{"id":147581,"date":"2018-08-09T14:52:29","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T13:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/?p=147581"},"modified":"2018-08-09T14:53:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T13:53:51","slug":"jermaine-pennant-nearly-lost-friendship-ashley-cole-cheating-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/uk-showbiz\/jermaine-pennant-nearly-lost-friendship-ashley-cole-cheating-claims-147581","title":{"rendered":"Jermaine Pennant nearly lost friendship with Ashley Cole after cheating claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Premiere League footballer,\u00a0Jermaine Pennant, has revealed that he nearly lost his friendship with Ashley Cole after he made cheating claims about the footballer in his book.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old revealed well-kept secrets between him and Ashley in his new book,\u00a0<em>Mental: Bad Behaviour, Ugly Truths &amp; The Beautiful Game.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One of the stories the retired footballer wrote about was regarding Ashley cheating on an ex-girlfriend with Cheryl Cole.<\/p>\n<p>The footballer-turned-author claimed that Ashley&#8217;s girlfriend at the time was locked outside his house while he was on a date with Cheryl.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BiZuX5EFoAN\/?utm_source=ig_embed\" data-instgrm-version=\"9\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 50.0% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\">\n<div style=\"background: url(data:image\/png; base64,ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaacwaaaascamaaaapwqozaaaabgdbtueaalgpc\/xhbqaaaafzukdcak7ohokaaaamuexurczmzpf399fx1+bm5mzy9amaaadisurbvdjlvzxbesmgces5\/p8\/t9furvcrmu73jwlzosgsiizurcjo\/ad+eqjjb4hv8bft+idpqocx1wjosbfhh2xssxeiyn3uli\/6mnree07uiwjev8ueowds88ly97kqytlijkktuybbruayvh5wohixmpi5we58ek028czwyuqdlkpg1bkb4nnm+veanfhqn1k4+gpt6ugqcvu2h2ovuif\/gwufyy8owepdyzsa3avcqpvovvzzz2vtnn2wu8qzvjddeto90gsy9mvlqtgysy231mxry6i2ggqjrty0l8fxcxfcbbhwrsyyaaaaaelftksuqmcc); display: block; height: 44px; margin: 0 auto -44px; position: relative; top: -22px; width: 44px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;\"><a style=\"color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BiZuX5EFoAN\/?utm_source=ig_embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August ????????????<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\">A post shared by <a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jermaine7pennant\/?utm_source=ig_embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Jermaine Pennant<\/a> (@jermaine7pennant) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2018-05-05T16:09:52+00:00\">May 5, 2018 at 9:09am PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async defer src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The footballer also wrote about having multiple threesomes with Ashley and different women.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I almost lost friendship because of it. It came out in the press, there\u2019s only a handful of people who knew, they all seemed to put it on me,&#8221; he explained on Good Morning Britain earlier today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m always the\u00a0easy target, they kind of blamed it on me and I was furious and almost fell out with my friend Jermaine Winter and Ashley Cole over it, and I said, \u201cLook it\u2019s nothing to do with me\u201d and I just thought I wanted to share that experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_147584\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-147584\" style=\"width: 851px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-147584 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-14.43.56.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"851\" height=\"674\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-14.43.56.png 851w, https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-14.43.56-300x238.png 300w, https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-14.43.56-768x608.png 768w, https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-14.43.56-150x119.png 150w, https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-14.43.56-696x551.png 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 851px) 100vw, 851px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-147584\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Instagram &#8211; Jermaine Pennant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The ex-footballer is rumoured to be entering the Celebrity Big Brother house, but he is keeping quite tight-lipped about the speculation for now.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They\u2019re just probably rumours, I don\u2019t know of yet. They may be rumours. I enjoy television, so if that opportunity does arise it\u2019s something I wouldn\u2019t shy away from.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the release of his book we&#8217;re wondering how much he&#8217;d reveal in the CBB house?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":147585,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[4154],"tags":[5044,286,7987],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-14.48.40.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}