Jay Blades’ wife Lisa-Marie Zbozen shares cryptic poem about suffering ‘unbearable’ pain following their shock split
JAY Blades’ wife Lisa-Marie Zbozen has shared a poem about “unbearable pain” following her split from The Repair Shop host.
Lisa-Marie announced she had left the TV star, whom she married in November 2022, at the beginning of May.
In a statement at the time, Lisa-Marie said she was “incredibly sad” about the dissolution of her marriage but things had got “worse and worse” until she packed a bag.
In the weeks since, Lisa-Marie has been trying to continue her workout posts on Instagram as normal as possible.
But on Thursday evening she shared a short poem by Billie Brooks, hinting at the hurt she’s feeling over the break-up.
The poem urged the reader to “treat himself kindly” over the pain they may be feeling, encouraging them with “it might be hard but you won’t feel this way forever”.
It was titled “You Deserve to Be Happy”.
The message comes nearly two weeks after her bombshell statement on social media that confirmed the end of her marriage to Jay.
“I don’t know how to say this because it’s still really raw,” she said. “’I probably should be really angry but I’m just incredibly sad about the whole thing right now. I don’t think I’ve ever cried so much.
“I wanted my husband to love me [and] keep me safe, and I would love him right back, but it just got worse and worse, until I grabbed a bag of a few things [and] I just left.
“Anyway, That’s why there’s been no new wkouts,” she added. “I would never miss a wkout. I’d do it on the pavement bare foot & naked if I had to.”
“I will admit I’m crying as I type this as I can’t believe this is even real,” she later added in a secondary post.
“I hope you don’t mind if I just have a few days trying to figure out my life as I’m currently in a spare room with a few essentials.
“I don’t know what else to say. The world got the best parts of my husband, and over time I got a whole lot of everything else.”
She signed off as “a very broken Lisa-Marie”.
Jay wed Lisa-Marie in front of just 15 guests at a beachfront villa in Barbados in November 2022.
JAY AND LISA MARIE'S RELATIONSHIP
Jay got down on one knee with a ring he designed and was made by his co-star Richard Talman who works as a goldsmith on the show in 2021.
They tied the knot in a sunny Caribbean ceremony on November 2022 with just 15 guests attending.
Speaking to Hello! magazine about their special day, Jay, 52, said: “One word sums up the day: perfect.
“We had our closest family there, the weather held out and everything worked out so well.”
Lisa, 41, added: “Once you get to a certain age, you realise what’s actually important on the day – and that is having the people around you that love you for who you are.
“So we made the day our day.”
Jay was overcome with emotion during the ceremony.
The television presenter confessed: “I think the thing that was most emotional for me was actually saying the vows.
“It was almost like I had tunnel vision and I could only see Lisa there.
“And honestly, that’s when it really hit me. I was like, ‘We’re really getting married now!’. That’s the only time I really got emotional.”
Jay was previously married to his ex-wife Jade.
The pair, who split up in 2015, share daughter Zola, 15.
As part of the ceremony, the couple exchanged “imperfect” rings designed by Repair Shop colleague Richard Talman.
Jay has since stepped back from his work on BBC’s The Repair Shop in order to process both the end of his marriage, and the murder of his uncle, Richard Braithwaite.
Braithwaite was allegedly stabbed to death in March during an altercation in Wembley, Southwest London.