{"id":87299,"date":"2023-11-02T17:55:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T17:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebritytidings.com\/?p=87299"},"modified":"2023-11-02T17:55:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T17:55:28","slug":"jay-blades-says-his-friend-king-charles-is-just-a-normal-geezer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebritytidings.com\/world-news\/jay-blades-says-his-friend-king-charles-is-just-a-normal-geezer\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay Blades says his &apos;friend&apos; King Charles is &apos;just a normal geezer&apos;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The Repair shop star Jay Blades says &#8216;friend&#8217; King Charles is &#8216;just a normal geezer&#8217; as he recalls iconic experience of having the royal on his show<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Repair Shop&#8217;s Jay Blades praised &#8216;friend&#8217; King Charles &#8216;as just a normal geezer&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The two hit it off when the monarch appeared on the BBC show last year\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Repair Shop star Jay Blades has praised his &#8216;friend&#8217; King Charles, telling a BBC interviewer that &#8216;he&#8217;s just a normal geezer&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The crafty furniture restorer appeared to be in good spirits as he chatted to the Capital Breakfast Show with Roman Kemp to talk about his show&#8217;s new book, &#8216;The Repair Shop: Crafts in the Barns&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The team spoke to Jay about the enduring popularity of the award-winning series, its devoted fans, and his Royal &#8216;friend&#8217; who was filmed as a guest in August 2021, although the show aired last year.<\/p>\n<p>Interviewer Chris Stark asked him: &#8216;You&#8217;ve had some big celebs\u2026 Dame Judi Dench,\u00a0King Charles was on it and you&#8217;re watching him get emotional &#8211; this is a guy whose got everything\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;How was it having royalty [in the Repair Shop barn]?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/05\/04\/11\/70569041-12046053-image-m-70_1683194891039.jpg\" height=\"645\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Viewers of The Repair Shop went wild last night over the rapport between King Charles and Jay Blades on a special royal version of the show<\/p>\n<p>Jay replied: &#8216;The same as having anybody else\u2026&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The group laughed along, as Sian Welby joked: &#8216;You&#8217;re mates with him aren&#8217;t you, you&#8217;re like his cool friend, you can tell he loves him!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>To which, Jay said: &#8216;Yeah he&#8217;s just a normal geezer, he&#8217;s alright, he&#8217;s my rich friend, he runs the country!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>In the hour-long special The Repair Shop: A Royal Visit, King Charles needed help with an 18th-century bracket clock and a piece made for Queen Victoria&#8217;s Diamond Jubilee by British ceramics maker Wemyss Ware.<\/p>\n<p>He said the damaged 19th century ceramic piece fell over when someone was opening a window &#8211; &#8216;they didn&#8217;t own up&#8217;, he joked.<\/p>\n<p>The show was filmed in August 2021, when Charles was still Prince of Wales, in preparations for the BBC&#8217;s centenary celebrations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, when it finally aired last October,\u00a0 it was the friendship between the two men which left viewers blown away, with one writing: &#8216;The rapport between King Charles and Jay Blades on The Repair Shop is superb. In a world where everything is &#8220;binned&#8221; at the drop of a hat, it&#8217;s a brilliant and refreshing show.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/05\/04\/11\/70569043-12046053-image-a-74_1683195253788.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Presenter Jay Blades and the team visited Dumfries House in Scotland for a one-off episode to mark the BBC &#8216;s centenary filmed when Charles was still the Prince of Wales and initially aired back in October<\/p>\n<p>Another commented: &#8216;Just watched again The Repair Shop where they repaired two of, the then Prince Charles&#8217;, antiques from Dumfries House. In stitches again at how incredibly relaxed and informal Jay Blades was.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Loved it when he told the King not to be a stranger.&#8217;\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A third added: &#8216;Charles is brilliant on the Repair Shop tonight.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the episode, Charles met students from the Prince&#8217;s Foundation Building Craft Programme &#8211; a training initiative that teaches traditional skills such as blacksmithing, stonemasonry and wood carving.<\/p>\n<p>The monarch said: &#8216;I still think the great tragedy is the lack of vocational education in schools, actually not everybody is designed for the academic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I know from The Prince&#8217;s Trust, I have seen the difference we can make to people who have technical skills which we need all the time, I have the greatest admiration for people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I think that&#8217;s been the biggest problem, sometimes that is forgotten. Apprenticeships are vital but they just abandoned apprenticeships for some reason. It gives people intense satisfaction and reward.