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BBC Repair Shop star Jay Blades has revealed his secret life of homelessness, fights and living with racial abuse.Jay's mum Barbara Blades moved to th
BBC Repair Shop star Jay Blades has revealed his secret life of homelessness, fights and living with racial abuse.Jay's mum Barbara Blades moved to th
BBC Repair Shop star Jay Blades has revealed his secret life of homelessness, fights and living with racial abuse.Jay's mum Barbara Blades moved to th
Repair Shop’s Jay Blades reveals secret life of homelessness, fights and racial abuse Updated: May 1 2021, 8:36 ET BBC Repair Shop star Jay Blades has revealed his secret life of homelessness, fights and living with racial abuse. Jay's mum Barbara Blades moved to the UK when she was 13 from Barbados and raised him and his siblings on her own, after having Jay when she was just 18. 5 Jay Blades has opened up about his secret life of homelessness, fights and racial abuse in new autobiography Making It: How Love, Kindness And Community Helped Me Repair My LifeCredit: BBC/Ricochet Ltd/Steve Pes...
Advertisement They say the simplest ideas are the best. But as I listened to a bunch of creative, clever people from a TV production company enthusing about a concept they called The Repair Shop, I did wonder. Ordinary people, getting ordinary household items fixed by ordinary repairers. Would anybody watch something as low-key as that? I flicked through an A4 document outlining the show, but I didn’t read it. I couldn’t. I was in my mid-40s, and it was 15 years since my dyslexia was diagnosed. Since then, I’d completed a degree in criminology. But reading still wasn’t my strong point...