Jermaine Jenas sacked by the BBC

[Slave]

This seems to have come out of nowhere:

Jermaine Jenas, who presented The One Show and appeared on Match of the Day for the BBC, has been sacked by the corporation following complaints about workplace conduct.

The former footballer, 41, has been taken off air from both primetime shows.

BBC News understands his contract was terminated earlier this week, because of alleged issues relating to workplace behaviour. It followed allegations involving digital communications such as texts, which were raised with the corporation a few weeks ago. A BBC spokesperson said: "We can confirm Jermaine Jenas is no longer part of our presenting line-up." He was last on air earlier in the summer.

Jenas earned £190,000 - £194,999 at the BBC for his work on the FA Cup, Match of the Day and the World Cup.

His work on The One Show was for BBC Studios, the BBC's commercial production company, so his salary is not in the public domain.

He also works for talkSport, where he is currently presenting a show on air, and was broadcasting when the news broke.

Jenas is also employed by TNT Sports, a group of pay television sports channels. They told the BBC they were not making any comment. However his profile has been removed from his agent's website.

I'm not sure it's a major loss as far as presenting talent goes, and maybe the BBC are being over-cautious at the moment. Nonetheless, he seemed pleasant enough, so it'll be interesting to see what emerges...

 

[GNL]

Booked and busy!

 

[Rita]

UNSOLICITED TEXTS to a female member of staff from The One Show apparently…

 

[Kratz]

Do these men (because it’s usually men) ever learn?

 

[Finn]

A truly awful presenter.

Refreshing to have a heterosexual telly perv again though

 

[Jark]

it's always men! and no.

 

[Finn]

Booked and busy!

 

[Kratz]

That ought to hold those SOBs.

 

[D5K]

 

[Ellie]

 

[Halli]

Quite fancy Jermaine. I want to know what he's been up to.

 

[straightorbroken]

I hope he reveals all soon too

 

[Finn]

I hear (from the current Mail Online front page) that his ex-model wife 'is standing by him' as 'multiple women' come forward. And that the axed BBC star faces fresh 'inappropriate behaviour' claims as insiders say they were 'horrified' by his messages to female junior staff member

It's not yet clear if his ex-model wife likes to flaunt her curves or not, but I do hope she breaks her silence with a show of support in the coming days.

 

[Ellie]

 

[dmlaw]

Surprised to learn that his excuse of ‘it was Michael MacIntyre who sent all those dick pics as well’ was not accepted by BBC management.