Sunday Mirror

All on the table for Repair Shop’s Jay

Star pairs up with Holly hubby to launch new shows Holly

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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.”

Dan also a lso makes

Celebrity

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.

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