Geelong captain Joel Selwood has sparked social media controversy after posting a TikTok video of him using his wife to mop the floor.

The tongue-in-cheek video, accompanied by an excerpt from "The Clean Up Song" depicted Selwood dipping his wife's hair into a bucket before using it to clean the floor.

He quickly deleted the video after backlash began to pour in, but not before the video had amassed 40,000 views.

โ€œA lot of kids, boys and girls would look up to Joel Selwood, so what a horrible example of how to treat women he is showing them,โ€ one person tweeted.

โ€œWhat were you thinking? Not funny mate,โ€ another commented.

Others came to the defence of Selwood, painting the criticism as a major overreaction.

โ€œTwo married people having a laugh in their own home, people need to get a grip,โ€ one person wrote on Twitter.

โ€œIf anyone is criticising this they need to have a serious spell,โ€ another tweeted.