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13 Sep 24
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They can't 'arf pick 'em!!
Been getting him in programmes all over the place, and he can't even read or write apparently!
Stop the world, I want to get off.
Been getting him in programmes all over the place, and he can't even read or write apparently!
Stop the world, I want to get off.
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I like repair shop. Innocent before guilty lets not forget.
Oh sorry guilty guilty guilty post july 4th |
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Seemed such a nice man.
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Roasted either way.
Shame. Guy was a youth worker among other things, helping others and does come across as a genuinely nice guy but I guess it's the old saying you don't know what goes on behind closed doors. Brave to admit he is unable to read at the age of 51 with the stigma that brings and now he's odds on to get cancelled out of sight. |
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Jay Blades for anyone who doesn't know who is being talked about. I can't say I am an avid watcher of Repair Shop, but doesn't he just do the voice over while everyone does the work, and probably get paid less.
I am sure they will be able to find another box ticker to replace him. |
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The issue is whether he slapped his bitch, not an average teatime program for the golden oldies!
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Another british problem is that we love to slap down anyone that is successful. Pure jealousy
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The sign of the times is that in the days of real celebrities nobody would be talking about a guy who presents a programme like Repair Shop.
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Will they take away his MBE?
Seems only right |
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Why did he get an MBE in the first place. Did he go over the top at the somme ?
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No, he repaired some items on a TV show
Seems reasonable enough to get an MBE Getting an award for acts of bravery or service is so old hat |
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How did he get the job if he is illiterate?
He has recently done a series with Dame Judy Dench in which she said they were "best mates"!! He should be replaced on The Repair Shop with a Seikh or Hasidic Jew. |
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Is he the geezer who appraises ethnic war clubs that the BBC felt required to feature on the Antiques Roadshow?
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On the Repair Shop, all the others have all the skills, yet he takes all the praises. The problem is he thought of the idea in the first place and I understand that he owns the rights to the show. So, if they sell the programme all over the world, he makes an absolute fortune in the process! Never trusted or liked the guy in the first place.
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wrong geezer
 Believe the guy you're referring to was a chap who spent much of his formative years in an orphanage. He bumped into a woman on't show who was in possession of one or two of Ronnie corbet's puppets. Corbett had visited the aforementioned orphanage when said guy was a resident. He got quite teary, understandably so. |
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IT’S not often you can pinpoint the exact second a show should’ve called it a day, but you can with BBC1’s Who Do You Think You Are? November 24, 2016, at 9pm.
The moment credits rolled on the famous episode where we discovered Danny Dyer was a direct descendent of Edward III and rightful heir to the throne. News which, as you can imagine, did Danny’s “nut in” and mine as well, because I think we all knew Who Do You Think You Are? would never be quite the same again. There have, of course, been exceptions to this rule since then. For contrasting reasons, I enjoyed the Matt Lucas episode, where he discovered a link to Anne Frank and the one which revealed Sue Perkins’ great-grandmother was called Fanny King. Generally, though, it’s been a relentless decline, with every “Wow!”-ridden edition now following a tiresome pattern. It always ends with the celebrity declaring feelings of “pride” in their ancestors and is preceded by a long line of fearsome old battleaxes who’ve either ended up in the workhouse or fallen victim to a historical catastrophe which casts Britain in a terrible light and coincides exactly with the BBC’s own political agenda. A particular favourite is the Irish potato famine of 1845-1852 which, the show has revealed, drove the starving ancestors of Mel C, Paddy McGuinness and Chris Moyles across to Britain. So you can’t say the Irish haven’t exacted brutal revenge. In line with another BBC obsession, the current series has also attempted to go for youth appeal, with none of the famous guests older than 51. If they thought this line-up would give the show new life, though, they couldn’t have been more wrong. They’ve been a savagely dull bunch whose reaction to past events would be the same if they’d discovered, as Rose Ayling-Ellis did, that their great-grandmother had applied for pub planning permission in 1911, or great-aunt Ada had it off with Lloyd George round the back of the old Locarno ballroom on Armistice Day. “Wow!” It’s a bombardment of wows that never lets up, with about 25 of them peppering every episode. What’s even more annoying, though, is that the youngish guests are all either so wrapped up in themselves or just plain ignorant that they have no concept of basic history or anything like a real job, with Mel C taking the biscuit when she stopped a local historian in her tracks to admit: “I don’t know what a money lender means.” If I’m harshly honest, I didn’t expect that pattern to change with this week’s guest, Jessica Ennis-Hill. She’s one of our greatest- ever female athletes and impossible to dislike, but you wouldn’t expect ITV to book her for An Audience With any time soon. If you were wondering why she’d been booked for WDYTYA, though, the clue came with the opening revelation that: “My dad’s family are from Jamaica.” For Jess and her dear old dad Vinnie, who tagged along for the freebie, this meant an emotional holiday to the Caribbean. For the BBC, it was that sombre moment, 40 minutes