Jay Blades isn’t leaving the The Repair Shop
Jay Blades isn’t leaving the ‘The Repair Shop’.
The 52-year-old television personality might have made his new documentary ‘Jay Blades: History of the East End’ - a programme highlighting the area he grew up in - with their rival network Channel 5 but he is adamant he is not going to leave the BBC and the beloved programme.
He told the Daily Star newspaper’s Hot TV column: “I don’t think they are going to pull the plug. We normally make them a year in advance.
“I am still filming series eight and then going to do series nine right after.
“Channel 5 haven’t taken me away. Channel 5 has allowed me to do something different than what I do on the BBC, which is nice.
“As a creative, I have a production company and I have ideas - and when you have ideas you want to go somewhere where we can make them, and Channel 5 is that place.”
Jay has done other projects away from the BBC One show - which sees artisan craft experts like woodworker Will Kirk restore beloved items cherished by members of the public - via his production company Hungry Jay like ‘No Place Like Home’, which will see celebs like Ben Miller, Fern Britton and Chris Kamara foray into hometowns.
In December, they shared the synopsis: "No Place Like Home sees [the celebrities] take a walk down memory lane returning to the neighbourhoods where they grew up, discovering the history that was on their doorstep all along.
"Each episode sees a celebrity learning more about themselves and the places they called ‘home’ as they explore the areas that made them."
In December, Jay also told royal critics to “pipe down” after they accused him of getting over friendly with King Charles III during his appearance on a special episode of 'The Repair Shop'.
He said: “Well, there was plenty of royal security there to say don’t touch the geezer, but they didn’t. He’s only a human and he touched me too. So I think everyone should pipe down.”
