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Why Jermaine Jenas' wife REALLY left him: Friends reveal 'last straw' in rocky marriage to KATIE HIND


Any of Ellie Penfold's 14,000 followers could be forgiven for wondering where her husband has been for the past seven months. On Tuesday she went public about the split.

Once a permanent fixture on her social media, former footballer and BBC presenter Jermaine Jenas hasn't appeared on it seen since August, when she shared snaps of a family sunshine holiday. It is, of course, no coincidence that just three weeks after she did so, the star – who was widely regarded as the future of the Beeb and indeed Gary Lineker's Match Of The Day successor – was sacked after being accused of sending unsolicited text messages to younger female colleagues. However, those who know Ellie – the mother of three of his children, Geneva, 11, Olivia, eight, and two-year-old Jacob (he has a daughter, Sancha, 16, from a previous relationship) – say she had been 'struggling with finding a way to move on' from the sexting scandal.

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