All on the table for Repair Shop’s Jay
Star pairs up with Holly hubby to launch new shows Holly
The Repair Shop favourite
is set to furnish viewers with more of his presence… thanks to
’s husband.
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Loveable Jay has set up a firm with TV uber-producer Dan Baldwin , hubby ubby of the This Morning host.
Talk TV hears Dan wants to o make furniture restorer and presenter Jay the hottest property on TV and get him fronting a number of new shows. s.
Their joint venture is called Hungry Jay Media – with Jay and Dan both th listed as directors of the firm.
It is a huge coup for Jay, who o shook off a tough upbringing to find smallscreen stardom.
Dan already runs Hungry Bear Media, which makes high-profile telly shows including All Round to Mrs Brown’s wn’s and
Bradley Walsh & Son: Breaking Dad – comic Bradleys Bradley ’s ITV travel show with his son Barney. Barney .
It is thought the pair will work together on new shows for the
BBC and other broadcasters.
A source says: “It’s bound to turn Jay into an even bigger star, given Dan’s success as a TV producer.”
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Juice and recently set up Hungry McBear with comic Michael Mcintyre .
London-born Jay, 50, is best known as presenter of BBC1’s primetime restoration series The Rep Repair Shop. He is also a regular on th the BBC’s Money for Nothing a and owns modern furniture r restorers Jay & Co.
He says: “If someone like me can front a h hit BBC1 show, so can others from fr similar background grounds. I feel excited to team up with Hungry Bear. I feel fee at home.”
D Dan, 45, adds: “We see this partnership as a lo long-term collaboratio tion of creativity and soc social conscience.
“W “We can’t wait to reve reveal what we’ve been work working on together.”
Go Good luck, Jay!
James May is saving a steak and kidney pud from the 1990s… to eat in 2043. The Grand Tour favourite says he loves tinned and long-lasting nosh, but has a fascination with the Goblin brand.
James, 57, reveals: “It's very small and the sell-by date was 1998, but I kept it and thought, I'm going to eat that one day.
“And I've still got it and my plan was to eat it if I reach 80 and see what it did to me – but I bet you I'll be perfectly okay.”
Watch James May: Oh Cook! on Amazon Prime Video now
Brian Blessed says he is ready to walk on the Coronation Street cobbles – almost 60 years after turning down a job on the soap.
He says: “I was offered it years ago, but was never available. I eventually went into Z Cars.” Brian played PC Fancy Smith on the cop show.
And the Flash Gordon favourite would love to reunite with pal Bill Roache , 88, who has been on Corrie since it started in 1960.
Brian, 84, says: “I knew Bill at Nottingham Playhouse. I taught him quite a bit, to be fair. I'd love to play an explorer who buys a farm and pops in for a pint in The Rovers now and again.”
Brian has partnered with antiviral face mask firm Wise Protec on Wear A Bloody Mask – a satire with a public health message.