By Georgia Humphreys
Queen of Home Cooking, Mary Berry, uses the vintage opera glasses to cast her eye on the detail of the celebrities ingredients, techniques and culinary skills from the mezzanine, a vantage point shared with judges Angela Hartnett and Chris Bavin As Celebrity Best Home Cook hits our screens, judge Dame Mary Berry and host Claudia Winkleman tell Georgia Humphreys about filming during Covid-19. Dame Mary Berry is a baking superstar - one of the nation s most-loved cookery writers and TV personalities. She is also over 80 (she turns 86 in March), putting her in one of the categories deemed most vulnerable to coronavirus.
Mary Berry on comfort food and filming during Covid
Updated / Monday, 25 Jan 2021
11:03
Mary Berry on comfort food and filming during Covid.
Mary Berry is a baking superstar – one of the nation’s most-loved cookery writers and TV personalities. She is also over 80 (she turns 86 in March), putting her in one of the categories deemed most vulnerable to coronavirus.
And so, as well as the usual social distancing guidelines and regular testing, extra precautions were taken to keep Bath-born Berry safe on the set of her latest TV series, BBC One’s Celebrity Best Home Cook.
Firstly, a 15ft-high special viewing platform was built as a mezzanine floor for her, so she could look down on everyone ( It was a bit royal! she says, when I suggest she must have felt like the Queen). She was also given special opera glasses to make sure she could see everything the cooks were doing down below as they prepared their various dishes, hoping to impress Berry and her fellow judges, Angela H