JERMAINE Jenas has told how he was sacked by the BBC over Zoom while on a family holiday. During a getaway to Marbella, Spain, Jenas sat in on a call listening to bosses read out X-rated messages that his wife Ellie had no idea about. Allegations had been brought to the ex-footballer five days prior - with him keeping quiet in a desperate bid to “find a way out of this mess”.
But after learning he had been fired, Jenas was forced to come clean when Ellie believed he would be going to work on The One Show on Monday. Jenas told The Sun: “It was just a grim situation. You’re having to sit there and listen to what you’ve said.
I’m not proud of anything . “It’s embarrassing, and obviously there’s four people there on a Zoom call, basically, just listening to all of this, and reading out my messages . read more on jenas "I think I was in shock at the time, there was a lot to process.
“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 . “There’s something in me that’s praying there is some level of mercy or understanding of the fact we’re human beings and we all make mistakes, some bigger than others and mine is a big mistake.
Most read in Celebrity “But that didn’t happen, and yeah the whole situation was pretty hellish — and right now I’m not quite sure what I’m feeling, but I don’t think I have ever been lower .” Jenas, who als.