Jermaine Jenas, who hosted The One Present alongside Alex Jones, hit the headlines final yr when he was dismissed with fast impact for inappropriate behaviour. The previous England footballer, 42, revisited the scandal that additionally price him his gig on Match of The Day. It additionally finally led to the collapse of his marriage to his spouse of 14 years, Ellie, with the pair saying their cut up in March.
It emerged that complaints had been made about specific messages he despatched to colleagues, which additionally led to him being dropped by his expertise company. Nearly one yr later, Jenas has revisited the scandal and has acknowledged that he handled the repercussions within the “mistaken approach”.
Talking candidly to comic Katherine Ryan and professional boxer Derek Chisora on his Let Me Inform You One thing podcast, Jenas started: “I broke a vow. I really feel my degree of punishment was up there. I needed to take it and have some broad shoulders and deal with it, and I really feel like I did that.”
On the character of the textual content messages he despatched, Jenas likened them to the racy Jamie Dornan Fifty Shades franchise.
“It was Christian Gray in textual content messages, put it that approach. It was sexting, so simple as that, however it was initiated to me, after which I responded,” he defined.
“It wasn’t simply me going out of my approach, and it positively 100% wasn’t, ‘If you happen to do that, I’ll make it easier to in your work.’
“There was no energy factor to it occurring.”
Jenas additionally opened up about his marriage to his spouse Ellie Penfold and defined they had been having issues previous to the sexting scandal.
“There’s quite a lot of stuff with me and Ellie the place we weren’t in the very best place ourselves,” he mentioned.
“And issues had been simply spiralling a bit of bit. Under no circumstances is that blame. I’m totally accepting duty.
“I handled it mistaken and acquired closely punished for it by shedding just about every thing that I had at the moment.”
Jenas has since made a comeback working for talkSPORT and declared earlier this yr that he can be a “higher particular person”.
