They always need therapy the poor poppets

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Jermaine Jenas the latest
Apparently now receiving "therapy". Wonder what therapy cures you from being an in appropriate creep.
time after time men caught with their pants down and off they trot to a therapist whilst I bet the women left behind are having to crack on without having their egos massaged.
makes me 🤬🤬

His half arsed apology really annoyed me.

Im sorry but we were consenting adults.
I’m sorry but she came onto me in a bar.
Im sorry but we did nothing illegal.
I’m sorry but there was alcohol involved.

Pathetic really. He’s only sorry he got caught.

It's because they want to sound like they're the victim of something. Like men who sleep around suddenly need therapy for sex addiction when they're found out. They want to project an image that their behaviour wasn't their fault, they are just the victim of a mental health disorder.

I mean, I think it's great that he's having therapy. I think most people would benefit from (good) therapy and we should in general be supportive of this. But in situations like this where the first reaction to being found out about something is to publicise that you're having therapy it's just part of a cynical PR exercise to try to save your image.

@Bluemincat you articulated it far better than me
well
said

Another fool that thinks women are pick and mix sweets. He's destroyed a great career, has been dropped by everyone and has fucked up his marriage for an overactive libido.

Thing is, he was unbelievably fortunate to have got where he was in TV. He’s mediocre at best. He’s not annoying or offensive, but good grief he hardly oozes personality and charisma. He should have thanked his lucky stars he had the career he had, not completely fucked it up by sending some saucy texts.

Therapy is all well and good, but I could sum things up for him without being paid £75 an hour. Nice, decent married men don’t flirt with girls at work. Scumbag ex-footballers do. Be a decent guy Jermaine. Don’t be a Kyle Walker.

Counselling can actually be a brilliant tool for helping you understand your own shitty behaviour and helping to change behaviours. No need to sneer at it. He did a shitty thing, now he gets to examine his shitty thing in extensive detail and feel actual remorse over how shitty a person he was. That’s a good thing.

I dont think therapy works for anything.

Is therapy an effective substitute for personal responsibility ?

I'm not sneering at therapy
therapy is brilliant
Im sneering at the way sleazes like this use it as a tool to play victim time after time in their own grim misbehaviour

Good on him.

🤔

If it was between consenting adults and nothing illegal/untoward, why would anyone have made a complaint/brought it to light.....
I think he's trying to extinguish this before the full truth comes out

Therapy? Well he needs his head examined, that's for sure.

What a twat.

off they trot to a therapist whilst I bet the women left behind are having to crack on without having their egos massaged.

I get where you're coming from but do you really think therapy is about having your ego massaged?

Interesting that when it broke he was consulting his lawyers, a day later we get the apology and trip to therapist. I bet the lawyer he consulted drafted the whole fucking thing for him.
Just don't understand these men that have everything. Fab wife, career, house, kids. It's never enough for them.

Oh to have the confidence of a mediocre man

A second-rate footballer. Given a chance of a new career as a presenter. All gone to his head. Wife and 4 kids. He issued an “apology” stating he’d like to apologise ESPECIALLY to the random women he was texting! Do what? What about the wife!!!! Utter Knobhead

What a load of over-hyped fuss about a minor bloke off the telly.

That has got to be one of the most mealy mouthed apologies.

1. Im sorry
2. but but but this is really hard for me
3. i didn’t really do anything wrong
4. the women were to blame

ugh!

Thing is, he is on the BBC so we pay him, and he was overpaid at that, given he was a shit presenter.

I'm well aware that therapy isn't about ego massaging
These sleazy men claiming to be in therapy to understand their grim behaviour do a major disservice to those of us who work in therapeutic services and also have worked through therapy to deal with complex trauma
If he knew he had issues perhaps seeking therapy before he behaved so grimly would have served him better.
And this thread wasn't just about Jenas. It seems the get out of jail card so many of these odious men use at times like this and devalue the huge value and importance of therapy

This, while brazen paedophiles were/ are protected, employed and covered up for.

Totally agree with you. However, I think this has been totally overblown as a story. There are many creepy presenters out there (one who I know definitely comes on to a lot of women) but Beeb seems to protect or get rid of who is more valuable to them.

It's a well-worn script.

Therapy - ok, but why do you need to tell the world you're getting it?

Consenting adults - adults, maybe, but if they were all consenting why did they complain about you?

Nothing illegal - the lowest of low bars for decent behaviour.

My main issue with Jermaine Jenas is how did such a uncharismatic, unintelligent, uninformed bore get such a well-paid job as a mainstream television presenter?

I hope his wife takes him to the cleaners.