Hackneys Jay Blades has said The Repair Shop team fixed him by bringing him into another family after a difficult childhood which saw him experience neglect racism and violence.
The furniture restorer from the BBC One show has reflected on his challenges growing up including having an absent father who he refers to as the man that contributed towards my birth and how this failed to prepare him for having his own child at age 20. Blades told Lauren Laverne on BBC Radio 4s Desert Island Discs I was not ready plain and simple. I did not know how to be a father and it proved that I was not ready because I did not stay with Maria Levis mum very long.
I think I stayed with her for about a year and that was it. If you do not see something you can not be. You have to be taught how to do it or you have to see a positive role model.I had a lot of positive role models as uncles growing up extended uncles but I never saw them being a father I normally just played with the kids and we just went out we did what we did.I did not see what they did as being a father. So its very hard for me to do that. Really really hard.The TV host said when his mother had him aged 17 or 18 she was kicked out of her family house and Blades father had promised to buy them a flat but instead he disappeared with the money.
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