Jermaine Jenas ‘ashamed’ as he admits sending explicit texts to colleagues
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He added: “These were two consenting adults I was speaking to. With one she made it clear she was interested.”
Well, not quite true they were consenting, more that they were of an age to be able to consent.
This opinion could change of coure. But at this point I tend to think it’s about the reaction of a bureaucracy. Because the BBC has just had the Huw Edwards thing they’re frit and going to fire anyone who even in hte slightest offends any mores at all. Like asking adult women whether they’re up for it or not.
As I say, more info could change that opinion of mine. But that’s where we are now…..
If it had been a non consenting boy, no one would have batted an eyelid.
Pity I’d hoped that he had said something utterly unforgiveable in BBC eyes such as “I think Trump and Farage are not all that bac.”
His conspicuous use of the terms “consenting adult” and “adult conversation” might suggest that the 41 year-old was sailing close to the wind of legality or at the very least what public opinion would deem acceptable behaviour for a married father of four. That’s before the possibility of coercion towards junior colleagues in todays “Me Too” world is taken into account.
Damage limitation by releasing the texts showing his side of the story would seem the obvious move, unless they don’t look very good.
If the women gave the creep their ‘phone numbers, what’s their problem? Sounds like they got a tingle between their legs and so handed over their numbers, and then whined when they didn’t like his unsubtle/unimaginative/explicit approaches…
“If the women gave the creep their ‘phone numbers, what’s their problem?”
Well, if the phone numbers were given for a valid business reason, using them for something extracurricular might just be unacceptable?
They could, of course, have opted to block his number?
Oh, silly me, what am I saying? No-one takes any personal responsibility anymore when you can go running to HR instead.
Alternative theory BBC has gone all Reithian and Jermain was sacked for non use of BBC English in his texts.
Well, the Huw saga started “He paid thousands of pounds for photos of a young man’s bottom” and we know how that ended. So who knows what this will end as?
Given it’s the cesspit that is the BBC, could be anything…
Like I said, she got the ick and thus its sexual harassment in the workplace. If she had been very happy to get his dick pics (which lets face it it probably was) then it wouldn’t have been. Schrodinger’s Sexual Harassment – nobody know whether it exists until a woman has looked at it.
Jim, If you can bring yourself to skim Jermaine Jenas’s jeremiad (which I did because I didn’t know who he was), you’ll see that he maintains that he didn’t send any pictures, anatomical or otherwise.
From what I read it sounds like a flirtation initially that got out of hand when she decided she wasn’t keen after all and he couldn’t let it go. Apparently his marriage was already on the rocks. In that situation a lot of people aren’t clear-headed and can’t evaluate the downside, which is going to be significant for him.
I’m not sure the BBC could have done anything else when the complainant complained.
And now I read of the pedo chauffeur who ran a taxi firm for the BBC. Are they about to discard the front that they are a broadcasting company and reveal it’s really a State enforced funded perv club?
Jenas has been put in a difficult situation.
Did he do what he is accused of?
My fave side is Aberdeen FC in Scotland. I think Jenas would have cost too much money for us.