# @dailymailsport on TikTok

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.tiktok.com/@dailymailsport/video/7566930739451661590
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/36424880-dailymailsport-tiktok
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- **Posted:** 2025-10-30T08:35:59.000+00:00

## Caption

Paul Scholes QUITS television punditry work to care for his non-verbal autistic son, as he confirms he's split from wife Claire after years of silence. Like many of his former Man United team-mates, Scholes has been a former player in-demand since his retirement in 2013.  The 50-year-old was previously a frequent fixture on television coverage of domestic and European matches, but this season has stepped away from his live broadcasting responsibilities to focus on podcasting.  But aside from 'hating' media appearances, as Scholes told his old team-mate Gary Neville on the Stick to Football podcast, brought to you by Sky Bet, the former midfielder gave up the majority of his television work in order to build a routine with Aiden, who is non-verbal and was diagnosed with 'severe autism', in Scholes' words, at the age of two-and-a-half.  'All the work I do now is just around his routines, 'cos he has quite a strict routine every single day, so I just decided everything I'm going to do, it is around Aiden,' Scholes told Neville and his co-hosts.  Sharing that he has separated from his childhood sweetheart Claire Froggatt, who he married in 1999, Scholes shared that Aiden's parents have 'three nights each' with him a week, with their son spending Friday night with Froggatt's mother.  'We always do the same things with him as he doesn’t know what day of the week it is or time. But he’ll know from what we’re doing what day it is,' Scholes continued. 'I pick him up every Tuesday from his daycare and we go swimming. Loves swimming then we get his pizza on the way home. Thursday pick him up, go for something to eat, go home. 'Sunday, I pick him up from Claire’s house and we go to Tesco where he buys a trolley full of chocolate. So, he doesn’t know what day or time it is, but he knows from what we’re doing what day it is. He’ll be 21 in December.' Discussing his diagnosis, Scholes continued: 'When I say he can't speak, I think he understands a lot more than we think. 'He has sounds, but it's only people that are close to him that will know what he's saying.' But Scholes has found it rewarding to share small snapshots of his life with Aiden on social media, having heard from parents who have similar experiences with their children that it can 'help' in difficult moments. #paulscholes #manchesterunited #news #football #long

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