‘Ashamed’ Jermaine Jenas admits to ‘inappropriate’ texts in explosive interview after BBC sacking-Kitty Chrisp-Entertainment – Metro

He’s ‘ashamed’ (Picture: Nigel French/PA Wire)

Jermaine Jenas has admitted to sending texts in an explosive interview after the BBC sacked him, in which he said how ‘deeply sorry’ he is.

The presenter apologised if he made the women he had messaged feel uncomfortable, and although he admits the texts were consistent with cheating he said nothing illegal happened.

He told The Sun: ‘I did nothing illegal – these were inappropriate messages between two consenting adults.

‘I am ashamed, and I am deeply sorry.

‘I have let myself down, my family, friends and colleagues down, and I owe everyone an apology – especially the women with whom I was messaging. I am so, so sorry.

‘I am sorry for what I have put them through.

‘I think it would be fair to say I have a problem. I know I self-sabotage and have a self-destructive streak when it comes to my relationship especially, and I know I need help. And I am getting help.’

He continued to say he’d made ‘a lot of mistakes’ and has booked in for therapy to ‘try and address’ his ‘issues’ which mean he is ‘hurting the people [I] love’.

‘I do consider it cheating, yes, although nothing physical ever happened,’ he added.

The former One Show host said he fully accepts the level of responsibility he had as a member of the BBC, and he ‘fell below’ those standards.

Jenas added that he feels he’s ‘lost everything’ now, and is the country’s ‘number one target’.

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