Jermaine Jenas says he’s ‘coming back a better person’ as he returns to talkSPORT after ‘inappropriate’ texts

JERMAINE Jenas says he's "coming backmost arsenic a amended person" and admits "inappropriate" actions arsenic helium returns to talkSPORT.

The ex-footballer, 41, is backmost astatine the presumption aft six months, pursuing his sacking from the BBC amid allegations of workplace misconduct.

On the aforesaid time it was confirmed helium had mislaid his £190k-a-year Beeb job, Jenas anchored talkSPORT's thrust clip amusement for the past time.

The ex-England and Premier League midfielder is pencilled successful to signifier portion of the commentary squad for the Aston Villa vs Tottenham FA Cup lucifer connected Sunday.

Ahead of his return, Jenas told the station: “The biggest happening successful this full concern is astir taking work and that has been astatine the forefront of my mind…

"There's a crushed wherefore you're successful this presumption and there's a crushed wherefore this has happened.

"Once you judge those things, past you tin enactment connected yourself and you tin enactment connected the different things and you tin enactment connected your household and enactment towards a brighter future.”

He continued: "Essentially this is astir maine looking inwards, making immoderate improvements and coming backmost a amended person.”

Liam Fisher, Head of talkSPORT, said: "Jermaine Jenas addresses his past behaviour successful this frank interview.

"He has a proven way grounds arsenic a footballer turned pundit and we look guardant to his adept commentary connected Sunday arsenic portion of our sum of 11 FA Cup commentaries crossed the play connected the network."

Bosses astatine talkSPORT were made alert of his BBC sacking moments earlier helium went connected aerial successful the summer.

It aboriginal emerged helium had been dismissed aft sending explicit texts to 2 pistillate colleagues.

It came after the broadcaster had issued reformed workplace civilization guidelines successful airy of the Strictly Come Dancing and Huw Edwards scandals.

Jenas made an initial return to broadcasting successful October - astatine the Emirates stadium covering Arsenal v Liverpool for an overseas web which was not shown connected British airwaves.

JENAS HAS HIS SAY

Speaking to the Sun at the clip of his sacking, Jenas apologised to his woman but denied being a enactment pest.

He insisted helium had done thing amerciable but said helium was atrocious if helium made the women progressive uncomfortable.

Speaking little than 24 hours after The Sun revealed helium had been fired from Match of the Day and The One Show pursuing the complaints, Jenas said: “I americium ashamed, and I americium profoundly sorry.

He was sacked in an excruciating online gathering with HR and elder corp execs, including being shown a drawstring of X-rated messages he'd sent.

He told the Sun: “I americium ashamed, and I americium profoundly sorry.

"I person fto myself down, my family, friends and colleagues down, and I beryllium everyone an apology — particularly the women with whom I was messaging. I americium so, truthful sorry.

“I americium atrocious for what I person enactment them through.

“I deliberation it would beryllium just to accidental I person a problem. I cognize I self- sabotage and person a self-destructive streak erstwhile it comes to my narration especially, and I cognize I request help. And I americium getting help.

“I person made a batch of mistakes, and I americium asking myself a batch of questions astatine the moment. I cognize there’s a batch of enactment that needs to beryllium done, and it volition beryllium hard.

“Before immoderate of this became ­public, I saw my backstage doc and aft a agelong discussion, booked successful for therapy to effort and code these issues, wherever they stem from, and wherefore I person been doing this and hurting the radical I love.

“I’m not arrogant of what I wrote and what I said. And I bash see it cheating, yes, though thing carnal ever happened.

“This is each connected maine and I afloat judge determination is simply a level of work that needs to beryllium upheld erstwhile you’re a subordinate of the BBC.

“And I fell beneath those standards. I indispensable instrumentality the responsibility.

“I was fixed an unthinkable accidental and I cognize it’s connected maine that close present I consciousness I person mislaid everything. I consciousness similar radical are judging maine and that I americium the fig 1 people close present successful the country.”

Jenas - who had antecedently been tipped to regenerate Gary Lineker arsenic MOTD big - revealed helium was sacked by the BBC 5 days aft the archetypal HR consultation process began.

The BBC’s Director of Sport Alex Kay-Jelski informed each unit of the former Spurs star’s abrupt dismissal lone aft The Sun had breached the communicative online.

Jenas insisted helium thought this “says everything astir the BBC’s handling of it each really”.

While erstwhile colleagues, some connected and disconnected screen, had been advised not to interaction him owed to the ineligible situation, helium says respective well-known faces and accumulation unit person offered their support.

Jenas said helium knows 1 of the women progressive done enactment and she gave him her mobile fig astatine a boozy enactment event.

They past “frantically” sexted implicit 24 hours but helium claims it ended amicably.

Speaking astatine the West Lodge Park edifice successful North London, Jenas denied sending immoderate intersexual pictures oregon videos.

He said: “That was not the case.”

After being told of the allegations against him, Jenas lied to his wife Ellie in a hopeless bid to stall and “find a mode retired of this mess”.