Jermaine Jenas has apologised to the “women with whom I was messaging” after he was sacked from the BBC. “I am ashamed, and I am deeply sorry,” the 41-year-old former footballer said in an interview with the Sun newspaper. “I have let myself down, my family, friends and colleagues down, and I owe everyone an apology — especially the women with whom I was messaging.
I am so, so sorry. “I am sorry for what I have put them through. I think it would be fair to say I have a problem.
“I know I self-sabotage and have a self-destructive streak when it comes to my relationship especially, and I know I need help. And I am getting help. “I have made a lot of mistakes, and I am asking myself a lot of questions at the moment.
I know there’s a lot of work that needs to be done, and it will be hard.” Jermaine Jenas has apologised (Mike Egerton/PA) Jenas said he fell below the standard of responsibility that “needs to be upheld when you’re a member of the BBC”, but insisted there was no criminality involved. “I did nothing illegal — these were inappropriate messages between two consenting adults,” he said.
Jenas has been married to model Ellie Penfold for 13 years..
