Judi Dench was moved with emotion after The Repair Shop’s Steve Fletcher successfully restored her late husband’s watch.
Judi Dench
To mark the BBC show’s fifth anniversary, Jay Blades and The Repair Shop experts had actress as their special client. Bringing in her late husband’s watch she tasked the team with getting it to work once again after many years of silence.
Giving The Repair Shop’s Jay Blades some background information on the special item, she revealed that she’d given it to her late husband Michael Williams in 1972.
The 87-year-old stated that Michael had “treasured” the watch and it reminded her of their happy memories together.
Paying tribute to her husband, she said: “It seemed the perfect present.