The BBC presenter fired this week has damaged his silence to confess he despatched “inappropriate messages” to 2 colleagues.
Former footballer Jermaine Jenas gave an interview to The Solar through which he mentioned he was “ashamed” and “had let everyone down.”
He revealed he had despatched messages to 2 feminine colleagues on the BBC’s day by day night journal TV program The One Present, however mentioned he accomplished nothing unlawful, that the messages have been despatched to “two consenting adults,” and that he was “not a intercourse pest.”
Following earlier incidents through which the BBC had been criticised for not performing swiftly sufficient in coping with claims made in opposition to a few of their high-profile faces, the broadcaster terminated Jenas’s contract on Thursday, a number of weeks after the allegations got here to mild. No additional particulars of Jenas’s departure have been revealed.
Within the interview Jenas added:
- He’s conscious he has a proclivity to “self-sabotage,” for which he’s searching for assist
- He’s contemplating suing the BBC for its therapy of him
- His marriage is on the rocks together with his spouse now not talking to him
Previous to his firing, Jenas was additionally a pundit on the BBC’s long-running soccer present Match of the Day, which celebrates its sixtieth anniversary this week. He had been tipped to exchange longtime host Gary Lineker in some unspecified time in the future sooner or later.
