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Jay Blades (Jason Blades) was born on 21 February, 1970 in Brent, London, England, is a British furniture restorer and television presenter. Discover Jay Blades's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 54 years old?

Popular As Jason Blades
Occupation Furniture restorer*television personality
Age 54 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 21 February, 1970
Birthday 21 February
Birthplace Brent, London, England
Nationality London, England

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Who Is Jay Blades's Wife?

His wife is Lisa Zbozen (m. 22 November 2022)

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Jay Blades Net Worth

His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Jay Blades worth at the age of 54 years old? Jay Blades’s income source is mostly from being a successful television. He is from London, England. We have estimated Jay Blades's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2024 $1 Million - $5 Million
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Timeline

1940

Jay Blades: No Place Like Home featured locations such as Ridley Road Market (the history of anti-fascist action in the 1940s), Newington Green Unitarian Church (slavery and abolitionism), the Pellici cafe (the Kray twins and gangsterism), and the site of the First World War bombing by airship.

In September 2022 Blades appeared on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs and said that his childhood had been "blighted by racism and violence".

In October 2022 Blades was the lead presenter for the edition of The Repair Shop which featured King Charles III.

In June 2023, Channel 4 commissioned Britain’s Best Beach Huts, which Blades co-presented with Laura Jackson.

The series aired during June and July 2023.

In June 2023, Blades presented Jay Blades' East End Through Time; a three-part documentary series shown on Channel 5, which was followed by The Midlands Through Time in October.

During early 2024, Blades and Sir David Jason presented David & Jay's Touring Toolshed; a fifteen-part restoration series on BBC2.

Blades lives in Ironbridge in Shropshire.

He has three children.

His youngest, a daughter, is from his first marriage and he has two sons from previous relationships.

Blades married his second wife Lisa Zbozen in Barbados in November 2022.

Blades was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2021 Birthday Honours, for services to craft.

He was appointed the first Chancellor of Buckinghamshire New University in May 2022.

1970

Jason Blades (born 21 February 1970) is a British furniture restorer and television presenter.

He grew up in Hackney, which in his childhood was a working class area of Inner London, and now lives in Ironbridge in Shropshire.

Blades was born in Brent, North London and raised in Hackney, East London with his mother and maternal half-brother.

As an adult he learned that his father had 25 other children, from different mothers, in a number of different countries.

He has dyslexia, which was not diagnosed at school.

He experienced racism both at school and from the police.

As a young man he worked as a labourer and in factories.

He enrolled in Buckinghamshire New University as a mature student to study criminology.

It was only then, aged 31, that he was diagnosed with the reading ability of an 11-year old.

2010

During the early 2010s, roughly between 2012 and 2013 Blades was involved in the running of a children's club known as "Men Behaving Dadly", a weekend playgroup aimed at young children and their fathers.

It took place at Bedfont & Chiswick children's centres.

Blades and his wife Jade set up a charity based in High Wycombe, Out of the Dark, to train disadvantaged young people in furniture restoration.

The charity lost funding, their marriage broke down, and he became homeless.

He was supported by friends and by the Caribbean community.

Around the same time, television producers saw a short film about the charity which led to his work as a presenter.

He moved to Wolverhampton and established Jay & Co, a social enterprise to support disadvantaged and disengaged groups.

In 2021 Blades became trustee of a charity founded by singer Leigh-Anne Pinnock, The Black Fund.

They had met years previously when Blades ran a youth club and choir which Pinnock, then 14 years old, joined.

Also in that year he released a memoir, Making It: How Love, Kindness and Community Helped Me Repair My Life, published by Pan Macmillan UK.

Blades was appointed co-chair of the Heritage Crafts Association in August 2022.

He is best known for presenting The Repair Shop, Money for Nothing and Jay Blades' Home Fix, and co-presenting Jay and Dom's Home Fix.

He has also appeared on Would I Lie to You?, Celebrity Masterchef, Richard Osman's House of Games, Michael McIntyre's The Wheel, and The Graham Norton Show.

In August 2021, Blades filmed a documentary programme for BBC One, Jay Blades: Learning to Read at 51, depicting his recent attempts, with the support of the charity Read Easy UK, to improve his literacy.

He danced with Luba Mushtuk in the 2021 Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special.

In May 2022 he appeared in a three-part series on Channel 5 revisiting the area he grew up in, and interviewing childhood friends, experts, and witnesses to history.