Repair Shop's Jay Blades admits love cheat past as he dated sisters at same time
Repair Shop star Jay Blades has admitted he was a love cheat from the age of 12 and even managed to date two sisters at the same time.
The furniture restorer confessed there were "a lot of broken hearts" over the years as his habit started at a young age. He believes his behaviour stems from his relationship with his mum Barbara Cumberbatch as she never showed him love. In a honest chat, Jay confessed: “We’re talking about lots of girls. There were a lot of broken hearts along the way. There was even one point where I was going out with two sisters and they lived in the same house.
“It’s crazy — imagine that. I told them not to tell each other, and they didn’t. I think I had another girl as well. I was really bad. They came round to my house at different times. I would say to one of them I was somewhere else, and I wasn’t.” The 53-year-old said he was always nice to his love interests, “I did make them laugh," he shared.
Jay says there were 'a lot of broken hearts' (Getty Images)
The presenter is now happily married to wife Lisa (David Fisher/REX/Shutterstock for NTA)“We’d go out partying, mainly reggae and ska, two-tone they were playing, and then someone took me to a soul party and there were more women than there was at the reggae. And I said to myself, ‘Hold on a minute, I’m missing a trick here, there’s all men at that party and there’s all women here’. I just went to soul parties from there.”
The presenter revealed his mum failed to show love as he was a dead ringer for his father, who had mistreated her. As a result, Jay said it caused a string of dishonest and short-term relationships. Speaking on Gyles Brandreth’s Rosebud podcast, he said: “I started two- timing probably when I was about 12 or 13. That’s when I was very naughty. The reason why, and I figured this out later, is because I was looking for that mother figure.
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“I didn’t have it with my mum, there wasn’t a real connection. There wasn’t motherly love from my mum, and I kind of understand — because when I got to meet my dad, when I was 21, I looked very similar to him. So there must be this thing where she’s been kicked out of the family house, this person has taken the money, he’s lied to her, now she’s got this child that looks the spitting image of him who she has to look after. So that must be a tough thing.
“Imagine not receiving love or not understanding what love is or not having this kind of notion of ‘OK, that is motherly love, that’s the love you’re supposed to get’. You then start searching for it and hence why I dabbled with a number of women when I was younger. I was looking for something. I didn’t have a guide, let’s say. For in- stance, you learned to drive. There’s no one who just gets put in a car and they know exactly what to do.
“Imagine I didn’t have an instructor, so then how can you expect me to do something that I’ve never been instructed in what to do?” Jay is actually still in touch with some of the former flames from his past, as he shared: “I get on with all of them — I think they understand.”
The TV star married his second wife Lisa Zbozen last November, who he has nicknamed 'Tiny'. Gyles told Jay: “She asked me to ask you, are you now monogamous? Will you just get it on record?” Jay replied: “Yes, one hundred per cent. My missus, Tiny, she’s ‘wow’. She’s come along at the right time in the sense I’ve grown up now and I’m so content. You need the right team around you.”
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