Aherne asked him how he could assure listeners he had changed.

“You need to take responsibility for your actions [and] why you’re in this position,” he said.

“And there’s a reason why this has happened. And once you kind of accept those things, then you can work on yourself and you can work on the other things and you can work on your family and work towards a brighter future.”

When asked about the impact his actions had had on his family, he said he realised “they didn’t deserve to be in that position”.

Jenas added that he intended to “get back on [the] path” of being a role model.

He will return to his job as a football pundit this weekend as co-commentator for Aston Villa vs Tottenham in the FA Cup for talkSport.

Jenas had been hosting talkSport’s drive show when the news of his dismissal from the BBC became public.

Earlier this week, when reports emerged he might be returning to the radio station, Women in Football told the Press Assocation it came as “no surprise that employees at talkSport are reportedly uneasy at the prospect of working alongside him”.

“Our concern is that talkSport appears neither to have ascertained whether Jenas has honoured this commitment nor to have consulted the women working in their offices and studios. This is a mistake.”

A talkSport source told the BBC in response on Friday that “the talkSport team has been consulted, as you would expect.”