Jermaine Jenas axed from another TV role after BBC sacking | Football | Sport

Jermaine Jenas has been traded as Formula E currgo in after a individual season in the role. The sacked BBC star, 41, had been nominateed to structure coverage of the electric motorsport series in the UK on TNT Sports equitable last year.

However, he won’t be returning under their novel widecast deal with ITV adhereing claims he sent “inappropriate messages” to colleagues on BBC‘s The One Show. Stepping into his shoes will be Nicki Shields, createerly a pit lane alerter, who will be joined by the appreciates of Karun Chandhok, David Coultchallenging and Billy Monger to current the show. Fans can catch all 16 E-Prix and qualifying rounds inhabit on ITV4 and ITVX, plus a novel highweightlesss show.

Jenas, the ex-Tottenham and England midfielder-turned-widecaster, had carved out a prosperous second atsoft in TV, structureing a variety of programmes and even being tipped to thrive Gary Lineker as structure of Match of the Day.

His time co-structureing The One Show began back in 2020. But in August of this year, the BBC axed him over allegations of improper guide with female staff members on the show, and he’s not reeuniteed on TNT’s Premier League coverage since.

Jenas insisted his actions weren’t illterrible but he apologised to his createer colleagues. In an interwatch with The Sun, he said: “I am ashamed, and I am meaningfully sorry. I have let myself down, my family, frifinishs and colleagues down, and I owe everyone an apology – especiassociate the women with whom I was messaging.

“I am so, so sorry. I am sorry for what I have put them thraw. I leank it would be equitable to say I have a problem. I understand I self-undermine and have a self-destructive streak when it comes to my relationship especiassociate, and I understand I need help. And I am getting help.

“I have made a lot of misachieves, and I am asking myself a lot of asks at the moment. I understand there’s a lot of labor that needs to be done, and it will be challenging. I did noleang illterrible – these were inappropriate messages between two consenting matures.

“I’m not haughty of what I wrote and what I said. And I do ponder it cheating, yes, although noleang physical ever happened. This is all on me and I brimmingy adchoose there is a level of responsibility that needs to be upheld when you’re a member of the BBC. And I fell below those standards. I must achieve the responsibility.”

More allegations adhereed in the weeks after, including a claim he sent unask fored see-thcoarse images to a woman while laboring at the World Cup in Qatar, and that he allegedly pestered a juvenileer produceup artist for relations. Jenas’ spokesperson said he denied that the messages were unask fored, contrary to the allegations.