The presenter on his relationship with his two mothers – and what it’s like having grown-up children who ‘don’t want to be around Dad’
How do famous names spend their precious downtime? In our weekly My Saturday column, celebrities reveal their weekend virtues and vices. This week: Jay Blades
I don’t have an alarm, my body clock wakes me up. As soon as I get up I’ll do some yoga twists, 50 squats, and 100 push-ups. I have a cup of tea, an avocado, and a nice roll-up – I love smoking. I try to maintain a healthy lifestyle but smoking is the one thing I can’t give up. Then I’ll spend 20 minutes on social media – but sometimes I’ll waste time on Instagram, it’s very addictive. I’ll often lose an hour looking at funny videos of cats.
I live with my wife [fitness trainer Lisa Zbozen] in Ironbridge, Wolverhampton. I’ve got three kids with three different women but I’ve stopped that now. My wife cooks me breakfast – either two boiled eggs or scrambled eggs, smoked salmon and spinach. I’ll have a shower and then go to the dry cleaners or the tailors nearby to get things fitted for filming that week.
I’ll potter about during the afternoon. It could be the Instagram cats again, or I’ll clean my records. I collect records, it’s very addictive. My favourite is probably Gregory Porter, but picking one out is like choosing your favourite child. I recently bought about 400 records, but I’m now having to buy more boxes to store them in. The other day I spent £500 on boxes.