Jay Blades charged with with coercive and controlling behaviour against his ex wife

Agreed.

why am I not surprised? he is so full of himself

You often find these people who are flavour of the month and then get an MBE or other award are then uncovered and not the person they pretend to be.

No surprise here either

I knew too! You could just tell he was a jumped up little ……

Goodness! Have you all got him convicted without hearing one sentence of evidence? I don't know whether he's guilty or not, but hope the jury serve on it with less preconceptions. The oath jurors take does include the words "I will faithfully try the defendant and give a true verdict according to the evidence" not "I always knew/suspected"

I’m not surprised. Whether or not he’s guilty I’ve never liked him and I always trust my instincts.

merlotgran

I’m not surprised. Whether or not he’s guilty I’ve never liked him and I always trust my instincts.

Same here. I first saw him on Money for nothing painting deck chairs and the like.
Then he’s hailed as a furniture restorer.
I wonder who’s going to get the leather apron. 😂 Hopefully a real craftsman, Will.

Rosie51

Goodness! Have you all got him convicted without hearing one sentence of evidence? I don't know whether he's guilty or not, but hope the jury serve on it with less preconceptions. The oath jurors take does include the words "I will faithfully try the defendant and give a true verdict according to the evidence" not "I always knew/suspected"

His lovely wife didn’t leave the marital in a hurry with just a suitcase because he looked at her the wrong way 🤷‍♀️

I think that it's generally accepted that people are innocent until proven guilty.

Rosie51 - what you said.

I don't know the man, nor do any of the previous posters (I'm assuming here) but the only thing I find annoying about him personally is constantly stating that he comes from the East End of London, when he quite clearly came from the North of London - but that's just an irritation, not an accusation of being off or jumped up!

I do think that someone with his chaotic, sad home-life and history in personal relationships will be carrying a lot of baggage though and maybe it's not that surprising if something's gone badly wrong.

The jury in this case will hear details which we'll never know about and I hope, like Rosie that they will be able to consider the facts and evidence without prejudice.

I said on a previous thread about him that he never seemed genuine to me and I stand by that whatever the outcome of this charge.

This story was the opening headline item on the evening news. Good grief. All that’s going on around the world and this is the top story. If he’s found guilty I hope he’s suitably punished and removed from our tv screens. But was it really necessary to show a compilation of his tv appearances taking up the first couple of mins of the evening news? 🙄

After all the Huw Edwards business, it seems the BBC are keen to be seen to be acting promptly to inform us of anything ‘untoward’ with its presenters, first that ex footballer on the One Show, and now this.

I am fairly sure Jay Blades came from Hackney which is E8

Oh how I wish it was possible to tell from looking at a man whether he is a nasty piece of work. Unfortunately it really isn’t. My first husband who I was thankfully only married to for just over a year was abusive physically and mentally but all my friends did and family loved him, he could charm the birds from the trees.

Correction - but all my friends and family loved him

What will Judi Dench say?

Retread

What will Judi Dench say?

I imagine Judi has made a lot of money on the back of the programme made with Blades, and he probs isn’t the first bad egg she has worked with during her long career, as a professional she will obvs make no comment.

I loved him, shows how gullible I am!

Always a bit of a poseur I thought.

Cadenza123

I think that it's generally accepted that people are innocent until proven guilty.

Not on here, obviously.

Calendargirl

After all the Huw Edwards business, it seems the BBC are keen to be seen to be acting promptly to inform us of anything ‘untoward’ with its presenters, first that ex footballer on the One Show, and now this.

Yes, I think this is the case, too.

I also think that they (the BBC) will have enough information to know the likely outcome. They won't sacrifice a popular employee for the sake of it.

If they report on one of their own being dodgy, it almost certainly means they are.

I don't know why we bother with court cases, the arena of trial by popular opinion should always suffice.