King’s visit to The Repair Shop wins daytime Bafta TV award

The daytime Bafta TV award has gone to The Repair Shop for an episode featuring the King.

In the one-off special, the repair team including Jay Blades visited Charles at Dumfries House in Scotland for The Repair Shop: A Royal Visit.

Arriving on the stage to accept the gong, Blades said: “Wow, just give me two seconds, I have to take a picture, it’s quite special.

“We started as a daytime show on BBC Two, I’m so glad we’ve got an (award).”

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The then-Prince of Wales with Jay Blades (right) during a special episode of The Repair Shop as part of the BBC’s centenary celebrations (Ian West/PA)

During the show’s episode, Charles saw a bracket clock and a piece made for Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee by British ceramics maker Wemyss Ware fixed and also joked and laughed with Blades.

It also featured Blades touching Charles’s arm and him returning the gesture by placing a hand on his back.

Speaking to the PA news agency from the red carpet of the Bafta TV awards, Blades said attending the coronation was “magical”.

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Jay Blades (centre) during the coronation ceremony of the King and Queen Camilla at Westminster Abbey in London (Gareth Cattermole/PA)

“It was special.”

Blades added that The Repair Shop has a “simple message, but a big message”.

He said: “It’s all about community – there’s a community of us at The Repair Shop and then we’re helping people that we don’t know, so what you’re doing there is you’re actually showing humanity. That’s what the show’s all about.”

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