JERMAINE Jenas has revealed the moment he told his "raging" wife he was sacked from the BBC for sending inappropriate texts to two women. After being told of the allegations against him, Jenas lied to his wife Ellie in a desperate bid to stall and “find a way out of this mess”. But he was fired five days later via video call while on a family holiday with Ellie and their three kids.
Jenas recalled the moment he was forced to come clean when Ellie believed he would be going to work on The One Show on Monday. He exclusively told The Sun: “I was obviously hoping that I maybe would have got a suspension of some sort. “I had to tell her by Monday evening because I knew then that I’d been fired.
Read More in Showbiz “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’. “Ellie is absolutely raging.
She’s human. When I see her now, she is just making sure the children are OK.” After being sacked by the BBC , Jenas — in an excruciating online meeting with HR and senior corporation execs — was shown a string of X-rated messages he had sent two colleagues on The One Show.
Most read in Celebrity However, the defiant former footie star, who is considering suing the BBC for their handling of the crisis, insists: “I did nothing illegal — these were inappropriate messages between two consenting adults.” The ex-Tottenham man denied sending any sexual pi.