Claudia Winkleman and Mary Berry join forces on new cooking show

Mary Berry has revealed the opportunity to work with Claudia Winkleman convinced her to take part in new cooking series Britain’s Best Home Cook.

The former Great British Bake Off judge will return to BBC One to officiate over an eight-week competition where ten amateur chefs pit their family recipes against each other in an attempt to win the accolade of Britain’s Best Home Cook.

It is the first programme that the 83-year-old has appeared in as a judge since Bake Off moved to Channel 4. 0 Mary Berry will join Claudia Winkleman on new BBC show

Speaking alongside Winkleman during an interview with Emma Freud for the Radio Times, Berry revealed her co-star settled any nerves she had about doing the show. She said: “I love judging because by now I know what I’m about – but I really wanted to do it well.

“I asked myself if I was doing the right thing and I realised this person on my left [nodding to Claudia] would be roaring with laughter and making it all very relaxed. The bonus point for me was having her.”

Winkleman, the highestpaid female BBC presenter, said working with Berry was a main reason she accepted the offer to be on the programme.

She said: “They had me at Mary. I didn’t know what the show was, and it didn’t matter.

“I mean, it could have been a programme about ponies and I would have been like, ‘With Mary? Actual Mary? I’m in’.”