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The loyal wife who saved Jay Blades from his troubled past: How fitness instructor Lisa Marie Zbozen helped The Repair Shop host battle back after he fell into homelessness and suffered mental breakdown - as she announces end of the 18-month marriage


Fitness instructor Lisa Marie Zbozen , 43, announced on Thursday that she had left Jay Blades, 54, (pictured together) who she married in November 2022.

The devastated wife of Repair Shop star Jay Blades told friends 'I really don't want this day to come' after she revealed she had left him when the marriage started getting 'worse and worse'. Fitness instructor Lisa Marie Zbozen, 43, helped Jay Blades, 54, (pictured together in happier times) battle back from his troubled past that saw him homeless and struggling from a mental breakdown Dyslexic and unable to read, it wasn't until the star reached aged 51, in 2021, that he began to tackle to the illiteracy problem that had haunted him all of his adult life - after he'd found fame on the show that tapped into the nation's obsession with heritage crafting.

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