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/05\/04\/11\/70569033-12046053-image-m-73_1683194939496.jpg\" height=\"301\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/05\/04\/11\/70569031-12046053-image-a-71_1683194900516.jpg\" height=\"382\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Many of those watching the programme were blown away by the friendship between the two men (pictured)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Charles said the thing he &#8216;really loves&#8217; is students returning as tutors year after year &#8211; &#8216;filling the school gaps&#8217;, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, he chatted about his love of clocks, saying: &#8216;To me I just love the sound, the tick-tock but also if they chime, that&#8217;s why I love grandfather clocks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I find it rather reassuring in a funny way and they become really special parts of the house&#8230; the beating heart of it. So that&#8217;s why they matter to me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;m afraid it is something I learnt from my grandmother, she had great fun putting a few together and trying to get them to chime at the same time in the dining room, which made it very enjoyable because everybody had to stop talking.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Blades and ceramics expert Kirsten Ramsay, horologist Steve Fletcher and furniture restorer Will Kirk set out to repair the King&#8217;s clock and ceramics in the episode.<\/p>\n<p>Before the results are unveiled, Charles asked the crew: &#8216;Have you sorted this? The suspense is killing me.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The monarch also sent Prince&#8217;s Foundation graduate Jeremy Cash to The Repair Shop to work with metalwork expert Dominic Chinea on a third item described as a fire set in the shape of a soldier with a poignant story behind its existence.<\/p>\n<p>The programme aired after Jay\u00a0revealed he had been invited to the King&#8217;s coronation &#8211; and asked his fans what they thought.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/10\/26\/20\/63881843-11358257-image-a-52_1666814334015.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Helping hand:\u00a0In The Repair Shop: A Royal Visit, King Charles needed help with an 18th-century bracket clock and a piece made for Queen Victoria&#8217;s Diamond Jubilee by British ceramics maker Wemyss Ware<\/p>\n<p>Jay previously spoke about the importance of Charles appearing on the show and speaking to someone &#8216;from a council estate&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8216;You&#8217;ve got someone from a council estate and someone from a royal estate that have the same interests about apprenticeships and heritage crafts, and it is unbelievable to see that two people from so far apart, from different ends of the spectrum, actually have the same interests.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>In the episode, Charles met students from the Prince&#8217;s Foundation Building Craft Programme &#8211; a training initiative that teaches traditional skills such as blacksmithing, stonemasonry and wood carving.<\/p>\n<p>The monarch said: &#8216;I still think the great tragedy is the lack of vocational education in schools, actually not everybody is designed for the academic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I know from The Prince&#8217;s Trust, I have seen the difference we can make to people who have technical skills which we need all the time, I have the greatest admiration for people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I think that&#8217;s been the biggest problem, sometimes that is forgotten. Apprenticeships are vital but they just abandoned apprenticeships for some reason. It gives people intense satisfaction and reward.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Charles said the thing he &#8216;really loves&#8217; is students returning as tutors year after year &#8211; &#8216;filling the school gaps&#8217;, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Before the results are unveiled, Charles asked the crew: &#8216;Have you sorted this? The suspense is killing me.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The monarch also lent Prince&#8217;s Foundation graduate Jeremy Cash to The Repair Shop to work with metalwork expert Dominic Chinea on a third item described as a fire set in the shape of a soldier with a poignant story behind its existence.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12703009\/The-Repair-shop-star-Jay-Blades-says-friend-King-Charles-just-normal-geezer-recalls-iconic-experience-having-royal-show.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Repair shop star Jay Blades says &#8216;friend&#8217; King Charles is &#8216;just a normal geezer&#8217; as he recalls iconic experience of having the royal on his show Repair Shop&#8217;s Jay Blades praised &#8216;friend&#8217; King Charles &#8216;as just a normal geezer&#8217; The two hit it off when the monarch appeared on the BBC show last year\u00a0 The Repair Shop star Jay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87298,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jay Blades says his &amp;apos;friend&amp;apos; 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