Jay Blades' sister-in-law posts cryptic message after The Repair Shop star's wife revealed marriage split: Lisa Zbozen's sister tells of 'keeping secrets' and using 'code words' on messages and calls 'until it all became too much'

Jay Blades's sister-in-law has posted a cryptic message on social media after The Repair Shop star's wife revealed their marriage had ended.

Teresa Zbozen, whose sister Lisa Zbozen married Blades in November 2022, 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.'

It comes after fitness trainer Lisa yesterday took to Instagram to confirm the split from Blades, who has been married once 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?'

Today, furniture restorer Blades was believed to be holed up at the stunning country home he once shared with Lisa as friends rallied round after her very public announcement that their marriage was over.

Lisa posted an emotional statement to social media signalling she had ended their 18-month marriage and was no longer living at the property adjoining a sprawling country estate.

A female friend was seen arriving at the secluded property while another friend who opened the eight-foot-high gate electronic refused to comment.

A black Range Rover with a personalised number plate and Bentley car were parked in the expansive driveway to the detached property that is hidden from the road by a wall and shrubbery.

The friend who opened the main front gate monitored by a CCTV camera said: 'There is nothing to say.'

Neighbours said they hardly saw 54-year-old Blades, who runs a furniture restoration company in the Shropshire village of Ironbridge, at the property.

One told MailOnline: 'He is away filming most of the time, but they are a very private couple. The house is very secluded, and you would only see then when they drive out.'

Liza is understood to have fled to her sister's home where she posted an emotional statement about the end of her marriage to her Instagram account.

Blades has not made any comment about the split having already announced earlier this week that he was taking a break from social media, saying that the death of his 'super nice guy' uncle had 'really affected me'.

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.'

Blades's uncle Richard Brathwaite, 72, was found dead in Wembley, north London, in March after allegedly being stabbed to death by a neighbour following a long-running dispute over a shared alleyway.

A man, also aged 72, has been charged with murder, wounding with intent and possession of a bladed article in a public place.

Also today, one neighbour living near Blades's house said she did not approve of the way fitness instructor Liza had announced to the world that their marriage was over.

She said: 'When it is something like a marriage split, I don't think it helps when they tell everything to the world. That is not going to help. The only person it helps is the other party as they have remained silent.'

Blades and his wife have lived at the house in a village near Wolverhampton since their wedding just over 18 months ago in Barbados.

The star of the BBC series is said to guard his privacy and while discussing his home in interviews has never revealed its exact location other than to say it is near to Ironbridge, famous for the world's first iron bridge which was erected over the River Severn at Coalbrookdale in 1779.

He has described the property as a coach house that is sparsely furnished but has his prized 3,000 vinyl record collection.

'It's in the middle of the countryside. You see cows walking past when you come outside the house, people riding horses,' he said in a 2023 interview with House Beautiful magazine.

'It's really nice. At the moment we've got these bird feeders and all the birds have been coming in to feed this morning. It's a lovely thing to watch.'

He added: 'I spend most of my time in the front room with my record player. It's quite sparse with two chairs as I don't have a sofa. My wife is always going on at me about getting a sofa but I haven't got one yet. I've got to sort that out.

'It's mainly decorated with records, there's an obscene amount of records in there, maybe around 3,000.'

In her social media posts, Lisa wept as she confessed that despite 'wanting the marriage to work so much', she felt she 'couldn't be enough'.

Struggling to stifle her tears, the 44-year-old admitted: '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.'

Thanking her 141,000 followers, she continued: 'So here I am. Thank you everybody who has sent me things to read etc. It is really helpful because your mind wanders into memories as supposed to facts.

'And I know there are a lot of you out there who resonate with what I am going through right now and I wonder when you get to the point where you won't feel so bad about yourself.

'When you don't feel like, you just don't understand why you just weren't enough? Why everything you did just didn't seem to be enough?'

As she captioned the final clip 'One day at a time' alongside a heartbroken emoji, she concluded: 'Big breaths, one day at a time right. One day at a time.

'It's just really sad, I should be angry but I just, I'm just sad.'

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.'

Blades found fame on the BBC restoration programme The Repair Shop - which sees members of the public take worn-out family heirlooms to be restored by a team of experts - starring on the show since its launch in 2017.

In 2022, a special one-off episode to mark the BBC's centenary saw Blades and the repair team visit the King, when he was still the Prince of Wales, at Dumfries House in Scotland.

During The Repair Shop: A Royal Visit, a bracket clock and a piece made for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee by British ceramics maker Wemyss Ware were both fixed - and the broadcast later won a daytime Bafta TV award.

Blades was made an MBE for his work in promoting heritage craft and restoration in the UK in May 2022.