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knew panto paid so well? Britain’s favourite dame, Christopher Biggins, is in Celebrity MasterChef’s Christmas special but it could cost him a fortune. For when the actor and his civil partner, retired BA steward Neil Sinclair, give dinner parties for chums such as Dame Joan Collins, he throws a £1,000 bottle of wine into his go-to dish, winter stew. His recipe: ‘Beef, carrots, onions, bay leaves and tomato paste and a bottle of Chateau Margaux 2000.’ If a £1,000 bottle goes in the stew, how much does he spend on wine to drink with it?