Ginola worked as a football pundit with the BBC, BT Sport, Canal Plus, CNN, Sky Sports and
Talksport. On 16 January 2015, Ginola announced that he would be running for the presidency of
FIFA for which he was paid a £250,000 fee by the Irish bookmaker
Paddy Power. He would attempt to raise £2.3 million to fund the campaign for the FIFA presidency through contributions via a
crowdfunding program. He started his campaign on the same day by denouncing the credibility of
Sepp Blatter’s FIFA before admitting he knew little about the governing body's processes or institutions. The elections to select the next FIFA president would be due on 29 May 2015. Ginola withdrew his candidacy on 29 January, the deadline for candidates to formally submit their nominations, after failing to secure the support of at least five national football associations. In 2008, Ginola received a silver medal at the International Wine Challenge for a rosé wine produced at his vineyard in
Provence. Ginola was one of the contestants in the first season of
Danse avec les stars (a French version of the British TV show
Strictly Come Dancing). In 2021, he was announced as a contestant on the
twenty-first series of ''
I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!'' in the United Kingdom. He ultimately finished fourth.
Acting Ginola took his first steps towards a career in acting by attending classes at RADA. Ginola made his debut as Didier the Butcher, the leading part in the Anglo-French short film
Rosbeef.
Rosbeef, a tale of love, lust and a kilo of sausages, premiered during the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. The same year,
Rosbeef won a prize, the Prix Coup de Coeur Canal+, at the Festival International de Cinéma et Gastronomie in Dijon. Next, he played the title role, Mr Firecul the devil in the British short film
Mr Firecul. For his first feature film,
The Last Drop, Ginola was cast as Corporal Dieter Max, a renegade German sniper alongside the likes of Agathe de la Boulaye, Michael Madsen, Nick Moran, Karel Roden and Billy Zane. This World War II heist movie premiered in Cannes in 2005 and was released as
Operation Matchbox. In 2000, Ginola made a cameo appearance in the first episode of the ITV drama series
At Home with the Braithwaites. In 2003, Ginola played himself, announcing the results for the first Euro Lottery. In 2004, he played the leading role in
The Centre, a BBC television documentary and, in 2006, he appeared in the second series of Channel 4's
Coach Trip during episode 22, in which he acted as a tour guide of Sainte-Maxime. Later that year, Ginola appeared, again as himself, in the ITV series
City Lights. In 2008, Ginola appeared in an episode of
Chop Shop on Discovery Turbo, where he had a one-off car designed for his son's birthday; in the same year, he appeared as Alexandre, a fashion photographer, in the special edition of the CBS series
The Young and the Restless, shot in Paris to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the show's broadcast in France, where it is known as ''Les Feux de l'amour''.
Endorsements Before moving to England, Ginola had already transcended the world of football by featuring in advertising campaigns for the
Morgan clothing company and appearing on the catwalk for
Cerruti. In England, he fronted commercials for a.o. Braun shavers, Carte Noire coffee, Kingston Technologies memory sticks, Ladbrokes sports betting, L'Oréal hair products and Renault cars. Ginola featured in the
EA Sports'
FIFA video game series; he was on the cover for the International edition of
FIFA 97, and was introduced in
FIFA 23 as a FUT Hero player. Ginola was an ambassador for the Paris 2012 Olympic bid and was also an ambassador for the French Golf Federation in their successful bid to stage the Ryder Cup 2018 in France. Ginola campaigned worldwide for the English FA bid to host the
2018 FIFA World Cup. He is a campaigner for the Red Cross Anti-Landmine campaign and
UNESCO and was respectively patron and president of the UK based Vision and Sparks charities. ==Personal life==