Jermaine Pennant’s chapter got here after he frittered away his fortune and expertise throughout a £80,000-a-week profession that promised a lot however could be ignominious due to a spell in jail and taking part in within the Premier League with an ankle tag.
The previous footballer seems to have run out of cash simply two weeks earlier than he turns 40 having battled demons in his non-public life together with issues with alcohol, womanising and years battling a playing habit that has left him £1million in debt.
However there was some excellent news for the fallen footballer, having discovered love with mannequin and actress Jess Impiazzi after a string of different failed relationships.
A type of was with Hollyoaks actress Jennifer Metcalfe, whose designer cat was killed by the footballer’s Akita canine and lined up with the assistance a group of cleaners and a good friend who buried the physique.
Jermaine Pennant’s chapter got here after he frittered away his fortune and expertise throughout a £80,000-a-week profession. He’s pictured with girlfriend mannequin and actress Jess Impiazzi
However years of controversy – together with a spell in jail – noticed him changing into the primary participant within the Premier League to play with a tag. Now he has apparently misplaced his fortune
Nottingham-born Jermaine burst on to the scene as an adolescent and have become a £2million signing at simply 15, making his debut for Arsenal as a 16-year-old.
He scored a hat-trick on his full Premier League debut aged 20. He later admitted he was out partying till 6am on the day of the sport and received the match for his group hungover.
Regardless of his extraordinary begin, he solely made 5 full begins for Arsenal in seven years, and was shipped out on mortgage to numerous golf equipment the place his private issues continued.
In 2005 he was jailed for 3 months for drink driving whereas disqualified after crashing his good friend’s Mercedes right into a lamppost. After 30 days in jail he was launched and his membership Birmingham Metropolis stood by him. He turned the primary participant to play within the Premier League with an digital tag on his ankle.
His soccer profession continued with a giant cash transfer to Liverpool, incomes him much more money and even a Champions’ League winners medal earlier than falling out of favour. On one extremely paid spell at Actual Zaragoza in Spain, he forgot he had a Porsche, leaving it with a key on the seat exterior a station.
After the penny dropped he picked it up later with 5 months of parking tickets to pay.
As a teen, a hungry Jermaine Pennant burst onto the soccer scene with Arsenal, signing a £2million deal at simply the age of 15 (pictured)
However he was jailed in 2005 for 3 months after being convicted of drink-driving. Pennant pictured heading to court docket earlier than being jailed in February 25, 2005
Birmingham County Court docket has reportedly issued a one-year chapter order to the ex-Premier League star, who owes cash to collectors together with HMRC and councils. He’s pictured in London on December 6, 2022
His love life has additionally been rocky, notably with ex-wife Alice Goodwin, with whom he had an on-off relationship.
Hollyoaks star Jennifer Metcalfe was additionally one in every of his girlfriends. He later admitted that his canine had killed her cat and he hid it from her by asking a good friend to bury the cat and paid cleaners to cover the mess.
One lover, glamour mannequin Amii Grove, turned irate about his dishonest after she discovered a pair of knickers of their mattress. She then locked him out of their £1.1million, threw £30,000 of his designer garments out of the window, and smashed up his beloved X-Field.
After 15 golf equipment in 19 years Mr Pennant’s soccer profession ended with out the achievements many had anticipated when he turned England’s nice hopes as a 16-year-old. After retirement he earned money on the final collection of Movie star Large Brother and media commitments, together with one event the place he was {accused} of being drunk on Sky Sports activities Information.
Right now it emerged that Birmingham County Court docket has reportedly issued a one-year chapter order to the ex-Premier League star, who owes cash to collectors together with HMRC, councils, banks and utility firms.
The 39-year-old’s media firm Jermaine Pennant Ltd, which was arrange following his TV appearances on exhibits comparable to Movie star Large Brother, was dissolved in 2020.
Rocky love life: Hollyoaks star Jennifer Metcalfe was additionally one in every of his girlfriends. He later admitted that his canine had killed her cat
One other one in every of Jemaine’s former lovers, glamour mannequin Amii Grove, turned irate about his dishonest after she discovered a pair of knickers of their mattress
However regardless of a string of failed relationships, Jermaine has discovered love with mannequin and actress Jess Impiazzi
Final yr his deserted mansion was gutted by flames once more for a second time in lower than a month in November after it was taken over by a medication gang and changed into a hashish manufacturing unit.
