Repair Shop star Steve Fletcher didn’t believe show was real
Steve Fletcher is The Repair Shop’s clock expert and he admitted the call to take part in the show came “out of the blue”.
Speaking on Alan Titchmarsh’s Love Your Weekend show, he said he had no experience with filming when he received an exciting email.
He said: “Out of the blue I got this email asking if I wanted to be involved, I didn’t believe it.
“Mel, my wife, looked at the phone number and said this is a proper company.”
Once the BBC had come up with the idea for the show, they were tasked with scouting experts in certain crafts.
Steve continued: “I went down just for two weeks and I said to the producer I can repair other things as well.
“I started repairing all sorts of things which I really liked doing.
“I have always done it ever since I was a child so to do it on the programme was amazing. It was just like going back to childhood again.”
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Steve, who runs the Clock Workshop in Oxfordshire, has been a part of the series since day one in 2017.
Having become a fan-favourite, he recently disclosed a filming secret which involved a handy piece of kit he designed.
Steve is rarely seen on camera without a pen and he revealed the pen is in fact a microphone.
In a behind-the-scenes clip from the BBC show, Steve commented: “We’re now in the middle of filming the new series of The Repair Shop.
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“And one of the things that you might not know when you see it on the camera is that this little pen here is not a pen at all.”
“It’s a microphone that I made up because the sound people had so many problems with putting microphones here, there and everywhere.
“And it was rustling all the time, so I devised this pen microphone that just fits the bill and works a treat.”
The star thanked his wife Mel for encouraging him to join the series, previously stating: “In 2016 I received an email from a company that I hadn’t heard of asking if I would be interested in taking part in a brand new show.
“Not trusting anything that is on the internet, I nearly deleted it and would have done if my partner, Mel, hadn’t stopped me, saying that it all looks ok.”
The Repair Shop airs on BBC One on Wednesdays from 8pm
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