The Repair Shop fans stunned as voiceover artist makes rare appearance on camera

Fans of the BBC's deed amusement The Repair Shop were stunned to spot amusement narrator Bill Paterson measurement retired of the signaling booth to look successful beforehand of the cameras connected the show

Fans of charming BBC daytime amusement The Repair Shop were stunned erstwhile a usually unseen formed subordinate appeared connected the show.

The long-running series - which sees a radical of antiques specialists assistance members of the nationalist hole aged and breached possessions that they emotion - has been connected the aerial since 2017 and has tally for 306 episodes and counting. While the bid has made household names retired of prima experts including Will Kirk, Dominic Chinea and Suzie Fletcher, the amusement has been narrated by a distinctive Scottish star.

Bill Paterson has described each the enactment shown connected surface for the bulk of the episodes that person aired. The 79-year-old prima archetypal began voicing the amusement during play 1 earlier taking clip disconnected and past returning from play 5 onwards - with Welsh histrion Robert Pugh, 79, taking the reigns for seasons 2-4.

But connected Wednesday's occurrence of the show, Bill himself stepped retired from the signaling booth to instrumentality portion successful the occurrence - leaving fans stunned arsenic helium appeared connected the screen. Wearing a brace of circular rimmed glasses and a layered outfit, the prima looked distinguished arsenic helium featured successful beforehand of the cameras.

Taking to X, galore fans shared their astonishment astatine seeing him connected screen. One wrote connected X: "Wow, that's REALLY unusual seeing the dependable of #therepairshop connected screen." Another wrote: "Seeing Bill connected surface a surprise." And a further instrumentality highlighted immoderate of the dependable artist's different work, writing: "Voice of #therepairshop besides played Bruno’s dada successful the 90s movie of The Witches, if you’ve seen that."

Indeed, TV fans whitethorn person precocious seen Bill featuring successful HBO deed amusement House of the Dragon. The prima played Lord Beesbury successful play 1 of the Game of Thrones prequel - but met a brutal extremity astatine the hands of 1 of the main characters.

In the ninth occurrence of the archetypal season, Lord Beesbury, who was Master of Coin connected the Small Council, was 1 of the lone radical who stood up to the Green faction erstwhile they plotted to enactment Aegon II connected the Iron Throne. When helium called the remainder retired for treason and regicide, helium had his caput brutally slammed against 1 of the chromatic balls connected the array by Ser Criston Cole and instantly died.

The Repair Shop was dragged into disrepute this twelvemonth erstwhile prima Jay Blades was accused of coercive behaviour by his wife, fittingness teacher Lisa-Marie Zbozen - who helium divided from this year. He has denied the allegations made against him by her. Episodes featuring the prima were subsequently shelved by the BBC - with reports saying the 2025 Christmas peculiar volition beryllium axed.

Channel 5 person shelved a documentary bid Blades was making called A Country House Through Time. And Channel 4 person confirmed they volition not beryllium making a sequel to his caller travelogue with Dame Judi Dench, The Odd Couple. The prima had presented The Repair Shop for 7 years.

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