Jermaine Jenas made his return to punditry at Arsenal's showdown with Liverpool.
Mail Sport filmed the former Tottenham and England star working on the touchline for an overseas broadcaster ahead of the match.
It marks his first foray into punditry since he was abruptly sacked in August by the BBC from his £190,000 job for sending 'inappropriate messages' to two female colleagues.
He later admitted to the messages and said they left him feeling ashamed and fighting to save his 13-year marriage to Ellie Penfold.
Jenas was axed from The One Show and Match of The Day. He was also met with similar allegations from other women in the weeks that followed, which he later denied.
After the scandal emerged, two new women told MailOnline how Jenas had also targeted them. One revealed how Jenas sent her an unsolicited picture of his manhood while he was working at the World Cup in Qatar two years ago.
And another, predating his mainstream broadcasting success with The One Show by several years, accused Jenas of sending her unsolicited sexual messages while he was shift working for BT Sport in 2017.
Jenas joined The One Show in 2020 as a stand-in co-host following the departure of Matt Baker and he was made a permanent fixture the following year.
He had been a regular pundit on sports programmes Match Of The Day and Match Of The Day 2 and a presenter on BBC Radio 5 Live.
The father-of-four had been widely regarded as a natural successor to replace Gary Lineker as host of Match Of The Day, but was noticeably absent from the first episode of the new season.
On his departure, a BBC spokesperson previously said: 'We can confirm that he is no longer part of our presenting line-up.'
Jenas has criticised how his former employer handled his sacking and has said he will be speaking to his lawyers about the situation.
Upon his sacking from the BBC, Jenas told his former female colleagues he was 'genuinely sorry' for sending inappropriate messages, issuing an apology after being told not to contact the two women due to 'legal process'.
But he insisted they were 'between two consenting adults' and that his behaviour was not illegal.
When he was axed by the BBC following claims by two female workers, the former Match of the Day host initially denied the claims to his wife before admitting to them.
He said in an interview with The Sun after confessing to the allegations: 'I feel ashamed. I feel I've let everybody down - friends, family, colleagues.'
The former midfielder also hit out at the BBC for the way the corporation handled his axeing, saying: 'The handling of the situation wasn't great. It was quick — and hell.
'I don't think there was a game plan for when they were going to announce they'd fired me.
'I think different departments were being told different things. I think it's shocking.'
Jenas said that he had hoped to speak to the two female colleagues who had made the allegations, but had not been able to when the process got underway.
'When it was all unfolding and I knew I was losing my job, I asked HR if I could contact the two women directly and apologise to both of them.
'But because of the legal process, I wasn't allowed. I didn't get the opportunity to say sorry to them at that particular point when I really wanted to apologise.
'I really want to apologise from the bottom of my heart in terms of what I've put them through.'
Addressing the women directly, he said: 'I'm genuinely sorry for what I've done to you. I always thought it was consensual and a two-way thing.'
One woman, who organised events during the World Cup in Qatar has told how Jenas begged her for bikini photos before asking 'You want my boy now?' - and sending her a picture of his manhood.
The woman, 38 said when the disgraced ex-footballer bombarded her with flirty WhatsApp messages after meeting her while she was working, telling her 'I wanna see it now' and 'you know what it's like when you're away'. Jenas is understood to deny the claims.
She said she met him in December 2022 after going to the capital, Doha, to work for an events firm organising high-end parties at one of the city's top hotels.
The woman said she first met him in the hotel's restaurant, where she and another friend had stopped for a drink before her shift. The star was with fellow pundits Gary Lineker, Rio Ferdinand, Micah Richards and Ashley Williams.
Jenas booked tables for him and others for events at the five-star hotel three times during the month-long World Cup.
She recalled: 'They started to talk with us and we told them that we worked there. It was my job to promote the events and we'd get a commission for each client, so I told them about the parties and gave them my number so I could reserve them a table.
'Jermaine turned up the next night for dinner, then stayed for the party. He started messaging me that night.'
He sent a 'Hello you' and heart-eyes emoji. When the woman replied with 'Olaaa' he wrote 'This language does it for me' and 'U don't need to say sorry I love it'.
His flirting continued after the woman replied to a message from Jenas saying 'that's why you're the best' with a sticker of a woman giving a hand heart. 'I keep thinking these are pics of u when they arrive,' he wrote.
He continued: 'When it arrives I'm like.. oh nice finally I get to see this body'.
Jenas got in touch again asking to reserve a table. She wasn't on duty that night, but he messaged her while he was there, telling her: 'Not bad, but not enough girls.'
A few days later Jenas messaged again, inviting her to Nammos, an elite beach resort and restaurant. She told him a friend had come to visit and they were thinking of going for a day out to the desert.
He replied: 'Ok… I mean I do wanna see u in a bikini so feel free to put her off for a day… u can't blame me.'
When she replied: 'I can, but I won't' he wrote: 'You won't what? Wear a bikini?'.
She said she wouldn't blame him - and Jenas answered: 'Lol good. I wanna see it now'.
The woman replied: 'I'm working. And I'm not the type who sends pics. I hate it'.
Jenas then wrote: 'I know, but you know what it's like when you're away.
'Since I saw u it's been on my mind, that's all. I just like the tease.'
When Jenas later found out she had gone to Nammos with her friend instead, but not told him, he wrote: 'Not happy… U rocking that bikini I wanted to see.' He then messaged: 'That was your cue to show me the bikini x'.
Jenas messaged the woman telling her he had two spare tickets to a Calvin Harris gig. She said she couldn't make it and that she was too tired to go out.
He continued messaging her from the show, gently mocking her for not going out, telling her 'maybe you're getting old beautiful x'.
She told him she would 'Netflix and chill' instead, and he wrote: 'I've been trying to Netflix and chill with u'.
Jenas had also told her that Calvin Harris his 'boy' - or close friend - the reason he'd managed to get tickets to his gig. When the woman didn't understand what he meant by 'my boy', he wrote: 'Hang on. You want my boy now?' and a laughing emoji.
He then sent her a photo of him holding his private parts.
The woman remembers: 'I was shocked, I felt violated. The whole time I'd replied to his messages because I felt I had to, it was my job to bring in clients, but always keeping my distance and I said I wouldn't send him the photos he wanted.
'Apart from that, we were in Qatar, where sex outside marriage is illegal. What he wanted could have got us locked up for seven years.
'But he kept insisting. I thought: "you are shameless." And I told him: "let's talk about this." He couldn't control himself and send me a a photo of his penis.
'I didn't reply and he later sent a message saying: "Didn't you like it?" I still didn't reply and after a few more messages he blocked me.'
The woman returned home after the World Cup and said she tried to forget the interaction with Jenas, until an English colleague told her about the accusations that led to his sacking.
She said: 'I was hoping never to hear about him again, but his sacking from the BBC just confirmed the type of person I thought he was. A liar, a traitor who doesn't respect his family and doesn't respect women who make it clear they aren't interested.'
During his football career, Jenas appeared for England and played for Nottingham Forest, Newcastle United, Tottenham, Aston Villa and Queens Park Rangers.
He also hosts Formula E race coverage for TNT Sports, which was previously BT Sport.
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