FATHEADS!
Snowflake viewers boil over as Mary Berry teases celebrity chef (who laughed off her joke about his size)
SHE has always kept her slender figure. He clearly loves his food.
And when Mary Berry met celebrity chef Nathan Outlaw, she couldn’t resist making a gentle dig at his expense.
After he told her that he likes surfing, she teased him: ‘You, surfing? You must go very fast – a bit of weight on that board!’
Outlaw, 40, whose cooking has won him two Michelin stars, laughed off her comment, telling her: ‘It was a very, very big surfboard, that’s all I say.’
But even though he joined in the joke, some viewers who saw the exchange on BBC1’s Classic Mary Berry cookery show were whipped up into a frenzy of outrage.
Proving that in this day and age anyone can take offence at anything, they accused the former Great British Bake Off judge of ‘fat-shaming’ – a favourite term among the snowflake generation for any comment about someone’s weight.
She was accused on social media of being rude to Outlaw. The 83-year-old was also told she was ‘old enough’ to know better.
Miss Berry had travelled to Cornwall to be filmed cooking with Outlaw and made the comment after he told her he based himself in the county because he likes surfing. Later, when they were making a marinade, Miss Berry asked Outlaw to reveal his method for preparing the garlic.
He told her: ‘I usually crush it with the side of a knife’, after which she quipped: ‘There’s a bit of pressure going down there. If I did that I wouldn’t squash it.’
She made a similar remark about Outlaw’s physique when showing how to spatchcock a chicken.
And when Miss Berry asked if the yogurt that he was using in a recipe was full fat, he told her, ‘You don’t get a body like this eating low fat’, to which she replied: ‘Exactly!’
Miss Berry came under fire for her comments, with one saying: ‘ How rude was Mary Berry about Nathan Outlaw’s size when he said he surfed!’
Another wrote: ‘ Wow Mary. I don’t care how long you’ve been on TV or been cooking. You’re old enough to know that you’re so rude. Nathan very kindly let her off that caustic comment.’
Further controversy arose when Miss Berry put her own twist on a Spanish tortilla by adding peppers and fresh parsley to the traditional recipe.
In the first episode of the series, the happily married cook had caused a stir when ‘flirting’ with Swedish chef Niklas Ekstedt, who is less than half her age. As she watched Ekstedt building a fire, she told him: ‘It’s a long time since I’ve had a man on his knees in front of me.’
Later she was seen whipping Ekstedt with branches to simulate what happens in Swedish saunas. As they walked through a wood, he was seen breaking a branch off a tree and explaining: ‘These leaves, this is what we use in the sauna to whip each other’, to which she replied: ‘ Oh, that sounds exciting. How do you do it then?’
After whipping him twice, she quipped: ‘And you’re in together? Oh, it is quite good fun. I think I’m coming to Sweden.’