Inside Jermaine Jenas’ split with wife of 13 years Ellie, from sexting scandal to hope of reconciliation and Xmas snub

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JERMAINE JENAS and his woman of 13 years Ellie person separated, pursuing his sexting ungraded and axing from the BBC.

The erstwhile One Show big and Match of the Day pundit was sacked from his £190,000-per-year job with the broadcaster, aft helium was accused of sending inappropriate substance messages to 2 pistillate colleagues.

Jermaine Jenas and Ellie Penfold astatine  Wimbledon.Getty
Jermaine Jenas and Ellie Penfold person separated[/caption]
Jermaine Jenas successful  an interview.Andrew Styczynski
Jenas revealed each to The Sun astir his sexting scandal[/caption]
Jermaine Jenas and his household  by a lake.Jenas, Ellie and their children airs for a household vacation snapInstagram @jjenas

The ex-footballer vowed to prevention his marriage.

However Ellie has released a connection connected Instagram revealing they person parted ways.

It read: “I ne'er imagined I would person to stock thing truthful idiosyncratic with the public, but fixed the situation, I consciousness it’s necessary.

“After 16 years unneurotic and 4 fantastic children, Jermaine and I person decided to portion ways.

“We volition stay friends and proceed to co-parent. We kindly inquire that you respect our children’s privateness during this challenging time.

“Thank you, Ellie.”

The determination volition beryllium a stroke to Jenas, who has returned to enactment astatine talkSPORT, aft helium publically apologised to Ellie “for each the BS” caused by the fallout.

SunSport looks inside their bittersweet split.

The aftermath

Jenas and Ellie were connected a household vacation successful Spain erstwhile helium was quizzed by BBC bosses astir his explicit substance messages to the pistillate workers.

He admitted sneaking disconnected to speech to his bosses successful a concealed video telephone astir the allegations.

When they returned, the Beeb made the determination to chopped ties with Jenas.

The ex-Tottenham midfielder, 42, insisted helium hadn’t done thing amerciable and the messages were exchanged by 2 consenting adults.

However, Ellie was near raging.

She kicked him retired of their £1million Hertfordshire mansion

In an interrogation with The Sun, helium said: “We’ve not truly spoken decently since. She’s perfectly raging.”

Trying to repair things

Jenas and Ellie tied the knot successful 2011.

They stock 2 daughters, Geneva and Olivia, and boy, Jacob, together.

Jenas besides has an older daughter, Sancha, from a erstwhile narration who lives successful the United States with her mother.

Privately, Jenas had hoped to prevention his marriage.

Jermaine Jenas successful  an interview.Andrew Styczynski
Jenas told america helium hoped to prevention the matrimony to Ellie[/caption]
Woman successful  a snakeskin bikini and straw hat.Instagram @elliejenas
After the sexting scandal, Ellie kicked Jenas retired of their £1m home[/caption]
Jermaine Jenas and Ellie Penfold with their Rottweiler.Instagram @jjenas
An incredibly atrocious Jenas apologised to his woman for his inappropriate substance messages[/caption]

He said backmost successful August: “It’s conscionable astir the children close now. It’s the school holidays and they’re trapped successful the location due to the fact that photographers are extracurricular my house.

“They’re like, ‘What’s going on, Daddy?’. It’s tough.”

He added: “I’ve got to instrumentality work and I’ve apologised to each of them.

“I don’t cognize what to accidental astir that, to beryllium honorable with you.

“It’s conscionable hard astatine location for the kids close now. My wife’s a existent one.

“My woman is coagulated and she’s amazing. She is kind. She conscionable needs immoderate time.”

In that time, Ellie launched her idiosyncratic attraction marque Preppy successful November astatine an lawsuit she was seen without her wedding ring.

While she shared photos connected Instagram of girls’ nights retired with her friends.

Ellie told The Sun: “It has been an incredibly hard and hard clip for myself and my family.

“My lone absorption has been connected our children and gathering my marque Preppy.

Three women taking a selfie successful  a wavy mirror.Instagram
Ellie seen connected a girls’ nighttime retired successful December[/caption]
Two women holding Preppy marque  quality   products.INSTAGRAM
When the ungraded broke, Ellie pushed herself towards her enactment with her marque Preppy[/caption]
Jermaine Jenas and his woman  Ellie.Instagram
Jenas shared a gushing tribute to congratulate his woman for her marque launch[/caption]

“Now I conscionable privation to determination forward.

“Naturally this has been hard for maine but my lone interest has been our children and that volition not change.”

Jenas besides posted his ain gushing praise for his woman connected societal media, pursuing her launch.

He wrote connected Instagram: “Couldn’t beryllium much arrogant of this woman, 3 years agone you had a large thought and this week you got to marque that thought a reality. 

“Starting a marque is hard enough, but moving hard and being committed to getting it done adjacent with each the B******T I’ve dragged you done precocious should beryllium capable grounds that you’ll marque it a success.”

Xmas snub

But, by the clip Christmas came, Ellie hadn’t thawed.

On Christmas Day, Jermaine was absent from immoderate photos she shared connected Instagram.

However, the kids were each beaming successful matching pyjamas successful 1 she posted of them lasting successful beforehand of a tree.

Intriguingly, they some shared a travel connected The Santa Steam Express with the kids.

Jenas, who was seen wearing his wedding ring, captioned the snaps: “Some Christmas amusive with the family.”

While Ellie posted the aforesaid pictures separately with emojis including a Christmas tree, dog, snowflake, snowman, and a heart.

Unfortunately, it didn’t enactment retired for the pair.

But, arsenic their societal media suggests, they volition beryllium putting their kids first, contempt their idiosyncratic woes.

Family successful  matching reddish  plaid pajamas by a Christmas tree.Instagram @elliejenas
Ellie shared a drawback of the children connected Christmas Day together[/caption]
Santa Claus with 3  children and stuffed animals.The household agreed for the children for a travel connected The Santa Express
A antheral   and a toddler laughing unneurotic  connected  a train.Jenas poses with 1 his children connected the household venture
Woman successful  teal formal  holding a pint of Guinness.Ellie wasn’t capable to forgive Jenas and confirmed their divided connected Instagram
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