in, when the music turned sinister, down at the old sugar plantation and a local historian confirmed: “Yes . . . slavery.” They had to go all the way back to the 18th century to find the links to Jess, mind you, as her land-owning relatives all seem to have thrived in Jamaica. If she seemed less than thunder-struck by the slavery revelation when it came, though, then that’s possibly because she’s seen exactly the same thing on WDYTYA episodes involving: Alex Scott, Ainsley Harriott, Noel Clarke, Marvin Humes, Colin Jackson, Moira Stuart and Naomie Harris. The guests are largely forgotten and irrelevant, by this stage, though. What clearly motivates the BBC production is the chance to deliver yet another high-minded bollocking for us all about slavery, which usually stops short of pointing out Britain was the first country to abolish this abomination and suppress it around the world. No amount of woke repetition is too much for the Beeb, though, and nothing will probably ever stop them reminding us just how much they hate Britain, via WDYTYA. But I think the show should probably call it a day with the last guest of the present run, Gemma Collins, who will hopefully reveal when exactly The Morlocks entered her bloodline, on September 26. And if they also find out The GC’s ancestors were caught up in a potato famine? Well, I just hope there’s an appropriate three-letter word to express my utter astonishment. |
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I like Ally Ross cider
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My missus is a big Repair Shop fan and is defending Jay this morning, reckons there will be more to it than the bare facts reported. But then again she has always maintained Boris was treated badly... Women seen to have a blind spot when it comes to loveable rogues.
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I don't know who this guy is.
The Dyer story was ridiculous. Most white/mixed race English people are descended from Edward III. |
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I like Ally Ross cider
Indeed, I know he writes for a 'rag', but he's consistently one of the funniest people I've read (ever since reading said rag in the staff canteen, decades ago!). I don't read the paper of the online content, but do read his published article every Friday. Ally is actually old school left wing and supports Scottish independence. But he doesn't actually hate us, not like the BBC. I don't watch the show salmon, maybe it was a poor storyline. I suspect he was using it as a timeline to demonstrate where the BBC switched virtually all editorial decision making to be based on a certain type of political ideology. |
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Jay has been charged with controlling and coercive behaviour, he only married his wife in Nov 22. The charge sheet against Blades revealed the charges related to a period between January 1, 2023 – just 40 days after their wedding - and September 12 this year.
Sounds to me as if they just didn't get on once they were living together, although police were called to an address after she posted on instagram in May that their relationship was over. |
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Never watched the programme and so never heard of him and just another domestic it seems and not worthy of all this attention.
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Star ??
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wil have to take his marriage to the repair shop
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DG12……l thought you HAD to be illiterate to get a presenters job.
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I put Repair Shop on for my elderly parents, who puts it on for you lot?
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Sparrow, the Repair Shop is an interesting program where experts repair broken old family heirlooms etc, think you'd enjoy it.
They have some marvellous skills repairing anything from broken watches, clocks, jewellery, etc to old toys, leather goods, paintings, metalwork, anything and everything. Saw them repairing an old Escalado racing game once. |
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Its an absolute load of sentimental shyte
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I might well enjoy it stewarts but all this attention on a horse racing forum about the domestic life of the presenter is just ridiculous.
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The skills they have, to repair what often looks nothing more than junk, is just remarkable.
It's well worth a watch. |
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You spent half of this week posting pictures of chocolate bars on the horse race forum, sparrow. The thread is headed 'Rolos'. I sense you're probably a good egg deep down, but your hypocrisy is gargantuan!
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The Repair shop is just the sort of programme that the BBC waste so much of our license fee on. I bet they don't charge the people who bring in their junk for restoration so that they can sell it for big money.
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It may be hypocritical to a certain degree cider but there is a great difference between discussing the domestic life of a TV presenter and a nostalgic fun thread about chocolate bars.
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The thing is that in the evening and morning there are hardly anybody posting about horse racing on here, so i think it's OK to post about items of interest to people in general on here. The riots, elections, Trump, tragedys, RIP threads etc. There's hardly any traffic as they say on the other forum categories.
If no one is interested the threads soon drop to the bottom. |
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They are equally off topic (pardon the pun). So you are very comfortable with threads on horse racing that have nothing to do with horse racing (and, in fact actively participate in). But not ones that don't share your politics. We get it.
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He grabbed and touched the Kings arm during the show….thick as a brick….
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As for politics cider we have a forum dedicated to that.
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And now Picture Poster boy has arrived on the scene.
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