Mary Berry used to be "pretty wild".
The 84-year-old chef has admitted she spent most of her schooldays "mucking about" and not being "very nice" to her teachers.
She said: "I was mucking about most of the time. I was pretty wild. I shouldn’t think I was very nice to the teachers."
As a result of her bad behaviour, the headteacher at the former ‘Great British Bake Off’ star’s school, Miss Blackburn, questioned whether she had any prospects for the future, but her dad came up with a prospective career path for her.
Appearing on Fearne Cotton’s ‘Happy Place’ podcast, she said: "Frequently I would be called in [to the head’s office] because I’d done something . . . I would be ticked off. I didn’t even think what I was going to do.
"But my parents went to see Miss Blackburn and she said, ‘Oh dear, what are we going to do? What could she do? She could be a children’s nurse, perhaps?’ And my father said, ‘Well, I pity the child’. And then he said, ‘Well, she seems to enjoy cooking’."
While Mary may not have been nice in her younger years, she showed her kind side when she left ‘GBBO’ after it moved to Channel 4 in 2017 but took the time to support her replacement, Prue Leith.
Prue recently said: "We’ve known each other for 40 or 50 years. She’s a great friend. She called me to tell me she was glad I was doing the show and that I’d done a great job, which was lovely of her."
Mary Berry was ‘wild’
