By contributor Josh Payne, PA Chief Reporter<\/p>\n
TV presenter Jay Blades<\/a>, from Claverley<\/a>, is due to appear in court charged with rape.<\/p>\n West Mercia Police<\/a> previously said the 55-year-old, who fronted primetime BBC show The Repair Shop, will face a first hearing at Telford Magistrates\u2019 Court<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n Blades faces two allegations of rape but will not be expected to enter pleas during his first appearance.<\/p>\n The defendant, of Claverley in Shropshire, found fame on restoration programme The Repair Shop, which he started presenting in 2017.<\/p>\n He stepped back from presenting the show last year.<\/p>\n Blades also appeared on Celebrity Masterchef, Celebrity Bake Off and Comic Relief, as well as presenting the BBC\u2019s Money For Nothing until 2020.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By contributor Josh Payne, PA Chief Reporter TV presenter Jay Blades, from Claverley, is due to appear in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[33834,924,96,59,2652,50,3687,56,225,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-63685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-bridgnorth","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-gb","12":"tag-local-hubs","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-shropshire","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-uk-news","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}