My reading skills are improving but I'm still using coping strategies. I can read signs and I can work things out. — Jay Blades Coping Copy Share Image
Me and my brother were always making and repairing things - what people call upcycling now. — Jay Blades Copy Share Image
I've seen more men crying on 'The Repair Shop' than I have in the entire rest of my life. — Jay Blades Boys Copy Share Image
I was the tough guy who never showed any emotion and dealt with nothing. — Jay Blades Emotion Copy Share Image
I went to a predominantly white secondary school and experienced a lot of hate and racism. — Jay Blades Copy Share Image
What people like me need is not a father figure, but a role model. — Jay Blades Father Copy Share Image
You can't beat a traditional afternoon tea - I drink about 10 cups of tea a day and have a very sweet tooth. — Jay Blades Copy Share Image
I am heavily dyslexic and if they send me a script I can't read it. They tell me who is coming on… — Jay Blades Copy Share Image
When I was 16, I landed a job at a modelling agency in Bond Street, and those guys introduced me to a… — Jay Blades Bond Copy Share Image
I used to think of Hackney in a really good light, now it's too much linked to slavery, too much. And then… — Jay Blades Copy Share Image
If you make something, your mental health will benefit. It could be something really small, but every day you will have a… — Jay Blades Day Copy Share Image
The funny thing is that I have this tendency to remember stuff really, really well, which is quite weird, even though I… — Jay Blades Funny Copy Share Image
I had my first child, split up with the missus, and moved back to London, then I ended up homeless and went… — Jay Blades Copy Share Image
What we are asking the consumer to do is learn to buy and have habits in a completely different way. To think… — Jay Blades Copy Share Image
I'm one of these ever-romantics, 'This is the one. No, there's another one. She's the one. She's the one. She's the one.'… — Jay Blades Copy Share Image
If you know certain places are not necessarily for you, why don't you create your own place? I often say to people… — Jay Blades Copy Share Image
There are islands in this world that are full of plastic, full of the things that we consume. But because it's over… — Jay Blades Copy Share Image
My mother put me into a competition in Clacton-on-Sea in which people attempted to be the quickest eater of 100 Jacob's Cream… — Jay Blades Body Copy Share Image
When you've been in that state - call it a no man's land, because a future can't be seen. People say, 'Why… — Jay Blades Alive Copy Share Image
You have to make a mistake to succeed. If anybody came to you and says 'I'm always winning,' something's not right there.… — Jay Blades Failure Copy Share Image
School had two big influences on me. First, the racism I received - being called names and having eight people out to… — Jay Blades Food Copy Share Image
Secondary school was a bit naughty for me. The class I was in was called 'L' for learners but was known as… — Jay Blades Chemistry Copy Share Image
We have become part of the throwaway culture where if something's broken, throw it away, buy new. It's just easier, more convenient.… — Jay Blades Community Copy Share Image
If you think of 'The Repair Shop,' we're filming almost about nine months of the year. — Jay Blades Copy Share Image
I think I knew three couples that were together. I don't remember seeing too many men in my estate. — Jay Blades Couples Copy Share Image
Reading is something most people do every day and I didn't know it would mean so much to me. — Jay Blades Day Copy Share Image
