Jermaine Jenas doesn't hold back on BBC staff – 'They just lie to your face'
Jermaine Jenas' BBC career came to a devastating end after the former Premier League star was embroiled in a sexting scandal with two ex-colleagues
Jermaine Jenas has opened up about what t is like working for the BBC
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Jermaine Jenas blasted the BBC for lying to employees as the former footballer claimed the television industry is dishonest.
The 42-year-old was sacked from the broadcaster last August for inappropriate behaviour. Jenas - who co-hosted The One Show with Alex Jones - later admitted that he had sent explicit messages to two former BBC employees.
On top of his departure from the BBC, the ex-England star was also dropped from his talent agency while his marriage to wife of 14 years, Ellie Penfold, ended after the pair's split was confirmed in March.
Four months on, Jenas has started to slowly reappear in the public eye. The former Tottenham Hotspur and Newcastle midfielder was a guest on The Dressing Room Podcast, hosted by ex-Chelsea players Carlton Cole, Joe Cole and Wayne Bridge as Jenas detailed the difference between the football and television industries.
"I don't think there's been a footballer that has gone on a day-time, evening live television slot and presented in an entertainment space," he said. "It was crazy, I think that side of it was strange if I'm totally honest with you.
"I think what you realise when you go into television is the football world is very different because we are naturally competitive. Also, I've always been the type of person that's very much, 'If I'm not doing something right, just tell me', because it's like that in training. If I'm not playing, I go knock on the manager's door, 'what am I not doing?'
Jenas' marriage with wife Ellie Penfold ended earlier this year
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"'You're going out too much, you're not working hard enough, you're not in the gym enough,' right, I'm going to do all those things and then I want to be playing, it's simple."
Jenas claimed gossiping is rife in the television space and saw it first-hand during his time on The One Show when working with stand-in presenters. "Television is not like that, they just talk behind your back," he revealed.
"Everybody in television would just lie to your face. When I was a main presenter on the show, sometimes when Alex Jones wouldn't be working because she was having children at the time, I was working with various female presenters.
The former footballer called out the television industry
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"We'd come off air and they'd go, 'Oh did you like her JJ', I'm like, 'Yeah she's really good, it's her first time, she's done really well.' And then I'd just see them talking c*** about them going, 'Yeah she's not coming back.'"
Almost a year on from his BBC exit, Jenas remains a contributor on talkSPORT and now has his own podcast alongside boxing star Derek Chisora called ' Let Me Tell You Something with Derek and JJ'.
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