Comedians cook up plan to gatecrash Berry shows
GREAT British Bake Off presenter Sue Perkins has said she and Mel Giedroyc have hatched a plan to appear in every one of Mary Berry’s TV shows.
The trio decided not to follow the baking show when it moves to Channel 4 next year, leaving Berry’s fellow judge Paul Hollywood to continue with a new team.
While Perkins said they have not yet found a new project to work on together, she and Giedroyc will be gatecrashing all of Berry’s new endeavours.
She said: “We have now informed Mary that, whatever she does, we will be appearing in it whether she likes it or not. So she might be doing a programme about country houses, Mel and I are just going to stand in the background or we might be having a pretend row in a corner and she’s up for that.
“We might never find the thing we do together on television but if we do it’s going to take some time and in the meantime there is a slight sneaking plot to upstage and get in on Mary’s act.
“So whether she’s doing a cooking show or a gardening show I wouldn’t rule out that viewer will see Mel and I in some incarnation, even if it’s just in boiler suits punching the living daylights out of each other in the background.”
Perkins will be bringing the famous cheeky banter that earned her legions of fans on Bake Off to a navigation app that helps drivers avoid traffic by crowdsourcing route information.
She has recorded driving instructions for the free app Waze that reroutes motorists away from congestion and said: “They were really great and let me play so I got into the voiceover booth and sort of intermittently shouted and hollered and made double entendres and was silly.
“Conventional sat nav voices are very crisp and school marm-y, mine is a lot more conversational.”