Jermaine Jenas has revealed the moment he told his wife of 13 years that he had been sacked from the BBC.
Jenas said he initially lied to his wife after he was accused of sending inappropriate messages. He supposedly wanted to find a way out of the mess before he involved his family.
That tactic quickly vanished when he was fired via video call just five days after the first accusation. Jenas was on holiday with his wife Ellie and their three kids at the time.
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The ex-Premier League star was accused of sending inappropriate messages to another person, something which he denies. He says both parties were consenting adults.
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Ellie did not suspect anything was wrong, but her husband was forced to come clean after she suspected he was heading to work on The One Show on Monday. He revealed that he initially thought he’d get a suspension before he was fired.
“I had to tell her by Monday evening because I knew then that I’d been fired,” he told the Sun and added, “I just said, ‘I’ve been sacked from the BBC’.”
“She said, ‘What for?’, and I said, ‘For sending text messages that weren’t appropriate to two girls’. Jenas added that his wife is, “raging,” which he understands. She is said to be focusing on their children and making sure that they’re okay.
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Jenas is considering suing the BBC over their handling of the situation. He was shown a string of X-rated messages to two other One Show colleagues via a Zoom call. However, Jenas accepts that he acted wrongly.
“But I’m the married one, I’m at fault, and I was sort of playing this blame game in my head. The overriding panic by a mile was that I could lose my family,” he told the Sun.
“I have let myself down, my family, friends and colleagues down, and I owe everyone an apology — especially the women with whom I was messaging. I am so, so sorry.
“I am sorry for what I have put them through. I think it would be fair to say I have a problem. I know I self- sabotage and have a self-destructive streak when it comes to my relationship especially, and I know I need help. And I am getting help.
“I have made a lot of mistakes, and I am asking myself a lot of questions at the moment. I know there’s a lot of work that needs to be done, and it will be hard.”
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