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Emma SaundersCulture reporter
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The BBC said it had nary plans to broadcast the caller bid of Ashley Cain: Into The Danger Zone
Warning: This communicative contains explicit and violative language.
Ashley Cain has said helium is "not proud" of connection helium utilized successful societal media posts a decennary ago, aft a paper unearthed explicit sexist and misogynistic comments made by the world star.
The BBC pulled Cain's forthcoming documentary bid aft it was reported helium had often referred to women utilizing abusive presumption and sexualised language.
In a connection posted connected Instagram, Cain said: "You whitethorn person seen a caller nonfiction concerning connection I utilized galore years agone that I americium not arrogant of."
"I don't contradict it, I don't excuse it and I surely don't condone it. The information is, these comments were made implicit a decennary agone by a younger mentation of myself who inactive had a batch of increasing up to do."
At the clip of the archetypal comments connected his since-deleted X account, Cain said his imagination of nonrecreational footballer had disappeared due to the fact that of injury.
"Reality TV gave maine a 2nd chance," helium continued, "but it besides enactment maine into a satellite I didn't know, 1 successful which I was rewarded for processing a provocative personality."
A 2nd bid of BBC Three's Ashley Cain: Into the Danger Zone was commissioned and filmed earlier this year, but had not yet been scheduled for broadcast. Last week, the BBC said it has "no aboriginal projects" with Cain planned.
Cain, who starred successful TV shows specified arsenic MTV's Ex connected the Beach and BBC's Go Hard oregon Go Home, besides appeared to usage the presumption "sluts" and "psychos" and made jokes astir hitting women.
In a lengthy Instagram station published connected Monday, Cain wrote: "I person ever believed that accountability matters. We should each instrumentality work for our actions, bully oregon bad.
"But I besides judge successful growth, successful learning from our mistakes, and successful proving done our actions that the idiosyncratic we erstwhile were does not person to beryllium the idiosyncratic we remain."
The erstwhile Coventry City subordinate said that portion it wasn't an excuse, losing his erstwhile vocation arsenic a nonrecreational footballer owed to wounded had caused him to consciousness "lost, frustrated and unsure of wherever my beingness was heading".
He besides spoke astir being "raised by unthinkable women", including his mother, aunt, grandma and sister.
"Looking backmost now, I tin spot galore moments successful my younger years wherever | lacked maturity, position and understanding. Like galore young men, I had lessons to learn, and beingness made definite I learned them."
Cain besides spoke astir the decease of his babe girl from crab successful 2021 and however it had "changed maine forever".
"I person dedicated my beingness to trying to honour my daughter's bequest and assistance others wherever I can. To enactment children and families facing puerility cancer."
He added: "The crushed I americium capable to link with radical who are struggling, peculiarly young men, is not due to the fact that I person lived a cleanable life.
"It's due to the fact that I haven't. I've made mistakes. l've experienced loss. I've faced consequences. I've learned lessons the hard way.
"And done each of it, I've learned that existent maturation isn't astir pretending your past ne'er happened.
"It's astir owning it, learning from it and becoming amended due to the fact that of it."
He said it had been "difficult to spot these stories return" and helium "had hoped radical would recognise that maturation is possible."
In a connection issued connected Thursday past week, a BBC spokesperson said: "The posts by Ashley Cain, albeit from galore years ago, are wholly unacceptable.
"The BBC has wide requirements astir vetting and societal media checks, which are undertaken by the accumulation company.
"In this instance, the process intelligibly failed and we are investigating why. We are continuing to fortify our processes to guarantee everyone moving for, and connected behalf of, the BBC meets our values and standards.
"We person nary plans to broadcast the caller bid of Into the Danger Zone, and nary aboriginal projects with Ashley Cain."
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