{"id":30154,"date":"2025-07-29T03:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T03:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/30154\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T03:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T03:20:07","slug":"alex-jones-admits-i-had-no-idea-as-bbc-one-show-co-presenter-sacked-tv-radio-showbiz-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/30154\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Jones admits ‘I had no idea’ as BBC One Show co-presenter sacked | TV & Radio | Showbiz & TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alex Jones<\/a> has opened up about her former co-star Jermaine Jenas<\/a> who was sacked by the BBC<\/a> and stripped of his presenting duties on The One Show and Match of the Day. The Welsh-born broadcaster, 48, has said she had “no idea” about complaints made against her former co-presenter Jermaine. The former Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> midfielder was removed from the presenting team at BBC’s<\/a> Match Of The Day and The One Show following alleged issues relating to workplace misconduct<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Before Jermaine was sacked in August, he had been a regular pundit on sports programmes and a presenter on BBC<\/a> Radio 5 Live. Alex has since revealed she had no idea about the complaints until he was sacked.<\/p>\n

In a new interview with the Big Issue, Alex said : “I very much take people on face value. But with JJ [Jenas] I didn’t know what was going on.<\/p>\n

“I had no idea. I thought he was taking extended leave.<\/p>\n

“The BBC<\/a> didn’t share with me what was going on until they actually dealt with it. And, you know, they did what they thought was right.<\/p>\n

“If that was my daughter and she felt uncomfortable with someone’s behaviour, I hope that whatever company she was working for would deal with it swiftly as well.”<\/p>\n

Jermaine issued an apology after he was axed, saying he had done “nothing illegal” and that “inappropriate messages” sent were “between two consenting adults”.<\/p>\n

Months later, his wife, Ellie Penfold, announced the couple had split up after 16 years together.<\/p>\n

Taking to Instagram<\/a>, she penned: “I never imagined I would have to share something so personal with the public, but given the situation, I feel it’s necessary.<\/p>\n

“After 16 years together and 4 wonderful children, Jermaine and I have decided to part ways.<\/p>\n

“We will remain friends and continue to co-parent.”<\/p>\n

The full interview with Alex Jones can be read in this week’s Big Issue, on sale now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Jones has opened up about her former co-star Jermaine Jenas who was sacked by the BBC and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[15859,18582,96,59,18581,15858,56,54,55,18583],"class_list":["post-30154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-alex-jones","tag-bbc-one-show","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-jermaine-jenas","tag-the-one-show","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-workplace-misconduct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}