POLICE are investigating claims made by Jay Blades’ wife and her sister.
West Mercia Police confirmed to The Sun tonight it has launched a probe after allegations were made by the siblings on social media.
It comes after The Repair Shop star’s wife Lisa Zbozen, 44, confirmed last night the couple’s marriage was over.
She said: “I tried everything to make my marriage work.
“You have no idea how it’s been.”
Her sister Teresa Zbozen has since made reference to “using code words on messages and calls to be sure it’s safe to ring”.
She also wrote about “keeping the secret”, adding: “Right now I am nothing but grateful, relieved and hopeful for my sister’s future outside of her marriage.”
Fitness trainer Lisa – who married Jay in Barbados in November 2022 – posted a statement on Instagram confirming the split.
Furniture restorer and presenter Jay, 54, has been married before and has three children.
Teresa wrote on Instagram today: “Processing and trying to comprehend how or why someone you love could find themselves in this situation has been difficult.
“Keeping the secret, using code words on messages and calls to be sure it’s safe to ring, until it all became too much has left me a range of emotions.
“Right now I am nothing but grateful, relieved and hopeful for my sister’s future outside of her marriage. There are so many why’s? So many questions to which I am sure we will not get the answers.”
She also said: “For those who can’t understand why @lisamariezbozen has spoken out and taken action, I ask what would you do?”
Jay is thought to be still living at the pair’s plush country home in Ironbridge, Shropshire, protected by an eight-foot-high electronic gate.
Lisa’s posts have signalled she is no longer living there, and is thought to have gone to her sister’s home.
Jay has not made any comment about the split.
He had announced earlier this week he was taking a break from social media, following the death of his uncle Richard Brathwaite, 72, which he said had “really affected” him.
He added: “I’m coming off social media for a bit, and I’ll be back in a bit. Going to go and get some therapy and just chill out.”
Mr Braithwaite was found dead in Wembley, North London, in March.
In her social media posts, Lisa cried as she confessed that despite “wanting the marriage to work so much”, she felt she “couldn’t be enough”.
She admitted to her 141,000 followers: “I don’t really, I still don’t really believe that this is actually real because if you knew how much I loved my husband and how much I have tried to make this work over and over again.
“I just wanted it so much and I couldn’t be enough. I couldn’t seem to get it right ever.”
Sharing the news of their split earlier on Thursday, Lisa wrote: “I don’t know how to say this because it’s still really raw.
“I probably should be really angry but I’m just incredibly sad about the whole thing right now.”
