Jay Blades: Dyslexia has given me 'other qualities'
Jay Blades has said he never reads emails sent to him by TV producers because they give him a headache.
The Repair Shop presenter has dyslexia and found out at university that he had the reading age of an 11 year old.
He told 5 Live鈥檚 Nihal Arthanayake: 鈥淚 celebrate being dyslexic because it's given me a load of other qualities. My memory is insane, my visual picture is unbelievable."
It was only after he had been presenting The Repair Shop for three series that Jay told producers he couldn鈥檛 read the briefs they sent him.
He told them: "If I read an email, it鈥檚 just going to hurt my head and I won鈥檛 be able to come here."
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