Sunday People

BULLYING DRAMA WILL STICK WITH YOU

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Prince William was making cups of tea. And his wife was icing cupcakes.

Mary Berry innocently handed Kate a piping bag and asked if she wanted to “have a squirt on a cake”.

Millions of viewers choked in shock.

But what could be more stereotypi­cally English than a show with a doyenne of baking, the royal family, filthy innuendo and china tea cups?

What an absolute treat.

The show saw Mary invited to visit the charities which the Duke and Duchess support. But the royal couple also got involved in some baking.

It was a bit of a mutual love-in between Kate and Mary at first as they both, each with fabulous hair and outfits, wandered through the gardens of RHS Wisley. “We

in VIEWERS blasted the workplace bullying ITV drama Sticks And Stones as “uncomforta­ble” and “painful”.

Doctor Foster writer Mike Bartlett’s thriller told of Thomas Benson, played by Ken Nwosu, whose life fell apart after colleagues tormented him. It was very hard to watch, from the sidelong glances and

And Kate makes her kids’ birthday cakes. Of COURSE she does. Perfect mum doesn’t dash out and buy a £5 Colin The Caterpilla­r cake from M&S at the last minute (other brands of shop-bought cakes are available).

And what will Wills and Kate be doing with their kids over the holidays? Making mince pies together. A vision of perfect family loveliness. And I don’t even hate them. At one point, at a homelessne­ss sniggering, to the pranks and outright sabotage, until Thomas was declared mentally unwell. “It’s them,” he pleaded. “It’s what they do to me.” The

of comeuppanc­e after his recording main offender Isobel, played by

And Susannah Fielding, came too late. a final scene showing Thomas’s ambitions to be a millionair­e grated. But it was a gripping take on

sinister bullying.

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