Jermaine Jenas has put his family home on the market for £4.95 million, 18 months after being sacked from his £190,000-a-year BBC role for sending inappropriate texts to female colleagues. The six-bedroom property near Barnet, North London, features an indoor swimming pool, sauna, steam room, gym, cinema room and playroom.
The 43-year-old former footballer bought the house for £2.8 million in 2006 and lived there with his wife Ellie, 37, and their children until their split following the scandal in August 2024. Jenas has since registered his new company, Coldline Ltd, at a £3 million terraced house in Hampstead, but is not believed to be living there.
Jenas admitted sending suggestive messages to two female colleagues on The One Show and apologised. He said his wife was 'absolutely raging' and kicked him out of the bedroom after discovering the texts. He also confessed to lying to her during a family holiday in Marbella, where he secretly took a Zoom call with BBC bosses about the messages.
In March 2025, Ellie announced their marriage was over in an Instagram post, saying they would remain friends and co-parent their four children. Jenas also has an older teenage daughter from a previous relationship. The former Tottenham and England midfielder had been touted as Gary Lineker's successor on Match of the Day, but his TV career was 'wiped out' by the scandal.