5 crews from Widnes, Penketh, Speke and Lymm fought via the night time to deal with the blaze with aid crews from Frodsham and Chester additionally dispatched.
It got here after firefighters rushed to the ex-Liverpool, Arsenal and Birmingham participant’s former residence on October 13 following studies of a blaze, which ripped via the property and destroyed the roof.
Merseyside Police have been additionally in attendance and cordoned off the highway whereas firefighters labored.
The previous Arsenal and Leeds United star, 39, purchased the five-bedroom mansion in 2006 when he joined Liverpool and lived there for 3 years earlier than transferring to Spanish facet Actual Zaragoza.
He then rented the house within the prosperous Cheshire village for an extra decade as his footballing profession noticed him transfer a number of instances – together with stints in India and Singapore earlier than he lastly retired in 2017.
A fireplace ripped via the property in November 2022 – the second time its been on hearth in a month
Jermaine Pennant pictured together with his girlfriend, Jess Impiazzi, earlier this yr. Jermaine purchased the home in 2006
However the property has stood empty since 2020 after Pennant cut up from his then-partner mannequin Alice Goodwin, 32.
The deserted residence, close to Liverpool’s John Lennon Airport, was subsequently transformed right into a hashish farm and was topic to a medication warrant earlier this yr – resulting in the arrest of a 35-year-old man.
It was not the primary time the footballer has deserted an costly buy. In 2011 he utterly forgot he owned an costly Porsche after he left it at Zaragoza prepare station in Spain for 5 months with the keys on the seat.
He additionally has a historical past of drink abuse, having been convicted thrice for driving inebriated.
In 2005, Pennant was jailed for 3 months for drink-driving whereas banned after crashing right into a lamppost whereas greater than twice the authorized restrict, and driving off with the submit dragging beneath his automotive.
When he was initially questioned by police, he instructed officers that he was his Arsenal team-mate on the time, Ashley Cole.
Quick life and quick automobiles: Jermaine cherished driving in high-powered sports activities automobiles, spending his soccer money on new luxurious motors
However his antic behind the wheel would get him into bother with the courts after being caught drink-driving. He’s pictured arriving at London’s swanky Mayfair Lodge in his Ferrari
In addition to being jailed in 2005 he was additionally given a suspended jail sentence whereas taking part in for Stoke in 2012 after admitting to drink-driving. He’s pictured at court docket in 2005
Whereas taking part in for Stoke in 2012, Pennant was given an eight-week jail sentence, suspended for a yr, and disqualified from driving for 3 years after admitting to drink-driving.
He turned a star after scoring a hat trick for Arsenal on his full Premier League when the world was at his toes.
Pennant mentioned later he believed he would not be picked for any of Arsenal’s remaining fixtures and as a substitute went out partying the night time earlier than their recreation with the Saints.
A lot to Pennant’s shock, Arsene Wenger determined to throw the then 19-year-old into the combination not understanding of {the teenager}’s escapades simply hours earlier than.
Pennant instructed FourFourTwo: ‘I would been out the night time earlier than and had a giant night time, as a result of I actually did not suppose I’d be taking part in, by no means thoughts beginning the sport.
‘I would by no means began a recreation for Arsenal and I did not suppose that’d change, particularly as Robert Pires, Freddie Ljungberg and Ray Parlour have been all within the squad. I used to be assured to be on the bench.
‘I assumed, ‘Sod it’, went to an FHM celebration and acquired residence at round 6am. I could not consider it after I noticed my identify within the beginning line-up! I used to be nonetheless so hungover after I was taking part in; I simply did the whole lot in my energy to not embarrass myself.
