Repair Shop Jay as the new Brucie?
THE Repair Shop star Jay Blades wants to fix up a new job – as the next Bruce Forsyth.
Furniture restorer Jay, 50, reckons he’s got the polish to host a prime-time game show and wants TV bosses to give him a crack.
The star is foreman of The Repair Shop, where heirlooms are restored.
It has been a huge lockdown hit and has moved from BBC2 to BBC1.
He said: “I get these channels talking to me and they say, ‘Well, what do you want to do, Jay?’ And I said, ‘I’d like to be a game show host’.”
Jay added that he’s never seen a black male primetime game show host, saying that black TV journalist Trevor McDonald “set the benchmark for people like myself ”.