Jermaine Jenas was sacked by the BBC on Thursday for in the workplace. Jenas, 41, is alleged to have sent unsolicited flirty text messages to a female college while working on The One Show - which he presents along with appearing on Match of the Day. And amid reports of the fallout, are rumours his wife will "stand by him".
The ex- footballer tied the knot with Ellie Penfold in 2011 - and they have since gone on to start a family with three kids, two daughters Geneva and Olivia, and a baby son Jacob. He also shares another child, Sancha, 16, with a former partner who lives in America. The Daily Star is now on WhatsApp and we want you to join us! Through the app, we'll send you the sassiest showbiz stories, some naught headline and a seismic smattering of aliens.
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To leave our community click on the name at the top of your screen and choose Exit group. If you’re curious, you can read our . Ellie, who met Jenas when he was playing for in 2009, is a former model - and she even posed for Katie Price, aka Jordan.
Back in 2012, Price was launching her new swimwear range when she roped in help of Ellie to pose in the low-cut pink swimsuit. Ellie and Jenas were already wed when she posed with Price, but it wasn't always smooth sailing for the duo. Jenas admitted it wasn't exactly love at first site for his beau: “It was love at first sight when I saw her, but not for her.
She wasn't impressed by this cheeky, cocky guy who thought she'd be bowled over when I drove up in my Ferrari. “She actually made me get rid of the car because it was too noisy! She's told me she thought when we first met that I was a bit of an over-confident idiot, but I won her over finally.” The former midfielder and his stunning wife have now settled down together in their £1million house in Hertfordshire.
Jenas has been a regular on TV since his retirement from professional football, but his new found presenting role but a strain on the relationship: "I would say up until about five years ago it was quite stressful for us both. "There was a lot of competing going on in our relationship and a lot of 'you get to do this' or 'you don't do this. It was a lot to do with the kids and the fact that I had this new career starting and I was out and about and meeting new people and going to shows.
.. "It was all glitzy but for my wife it was like nappies, milk.
.. I am a very hands-on dad and I'm always trying to help but still she wasn't getting that fulfilment in her own life.
"I had to address it and over the last five years I always say to her once or twice or year just go away for three days or something. "In the summer and coming up now she will usual go to Ibiza with her mates and have a good blowout and that's for her not to have to wake up or think about the kids, and I've just come back from Scotland playing three days of golf and she will say the same to me, go and play golf, relax, enjoy yourself." The pair appear quite loved up on social media - after sharing snaps on each others profiles.
Only back in May, Jenas was fawning over the brunette beauty, with whom he tied the knot in 2011. Sharing a collection of holiday pics showing her in bikinis on luxury boats and enjoying a meal at a restaurant, he wrote on Instagram: "Happy birthday Mrs j I love you..
. we love you more than you could ever imagine..
you deserve the world x." Jenas addressed his sacking on talkSPORT on Thursday evening: "I can't really talk about it. As you can probably see, I'm not happy about it.
But currently as it stands I'm going to have to let the lawyers deal with it. "There's two sides..
. that's all I can say now." He added: "I'm not happy about this situation.
I'm going to be speaking to my lawyers about it, is all I can say right now.".