Jermaine Pennant pictured with Chloe Ayling on Movie star Large Brother in August 2018
Through the collection, Jermaine is seen giving Chloe Ayling a raunchy kiss on the thigh
Cuddling up: Jermaine is pictured snuggled subsequent to Dan Osborne on Movie star Large Brother in 2018
‘I can not consider I scored. It was simply an enormous aid – I assumed, ‘OK, you’ll be able to take me off now. Please, Arsene!’ I felt so sick and I might really feel the vodka nonetheless bouncing round in my abdomen. You might scent it on my breath, too.
‘I did OK to attain a hat-trick: it exhibits I had expertise, although it helps once you’re taking part in with Thierry Henry and Patrick Vieira. That was the primary recreation of Arsenal’s 49-game unbeaten run.’
Pennant was by no means shy of controversy throughout his profession however he did play effectively at instances throughout his stint with Liverpool.
The 2006-07 marketing campaign was arguably one of the best of his profession and the participant was irritated to agonisingly fall wanting an England call-up.
He scored his first objective in January 2007 with a memorable volley in opposition to Chelsea and would even go on to start out the Champions League remaining in opposition to AC Milan – and was voted as Liverpool followers’ Participant of the Match.
Nevertheless, he was despatched off in opposition to Porto within the Champions League in September and his kind would decline over the 2007-08 season which led to a decline in minutes.
Horror: Jermaine Pennant has admitted his canine killed his then-girlfriend Jennifer Metcalfe’s cat in a grotesque ‘bloodbath’
Oh expensive: The ex-Arsenal star confessed that his pooch, Shadow, attacked Jennifer’s costly Persian pet whereas the couple have been on vacation
Nightmare: As a substitute of telling Hollyoaks star Jennifer concerning the tragedy, the 35-year-old ‘panicked’, acquired his good friend to bury the cat and paid cleaners to cowl up the bloody scene (pictured with Shadow)
Terrible: Jermaine mentioned his good friend despatched him a photograph of the ‘horrendous, distressing scene’, which featured ‘blood all around the carpets, the wall, on the banister’
After beginning the primary 9 video games, he solely made 4 extra league begins that season.
He fell out with Rafael Benitez, spent the 2008-09 season on-loan at Portsmouth who have been relegated from the highest flight and left Liverpool on the finish of the season.
The controversies continued off the pitch.
In 2018 he admitted his canine killed Jennifer Metcalfe’s cat in a grotesque ‘bloodbath’.
The ex-Arsenal star confessed that Shadow attacked his then-girlfriend’s costly Persian pet whereas the couple have been on vacation.
As a substitute of telling Hollyoaks star Jennifer concerning the tragedy, he ‘panicked’, acquired his good friend to bury the cat and paid cleaners to cowl up the grisly scene.
The footballer made the confession in an extract from his new autobiography, Psychological: Dangerous Behaviour, Ugly Truths and the Stunning Recreation, which was obtained by The Mirror.
He defined that Jennifer introduced her two Persian cats along with her when she moved in with him.
The duo all the time had to verify his canine, an Akita, was all the time exterior when the cats have been round.
The assault struck when the couple have been on vacation and his good friend Sam broke the information to him.
Jermaine pictured with Alice Goodwin throughout the Nationwide Actuality TV Awards in 2018
‘He mentioned, “Shadow’s killed the cat. I imply, J, he is completely massacred it. That again door onto the patio, it wasn’t locked, and he should’ve compelled it open,” ‘ Jermaine recalled.
The athlete added that Sam despatched him a photograph of the ‘horrendous, distressing scene’, which featured ‘blood all around the carpets, the wall, on the banister’.
‘I used to be feeling sick and panicking like mad. Myself and Sam got here up with this story that the cat had escaped,’ he went on.
The footballer revealed that the duo employed a skilled carpet cleaner, painter and decorator to utterly repaint the partitions and get new wallpaper.
‘I needed to inform Jennifer we could not go residence right away, and needed to ask Sam needed to bury the useless cat far-off and really deep,’ Pennant defined.
The previous Liverpool winger then pretended to Jennifer that the cat had acquired away.
The brunette magnificence was ‘upset for ages’ and printed off countless lacking posters throughout Liverpool which provided a reward.
Jermaine added that he had by no means instructed the story in public earlier than as he is aware of Jennifer could be ‘completely devastated’ and would ‘by no means forgive him’.
