Funny & warm..an inspiration

BY CLAIRE O'BOYLE

Edd Kimber, who won in 2010, said: "She was absolutely lovely. Very grandmotherly, very warm."
Recalling his audition when he made a Bakewell tart, he said Mary branded it the best she had tasted.
He added: "For me at 23 or 24, 1 remember thinking no one had ever given me that sort of praise before."
Edd had not heard of Mary before the show and had none of her cookbooks. But that was not the case for Candice Brown, the final BBC winner in 2016.
She said: "Mary was one of the main reasons I wanted to go on Bake Off. I said I wanted her to be my nan.
"I remember her looking glamorous. So tiny but her pr...

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