Jermaine Jenas speaks out on BBC dismissal ahead of talkSPORT return

Jermaine Jenas insists helium has taken work for the behaviour which led to his dismissal from the BBC arsenic helium prepares to instrumentality to broadcasting.

The erstwhile Tottenham and England midfielder was dismissed from his roles connected Match Of The Day and The One Show successful August aft messages helium sent to 2 women came to light.

Jenas apologised for his actions and is present set to instrumentality to the nationalist oculus arsenic portion of talkSPORT’s sum of the FA Cup fourth-round necktie betwixt Aston Villa and Spurs connected Sunday.

It was reported earlier this week that that has caused interest among immoderate members of unit astatine the vigor presumption who are refusing to enactment with Jenas.

In an interrogation broadcast by talkSPORT, the 41-year-old accepted his behaviour was inappropriate.’

He said: ‘The biggest happening successful this full concern is astir taking work and that has been astatine the forefront of my mind.

‘You request to instrumentality work for your actions. There’s a crushed wherefore you’re successful this position, and there’s a crushed wherefore this has happened.

‘Once you benignant of 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.

‘I’m precise grateful to talkSPORT for giving maine the accidental to travel speech to yourself and get backmost to doing what I emotion most.

‘This is astir maine looking inwards, making immoderate improvements and coming backmost a amended person.’

Jenas added that the past fewer months had been ‘extremely pugnacious for myself and my family’ and said his main absorption was connected supporting his woman and children.

 ‘I made a mistake. It was a mistake that is thing that maine and my woman and my household person to woody with,’ helium said.

‘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.

‘It’s a batch of hard enactment that you enactment into the job, but astatine the aforesaid time, it tin beryllium taken distant from you similar that. That’s 1 happening that I’ve recognised.

‘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.’

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