Jay Blades confronts his struggle to read in Jay Blades: Learning To Read At 51 Published: 22 July 2021 Jay BladesLearning to read is going to be the toughest challenge for me. On this journey I'll be meeting people who can't read, for whatever reason, and hopefully helping them. I'd love this film to inspire the millions of other adults in the same situation as me.'- Jay Blades Jay Blades, presenter of The Repair Shop, has decided it's finally time to learn to read. Until he was in his 30s, Jay concealed a big secret: he has the reading ability of a child. Throughout his life he has found ways of avoiding the written word and this film will dig deep into how this has shaped him.