Jermaine Jenas plans to speak to lawyers about his BBC sacking might come to nothing as insiders at the corporation claim he has “not got a leg to stand on”. The 41-year-old father of four was sacked from his lucrative presenting roles on the broadcaster after a female member of staff on The One Show alleged she received unsolicited communications over text from him . Following the news of his axing being made public he said: “Right now I can’t talk about it.
I can tell you I’m not happy - there are two sides to every story - and I’m going to be speaking with my lawyers on the issue." However seemingly anyone who has been privvy to the messages he is alleged to have sent to at least one runner via WhatsApp, has said they were “horrified”. “He has done some things that are incompatible with our values and what we think is appropriate in the workplace.
This is not just a flirty text which might get you a b*****g, he was completely over the line and we have absolute evidence of that. He really doesn’t have a leg to stand on,” a source has told The Mirror . His unsolicited texts have come to light only “very recently” and have been described as “suggestive”.
Once they were reported the BBC felt the only course of action was to terminate his employment. “The matter was raised very recently. We looked at it, we talked about it - and we said goodbye,” the source said.
“It’s a clear abuse of power and there’s no room here for anything of that n.