Sarah Beeny resorted to burying a cottage pie in her garden
Quite the kitchen disaster.
Sarah Beeny actually buried a cottage pie in her garden.
The 53-year-old broadcaster revealed one of her ‘millions’ of kitchen disasters has haunted her, after a failed attempt at the meat and potato dish.
Ahead of taking part in Channel 4’s The Great Celebrity Bake Off For Stand Up To Cancer, Sarah recalled the wild incident and explained she had no choice but to bury it in the garden.
She is quoted by New magazine as saying: ‘I once cooked a cottage pie and didn’t have enough space to keep it in the fridge, and it went off, and it smelled so bad I had to dig a hole in the garden to bury it.’
Sarah – who was given the all-clear from breast cancer in 2023 after being diagnosed with the disease the previous year – has admitted that she is not a baker and is not a lover of cake either.
Despite this, the star is one of 19 bakers taking part to raise money for the joint national fundraising campaign between Channel 4 and Cancer Research UK.
Sarah, who was given the all-clear from breast cancer in 2023, is taking part in Channel 4’s The Great Celebrity Bake Off For Stand Up To Cancer (Picture: ITV)She added: ‘I’ve never really baked. I think I’m a bit too impatient.’
‘I don’t actually like cake much,’ mum-of-four Sarah continued.
‘Can I say that? They’re really low on my priority list.
‘I guess you’re a pudding or a cheese person, and I’m a cheese person.
This year’s cast of celebrity bakers includes Kate Garraway and Roman Kemp (Picture: Mark Bourdillon)‘Starter or pudding? Starter. Give me smoked salmon rather than dessert. That’s got bang for bucks!’
Sarah will be joined in the tent by the likes of Good Morning Britain presenter Kate Garraway, comedian Adam Buxton and Chicken Shop Date’s Amelia Dimoldenberg as the celebrities look to impress judges Paul Hollywood and Caroline Waldegrave, who is replacing Dame Prue Leith for the series.
Like the property expert, Kate, 57, admitted to her fair share of kitchen horrors.
She said: ‘A few years back, I was cooking for my entire family for Christmas Day, and it was the first time I’d done Christmas lunch for the family.
Kate Garraway revealed she’s suffered her fair share of kitchen nightmares (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)‘I put the turkey in, and after a while, I thought, “I really can’t smell much”.
‘The oven had broken.
‘So I had to go next door and beg the neighbours to use theirs but, of course, they had their turkey in the oven.
‘So, it ended up being a Christmas lunch at supper time, and for lunch, we had cheese and biscuits.
‘By the time we ate, they were hungry and slightly drunk, which, arguably, is the best state to be in if you are eating a meal I’ve cooked.’
The Great Celebrity Bake Off For Stand Up To Cancer begins on Sunday, March 16, at 7.40pm on Channel 4.
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