LIKE millions of dads in the pandemic, TV star Jay Blades sat down to read his child a bedtime story over Zoom. But the book was for toddlers, not a 15 year old like his daughter Zola.
That is because, until recently, the presenter of BBC’s hit Repair Shop could not read. And in a moving BBC documentary to be shown next week, viewers will see Jay asking his fiancée Lisa Marie Zbozen to help him read a letter that arrived from Buckingham Palace.
The 51-year-old furniture restorer — who grew up in Hackney, East London, and left school with no qualifications — had been awarded an MBE by the Queen in last year’s Birthday Honours for services to crafts.
Jay also has dyslexia, which affects how the brain processes information, meaning for him words can appear to move around on a page.
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