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Jay Blades' marriage split puts The Repair Shop Christmas special in crisis as furniture restorer tells bosses he will not be able to take part in planned recording, sparking 'genuine fears' it may never be finished
The production has been plunged into chaos after the furniture restorer and host told bosses he would not be able to take part in the planned recording, sparking fears the show wouldn't be finished.
The production has been plunged into chaos after the furniture restorer and host told bosses he would not be able to take part in last week's planned recording, sparking 'genuine fears' the show may not be finished. Filming had already begun at the Weald & Downland Living Museum in Chichester when 54-year-old Blades pulled out, sources on the hit BBC programme revealed, with work suddenly put on hold last Monday. He rubbed shoulders with Charles – then still Prince of Wales – when he and his team visited Dumfries House in Scotland to mark 100 years of the BBC and were asked to fix a clock and a vase.
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