A biography for Jay Bladeshasn’t been written yet.
“Learning to read is going to be the toughest challenge for me.”
“For several days I lived in my car in a retail park just off the M5. My ex-wife called the police and declared me as a missing person and they put out a nationwide search and eventually they found me.”
“My mum moved to Luton and I lived up there with her for a bit.”
“The level of racism that I received in school was insane.”
“My alarm is set for six o'clock but every day at half five, I'm up - let's go, let's go!”
“There's so much stuff that the normal person doesn't know that historians know.”
“You have to make a mistake to succeed. If anybody came to you and says 'I'm always winning,' something's not right there. Someone has to make a mistake, and those people that make the mistakes are normally the people that then go on to be very, very successful.”
“I think when you don't see tomorrow and you don't see yourself in tomorrow, you're in that kind of zone and it's really hard to comprehend how you're going to come out of it.”
“Me being on TV is hopefully encouraging people to say, well, Jay's done this from where he's come from. I'm sure we can do it, we just need to see things in a different light and try to apply ourselves, even though there's going to be difficulties.”
“Making things just allowed me to feel good every day.”
“I'm one of these ever-romantics, 'This is the one. No, there's another one. She's the one. She's the one. She's the one.' I was a little bit free with my love.”
“I've seen more men crying on 'The Repair Shop' than I have in the entire rest of my life.”
“There is a lot of support out there, and a lot of local support, so just tap into the resources around you. I'm very fortunate that I've had family around me to support me - but when I've needed additional support, it's there. It's refreshing when you find it.”
“I've got my own businesses, employing people that I want to employ. How cool is that?”
“Me and my brother were always making and repairing things - what people call upcycling now.”
“People lie just to get on TV.”
“I always suffered heartbreak because I fell in love all the time.”
“If you're not making something that can be repaired, why are you making it? It's just going to go to landfill.”
“No matter where you are in your life, no matter what you think you can't achieve, there are some people that are out there ready to support you.”
“What we are asking the consumer to do is learn to buy and have habits in a completely different way. To think about the carbon footprint of whatever they're buying. Whether it's food, the t-shirt, the car.”