Love Repair Shop, but sick to the back teeth of the presenters trying to make the people cry. ‘So tell me about your dead dad. Why did he love this lawnmower so much?’ If they get tears they are so happy.
It was always a bit heavy on the weepies but it got intolerable when it moved to BBC1. Every TV producer these days just wants extreme closeups of people crying.
Stopped watching it because of the very reason mentioned here; too much of the sob story to the cost of watching the talented repairers use their skill I couldn't be on it as a craftsman, unless shown after the Watershed, due to the blood, swearing, and 'oh bollocks; that'll do! They'll never notice that bit!"
I used to think that if only my dad were still alive he would have loved this programme but i was wrong he would have seen through Jay Blades in an instant, unlike me who believes everything lol
I always thought that, stuck in a shed for years rotting away. The program at first was great as many had only just got hold of their items via a death etc or the original owner was no longer physically on financially look after it now the program goes for the tear jerker you still love this program no longer especially the clock expert Steve and his sister the leather specialist all the guy that worked outside doing metalsmith
That was funny. Thank you Katie and fellow comments. I'm relieved it wasn't just me that stopped watching when they starting telling the life stories in relatives living rooms with melancholy music and crying. I am not a heartless cow after all.
When someone brings in a piece of dirty old broken rubbish and spouts on about how fond they are of it. Me shouting “If you love it so much wouldn’t you look after it. Clown!”
Thank phuq she used the word 'Allegedly'. That could have got into her into so much trouble. Sensible girl that Katie🤗. Never quit. And agreed re the false emotional, woke crap - c'mon, it is the BBC. What else would you expect?
The sob stories were probably invented by staff writers. I wouldn't even be surprised if they scoured junk shops to find things and paid actors to bring them in.
I used to go to the US a lot..TV was on one day and it was one of those we found it in a barn how much is it worth programs...I recognised the the guy who brought it in from an old sit com in Britain from 30 years ago. These programmes are all faulce.
Love the experts but hate the sob back stories. It's amazing how many people have neglected their so-called heirlooms and yet bring the tat to get it repaired or renovated for free.
Surely not a corrupt story being swept under the BBC rug when it come to an employee..... since when has this ever been a thing? (cough cough Edwards, Cough Saville Cogh Lineker cough etc). 🤣😂🤣😂 Hopkins you legend! Dump your old man and marry me please!
Anyone who dribbles pink paint on one chair leg and the others black is always sus in my world, and it annoyed me he always stood and accepted reflective praise for the hard work of others...still, that's what geezers do init.........
True story - 3 years ago a TV casting agent mate asked me if I knew any telegenic craftsmen who could audition for that show. I knew the ideal guy - 20s, model looks, lovely manners and an extraordinarily talented engineer / mechanic. I put tue two together, he attended an audition and apparently aced it. They loved him. But the production regretfully declined to use him, telling my casting agent pal that the BBC didn’t want him as he was white and their brief had changed to requiring a minority person to join the show instead. 🤷♂️
Couldn't stand him ! What the hell. was he supposedly to bring to the programme? NEVER done a tap just appeared now and. then hogging the lime light and always there to say goodbye the main scenes what NEXT ! DR WHO 😂😂😂😂😂 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
As usual KH saying what many are thinking. Blades shamelessly preyed on the skills and talents of the real craftspeople there who were modest, unassuming, and extraordinarily good at what they did. But no, the Beeb wanted its woke showrunner and made him into the celebrity, the fake 'mateyness' with the King, the banter, to be catapulted into a TV presenting career until he was everywhere talking about his 'story'. Glad it came unravelled.
His wife left because she was worried that he’d spray one of her arms pink, the other green, one leg blue and the other black. That was the extent of his talent…
Not sure that was on Repair Shop....it was on another Programme that they Re-Purposed old bits of Furniture bound for the Scrapheap and then sold on for Profit.....remember him Painting all 4 legs of a Chair all Different Colours...........
Yes. Spot on. I knew he was an ahole when he wore his leather apron but didn't do anything. I haven't watched it for ages, my cringe glands can't take it.
He'll have to get back to painting chair legs a different colour now, never lifted a finger on repair shop, tried to ride the coat tails of proper experts, time to let the experts run the show.
Shameless individual, ruthless for a bit of show business limelight. If he was a genuine craftsperson he would not have behaved in such a way. ‘Foreman’ my backside!
Well we've JafeBlades so story & I was really chuffed then he started to irritate me the he was pally with Prince chales(king) yeh then he was everywhere & it put me off the repair shop although I lovealll the others on there he just wanted to be in control & play the benign black guy well he's famous now 😜
JB, has absolutely no skills whatsoever. He did a short run of him trying to do some joinery. No woodworking skills at all, he just used PVA glue, and he was crap and very amateurish to say the least. 📦 ✅️ er
I remember this guy, originally, on a ‘let’s-find-boring-tat-and-do-it-up’ show. He’d take a boring ‘firewood-only’ chair and invariably paint each leg a different colour - for no apparent reason. Why?!! That’s all I saw: a man with a paintbrush basically. Now, bathes in the limelight of the talented experts……… and of course his “friend”, the King?
I don’t care too much about his personal life, we all have problems outside of work from time to time, but I couldn’t agree more about the guest sob stories. They just go on for too long.
Always thought something was up with that guy. Famous for sanding a chair and painting one leg blue or black. Where as all the others on the show where superb craftsmen and craftswomen. All of em are amazing, except him. Didnt get it.
I thought exactly the same something not right with this bloke taken the limelight for other people's work while doing sod all stop watching the programme cound not stand the man now it becomes clear the truth always out gut instinct says a lot we were right folks a bad one
Katie,are you saying Jay Blades is not a very good upholsterer.😂 It won't be long before the Repair Shop and Antiques Roadshow will be majority minorities.
Hi from America. You're looking gorgeous as usual. I have been praying for both USA and UK for weeks now. I read that Britain is also consecrated to Mother Mary. We can change the dynamics of our lands with prayer 🙏
Another thing = the same thing has happened to Antiques Road show with that other "lovely limelight hogger" directing people to pour out their emotional crap. Forget about the experts except for that black dude who always wants people to give up their antiques 'cos they relate to the slave trade 500 years ago.
Jay Blades ruined the Repair Shop by standing there doing nothing but taking all the credit at the end which is so awkward to watch! It was assumed everyone knew who the hell he was I had never heard of him and took him to be the obligatory token black guy that the BBC had to shoe-horn in to fulfill their diversity quota in spite of him being a complete waste of space🙄🙄🙄🙄 Apparently he's taking time off because of his **LATEST** drama (from what I can gather the guy has lurched from disaster to disaster all his life - he's always the victim of course🙄🙄🙄🙄) *GREAT* I can start watching it again! they really need to get rid of him he's embarrassing
The question that should really be asked is - “Why does the BBC insist on their diversity policy?” Surely people should be employed on ability and not racial quotas!
@@TheHothits100 virtue signalling is a hell of a drug kids come out of Leftie universities addicted to it and work in echo chambers like the BBC but its like the hippies in the 1960s and the yuppies in the 80s - it feels like a permanent social phenomenon but really its just a fashion - they will soon grow out of it
Is that the illiterate former philosophy student / furniture designer who doesn't get his hands dirty or do anything but wears nice clothes? Oh? I know who you mean!,
If we all cross the line together we will all qualify for a medal together with a small slice of our own country . By the way Katie your Anglo-Saxon roots are showing 😂
