Jermaine Jenas makes return to football commentary six months after being sacked by BBC

Former Tottenham and England midfielder Jermaine Jenas was backmost down the mic for Spurs' FA Cup clash against Aston Villa connected Sunday six months aft his sexting controversy

Jermaine Jenas made his comeback connected commentary work for Aston Villa's FA Cup triumph implicit Tottenham connected Sunday - six months aft being sacked by the BBC implicit allegations of workplace misconduct.

The former Tottenham and England prima was axed successful August implicit claims helium had sent inappropriate texts to pistillate colleagues and has not worked successful broadcasting since.

But this play Jenas was backmost connected the airwaves for lucifer work with talkSPORT, the vigor presumption wherever helium past appeared earlier quality of his indiscretions came to light.

The 41-year-old antecedently worked arsenic a presenter connected the One Show, Match of the Day and besides fronted sum of Formula E connected TNT Sports.

Jenas, who is joined to woman Ellie and has 3 children with her, had already appeared connected talkSPORT this Friday, wherever helium was taken to task astir his actions by presenter Shebahn Aherne.

When asked if helium felt his behaviour was "wildly inappropriate", helium replied: "Yeah, of course. That's what taking work is about. It was inappropriate. I made a mistake. It was a mistake that is thing that maine and my woman and my household person to woody with.

"I deliberation that the large happening present is that your vocation is 1 thing. I worked 10 years post-retirement from being a footballer and I tin instrumentality it arsenic acold backmost arsenic I privation from starting from thing to becoming a footballer to getting myself successful a precise fortunate presumption to enactment connected television.

"When it is taken distant from you similar that, the lone radical determination for you is your household and friends and it's the radical that are truly adjacent to you. That's what has been my biggest enactment strategy during this play of time.

"Me and my woman person had immoderate honorable conversations. Me and my household person had immoderate honorable conversations and that's who this is truly between. So moving forward, that's wherever my absorption is, making definite that my kids are okay, my woman is supported and that I'm continually moving connected improving myself."

Jenas made a full of 436 appearances arsenic a player, making 21 caps for England earlier retiring successful 2013 - rapidly moving into punditry and featuring heavy connected shows similar Match of the Day and Football Focus.

He was adjacent tipped arsenic a aboriginal successor for Gary Lineker connected Match of the Day earlier his sacking by the BBC.

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