Isa, born in 1996, and Kasim, born three years later.
Since then, she has maintained high-profile relationships with comedian Russell Brand and actor Hugh Grant.
Lineker is said to have attended a 50th birthday party held by Jemima at her mansion.
And the ex-footballer looked happy today, pictured beaming as he appeared at the Hay Festival in Powys, Wales, for an on-stage chat with historian David Olusoga.
Lineker and friends hit the streets of Notting Hill after their restaurant outing
Jemima Goldsmith (pictured) had been seen with Lineker and a friend for several hours
Former England and Tottenham Hotspur footballer Lineker was in good form
Gary Lineker was seen smiling at the Hay Festival at Hay-on-Wye in Powys, Wales today
He discussed his career today in an on-stage conversation with historian David Olusoga
Hay Festival organizers promised attendees at the Gary Lineker event ‘an extensive discussion about his career in sport, media and storytelling’
The ex-England captain fended off a backlash earlier this week after he and Alan Shearer came under scrutiny for their interview with Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag after Saturday’s FA Cup final.
United upset expectations by beating Premier League champions Manchester City 2-1 at Wembley, potentially saving Ten Hag’s job after it was reported last Friday that he would be sacked after the match.
Shearer had suggested before the final that the Dutchman could have few complaints if he was sacked after guiding United to their worst ever Premier League finish, 8th.
Viewers watched a tense post-match interview on Saturday, in which Lineker and Shearer grilled Ten Hag about his future and his team’s performance this season.
Lineker discussed the fallout with Shearer on The Rest Is Football podcast, saying: ‘People were a bit offended by our questions and your response to Erik ten Hag.
‘He came over and didn’t seem very happy from the start. I think he also had a crush on Roy Keane, so he clearly had something on his mind when he came over.
“I asked the question, ‘Do you think you have been treated unfairly by experts, and even by us?’
‘It is of course our job to be critical every now and then, we have to say what we think’
Lineker, who played for Tottenham Hotspur, Everton and Barcelona, has previously faced controversy for his political interventions which critics say are a breach of the BBC’s impartiality rules.
In January, he said he received threats after he retweeted and later deleted a social media post calling for Israel to be banned from international sporting events, including football – which led to him being applauded by the Hamas news agency.
But speaking to news site Zeteo this month, he said: ‘There’s a lot of lobbying to keep people quiet, so I understand why most people are abstaining, but I’m getting along a bit now, I’m quite safe and I can’t keep quiet about what’s happening.
‘I just think it’s so, so incredibly terrible and now they’re talking about, “Oh, it looks like it’s happening, if we go into Rafah,” where they sent everyone there.
“So I don’t understand how you can do that. It is not anti-Semitic to say that what Israel is doing is wrong. I just don’t understand why everyone doesn’t see it that way now.
Gary Lineker, 63, and Jemima Goldsmith, 50, were pictured outside a bistro in Notting Hill
A friend was seen waving as the group appeared outside the west London restaurant
Gary Lineker was married to first wife Michelle between 1986 and 2006 – they are pictured here at the FIFA 100 Best Players Awards at the Natural History Museum in London in March 2004
The former footballer is seen here with his second wife Danielle Bux at the Serpentine Gallery in London in July 2015 – they were married between 2009 and 2016
The Pakistani cricket legend and Jemima Khan, pictured here leaving the Richmond Registry Office after their civil wedding ceremony in June 1995, were married for nine years
She later dated actor Hugh Grant, and the couple was seen here in Richmond in October 2006
“But whatever the cause, whatever the origins, we all know that the history of this part of the world goes way before October 7. But it is truly terrible what is happening.
‘And I regularly cry when I see certain images on social media.’
Last December, a Tory MP reported Lineker to the BBC after the Match of the Day presenter launched a series of abuse against Tory politicians.
BBC chairman Samir Shah told MPs that the online attacks appeared to breach the corporation’s social media guidelines.
Lineker was suspended by the BBC in March last year after refusing to apologize for a tweet in which he compared the language around the government’s small boats policy to that of Nazi Germany.
He returned to work after fellow BBC pundits including Shearer, Ian Wright and Jermaine Jenas refused to appear on Match Of The Day in solidarity with him.