Jermaine Jenas 'not a sex pest' but is 'getting help' as 'ashamed' ex-player opens up on BBC sack

Former England midfielder Jermaine Jenas says he is “humiliated” after being sacked by the BBC over posts to lady officemateses.

The Matched Of The Day and also The One Underline audio spokesperson was afar by the BBC from the alignment queue-ups on Thursday.

“I am humiliated, and also I am deeply sorry,” the 41-year-weared previous footballer said in an interview with The Sunshine paper.

“I have let myself down, my family members, pals and also officemateses down, and also I owe everyone an apology – specifically the females with whom I was messaging. I am so, so sorry.

“I am sorry for what I have displayed them with. I believe it would be exchange to claim I have a instigator.

“I recognize I self-sabotage and also have a self-repulsive touch once it comes to my relationship specifically, and also I recognize I require aid. And also I am receiving aid.

“I have made abounding misjudgments, and also I am quizing myself abounding misgivings at the minute. I recognize there’s abounding job-related that last bargains to be performed, and also it will be difficult.”

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Jenas said he fell listed below the traditional of commitment that “last bargains to be marketed once you’re a entrant of the BBC”, but insisted there was zero criminality compelled.

“I did nothing banned – these were improper posts between two consenting grownups,” he said.

Yet he admitted: “I’m not domineering of what I evolved and also what I said. And also I implement ponder it disloyalty, of course, although nothing physical ever before took room.

“This is unanimously on me and also I fully authorize there is a level of commitment that last bargains to be marketed once you’re a entrant of the BBC. And also I fell listed below those criteria. I have to confiscate the commitment.”

Jenas said he truly thumbed as however he is “the number one target correct currently in the suv” after complaints started to swirl around his sacking.

He told the paper: “These were two consenting grownups I was chatting to. With one she made it translucent she was intrigued.

“I don’t yearn to overture going down the ‘that pursued that’ roadway, but once human beings are proverb points that are unscrupulous and also defamatory explanation is being spread, I implement have to type of safeguard my room.

“In that information instance, there was an adult conversation that took room in a bar in London wherein that customer made it horribly translucent that they had an lure to me. Of course there was liquor compelled but I confiscate complete commitment.

“I feel human beings don’t recognize the reality and also are forming point of sights around me that aren’t specific. I wasn’t going with some type of BBC vault attempting to render consumption females’s figures.

“I’m just remarking claim I’m not a sex pest. These were consenting grownups I was texting.”

Jenas possesses been wed to architecture Ellie Penfold for 13 years.