The Repair Shop’s Jay Blades is launching a new documentary series with Channel 5 after becoming the latest BBC face to land a deal with the channel.
The flat-cap wearing presenter is a firm favourite on the Beeb’s handyman TV series, earning a dedicated fan base in the process.
While his new series, which will track his difficult upbringing in East London, won’t mean he leaves The Repair Shop, it’s being reported that BBC bosses are getting annoyed at the amount of their stars being poached by the channel. “They keep signing our presenters,” a source told The Mirror, branding the rival Channel ‘BBC Lite’. "They need to create a separate identity.” In the new series, The Streets Where I Lived, Jay will return to the home he grew up in,.
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