Bake Off winner Nancy: Say yes to everything, David Oldest star’s recipe on how your star can rise after show
Nancy’s angel cake creation
With Queer Eye’s Jonathan
Nancy with Mary and Paul
New champ David
her recipes and advice into a book – Sizzle and Drizzle: Tips for a Modern Day Homemaker, which came out on October 25. Gigi Hadid, 24, was one of the first to request a copy and Queer Eye’s Jonathan Van Ness, who wrote the foreword, has already bagged eight copies to give as Christmas presents. Nancy said: “Gigi watches my videos, she comments on them and has told me she likes to bake.
Once, I posted a video of me doing my make-up, because Jonathan encouraged me, and Gigi watched it to the end. I couldn’t believe it.
“Here’s this beautiful young girl, whose whole life is about beauty and make up, and she’s watching daft old me putting on my Rimmel mascara. It’s bonkers.
“The friends I made, the people I met and things I’ve done wouldn’t have happened without Bake Off.”
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QAQAStylish plaque is from the late 1800s I have a small brass double-sided plaque, 50mm x 65mm, stamped F VERNON. I wonder if you could tell me more about this? Alan Bridger, via email This lovely antique medal/sculpture from the late 1800s is almost Art Nouveau in style. The period and style had been full of gothic-influenced organic swirls, dreamy female figures and romanticism. Many items were made with an organic, Celtic or classical theme. Your photos show a pastoral scene on one side and a woman playing a harp on the reverse. Not wishing to harp on, it is the work of Frederic Charles Victor de Vernon, one of France’s top engravers. It is worth between €300 and €400. Can you give me a value for this glass – a christening gift to my uncle. I think it is by Sowerby, dated 1888. There is a fine hairline crack on the base. Hazel Robertson, via email John George Sowerby was a well-known glassmaker in Gatesehead, Tyneside. The firm operated for 165 years and produced pressed glass wares until 1972. The Art Deco pieces are quite pretty and most fetch more than €100. I have seen identical glassware to yours, from 1887 commemorating an exhibition. It isn’t particularly unusual, from what I can see, and is probably worth just €20 or so. Sorry to end on a Sower note.
QSowerby glass