Jermaine Jenas was sacked from the BBC while live on air with TalkSPORT– but it is not the first time he has been given the boot.
The former footballer lost his job at the Beeb over unsolicited flirty text messages he allegedly sent to a female colleague at The One Show.
According the the Sun, some other women have since come forward to complain about the presenter who was muted to replace Gary Linekar on Match of the Day.
But ironically, while the news was breaking yesterday (August 22), Jenas, 41, was speaking live on TalkSPORT about his brutal ‘cut throat’ axing from Tottenham Hotspur.
He realised he was no longer wanted after turning up to Spurs’ fancy new training ground – only to be denied access.
The former England star was speaking about Raheem Sterling and Ben Chilwell being shunned from Chelsea when he relived his own experience.
He said: “Mine was bad like that. Spurs had built this brand new training facility and I was there for about six months and I thought, ‘this place is absolutely stunning, it’s beautiful’.
“But what it was, when you walked in through reception - so at this point Andre Villas-Boas had just joined the club. I did the whole pre-season.
“My achilles weren’t great, I’ll be totally honest. So I wasn’t anywhere near my best but obviously thought I’d be given a bit of time to kind of get myself up to speed and maybe around Christmas time I could fight for my place in the team.”
But Jenas did not get the chance to show his worth, after being savagely denied access to training eight years after joining in 2005.
Remembering the bonkers story, he told listeners: “I literally walked through the door, and we used to have this turnstile type thing where it had a fingerprint ID, so you put your thumb on it, it would spin through and you’d go in.
“And I put my thumb on it and it just went [error sound]. It just went red! So I went ‘oh, wipe my thumb a bit’, it just went red. I looked at the people at reception and they put their heads down, everyone just dived for cover. Nobody even spoke to me or pulled me to say, ‘look this is not going to be happening' or anything like that.
“It was just cut throat as that. But that’s the way it is, unfortunately, in football it’s a business and that’s what happens.”
Jenas played 202 times for Tottenham where he scored 26 goals and made 23 assists. He was also in the last Spurs team to win a trophy when they beat Chelsea in the Carabao Cup final in 2008.
After leaving the club, he had spells at Nottingham Forest and QPR before later hanging up his boots to become a TV presenter and pundit.