Jermaine Jenas showed off the tattoo of his wife’s face on the Big Show (Picture: BBC/Hungry McBear/Gary Moyes)
Jermaine Jenas may be regretting revealing he has a tattoo of his wife’s face after Michael McIntyre took his chance to poke fun at the ink.
The former professional footballer and host of The One Show was the celebrity guest on this week’s episode of Big Show, but it was a casual chat at the start where he dug himself into a bit of a hole.
Inviting along his wife Ellie, Michael was asking how the couple, who have three children together, first met when Jermaine revealed it was in a nightclub.
While it was ‘love at first sight’ for Jermaine, he said he had to work hard to woo her.
‘I had to do a bit of convincing and I had to really graft for it,’ he said.
After referencing one of his more iconic matches, Jermaine said he was riding the high of the win but afterwards Ellie, who jumped in and made sure to specify she’s a Chelsea fan, cut things off between them.
‘I just wasn’t feeling it,’ she laughed.
Ellie joined Jermaine on the show (Picture: BBC/Hungry McBear/Gary Moyes)
When he was away playing with England after that though she got in touch and let him know she’d changed her mind and not missing her chance, he wanted to make things official and for others to know ‘she’s mine’.
Jumping in to correct his choice of words, Jermaine said that had sounded ‘bad’, but Michael ran with it and said: ‘What did you do, did you tattoo her?’
‘Well I do have a tattoo of her actually,’ he shared.
The tattoo in question is Ellie’s face running down his left arm (Picture: BBC)
‘That’s the night I met her,’ he continued, signalling it was based off a photograph of her at the time.
Taking off his jacket Jermaine then showed it off, however was met by Michael saying: ‘Ok no wonder she ran for the hills JJ.’
‘Tattoo, that face, my body,’ he joked while recreating how he thinks JJ might have looked dancing around in the nightclub.
Sharing the story seemed to come back to haunt him later in the episode when the results of the Send to All segment started flooding back in.
After Michael sent a shirtless selfie of Jermaine working out, captioned it ‘perfection’ and sent it to his contact list, Robbie Williams replied and it was savage to say the least.
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‘If by perfection you mean tattoos you could only pick out of the 1990s then yes, you’ve reached genius level’.
Clearly a good sport about it all, Jermaine ran with the punches and couldn’t stop laughing as other messages totally roasted him kept coming.
Michael McIntyre’s Big Show airs on Saturdays at 8pm on BBC One.
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