Inverdale left 5 Live in March 2019. In 2019 Inverdale provided radio commentary to Japan 2019 Rugby World Cup matches via the official audio commentary available through the TuneIn radio platform. Television Inverdale worked extensively on Sky Sports during the channel's early years, most notably as presenter of Goals On Sunday and on their coverage of Serie A Italian football, where Alan Hansen regularly appeared alongside him as studio pundit. Inverdale has also worked regularly for BBC Television. He became the BBC's main Rugby Union anchor in the 2006 Six Nations Championships following the departure of Steve Rider to ITV Sport. He led ITV's Rugby World Cup coverage in 2015. He hosted BBC One's sports chat show, On Side between 1997 and 2001. He presents the BBC's World Cup and Olympic Rowing coverage alongside Sir Steve Redgrave. In October 2012, he filmed several episodes of Channel 4 show Countdown. Inverdale has hosted ITV's live French Open coverage from Roland Garros since 2012. From 2000 to 2014 he presented Today at Wimbledon, BBC Two's nightly tennis highlights, until the format changed in 2015. This was mainly due to the 2013 Marion Bartoli controversy which led the BBC to drop Inverdale from the show. However, the new version Wimbledon 2Day hosted by Clare Balding was ridiculed by the public. Such was the unpopularity of Wimbledon 2Day, a Twitter campaign called "bring back John Inverdale" attracted thousands of supporters, with Inverdale claiming that he had "never been so popular." The unpopular highlights show was ditched in 2016 and rebranded its original title, Today at Wimbledon. Inverdale is now a member of the main commentary team. He appeared as himself in five episodes of 2016 BBC Three comedy Witless as the presenter of 'Witpro', a spoof video series about witness protection. Inverdale stepped down from anchoring the BBC's rugby coverage in March 2021. Controversy Owing to his involvement in multiple broadcasting controversies, Inverdale has been dubbed as "gaffe-prone". Marion Bartoli On 6 July 2013, the day of the Wimbledon Ladies Final, during a pre-match discussion on 5 Live with commentator Lindsay Davenport, Inverdale said of finalist and eventual winner Marion Bartoli: "I just wonder if her dad, because he has obviously been the most influential person in her life, I just wonder if her dad did say to her when she was 12, 13, 14 maybe, 'Listen, you are never going to be, you