Axed TV presenter Jermaine Jenas has posted a video of himself dancing shirtless around a set of pancakes and, alongside it, wrote a seemingly cryptic caption as he admitted he doesn't care about "how the story is told" now

Jermaine Jenas has posted a video of himself dancing shirtless around pancakes. The former TV presenter, 43, had made a post-football career out of appearing on Match of the Day and The One Show, but in 2024 was part of a sexting scandal that saw him hauled off air.

At the time of the controversy, Jermaine was married to model Ellie Penfold and they had been together for more than a decade but once his X-rated texts to two female colleagues were uncovered, it led to the breakdown of his marriage.

On Saturday, Jermaine took to social media where he captioned a video of himself with a seemingly cryptic message. He wrote: "I no longerr care how the story gets told. F*** you & them...Respectfully"

The post comes just weeks after Jermaine, who has four children with his ex-wife, admitted he doesn't think he will ever work on screen again in the aftermath of the scandal.

He said: "It feels the 10, 12 years I had in television is done. It’s been a while since I have been back on TV, which is tough to take, but it is part of the process."

Speaking in a video on Facebook, he said: "When I finished my football career, one of the biggest questions I had was 'how did you do it' from so many people.

"There was no golden bridge for me to walk over, there was a lot of hard work and fear, and me putting myself way out of my comfort zone. I find myself in a similar situation now, it feels the 10, 12 years I had in television is done. It’s been a while since I have been back on TV, which is tough to take, but it is part of the process.

"That uncertainty and that fear about what my future is looking like is back again. I have to lean back on those experiences. I'm trying to go to the gym every day, trying to wake up early and do as many positive things as possible, believing at some point something positive is going to happen."

The former football star, who earned around £200,000 a year at the BBC for his work on the FA Cup, Match of the Day and fronting coverage at the World Cup, went on to say that there must be others who feel the same – and he wants to be a "guiding light" to those people.

He added: "The mini improvements you can make in your life day in and day out to try and keep in the right direction, knowing that at some point something has to change, keep doing the right things, keep doing positive things and things will eventually drop in your favour."

He revealed the texts happened during a bad time for him and his now ex-wife, saying the pair were in turmoil at the time. Jermaine, now said to be living in France with his new girlfriend, Anne Leplaideur, likened the texts to something out of the raunchy novel, Fifty Shades of Grey. The scandal culminated with an HR meeting with senior BBC execs that included reading out of the string of inappropriate texts he'd sent before his contract was officially ended.

In an interview with The Sun at the time he added: “I am ashamed, and I am deeply sorry." He also revealed that while on holiday he'd had another meeting with BBC execs about the texts, that he'd lied to his family about.

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