showbiz gossip straight to your inbox with the Daily Star's FREE newsletter Jay Blades has revealed he was 'attacked by racist police' while growing up in London.The Repair Shop star, 51, has won hearts across the UK by restoring people's items on the heart-warming BBC series but the suave star has recalled more troubled times.Jay recently shared that he was beaten up by police for the first time at the age of 14.On the encounter, which Jay said occurred at 10pm in North West London and was a "normal" part of life for a black man in the 1980s, he told The Mirror: "The back doors swung open and there were five or six uniformed policemen sitting in the van waiting for me."They didn’t even bother to search me.
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