People don't always behave the same way on different programmes. If you go to church you don't behave the same way you do at a party in the middle of the night.

I think Paul Hollywood was quite perfectly within his rights to stay with Love Productions. They'd made him famous, he was getting a decent salary and he was enjoying it. Why shouldn't he stay with them?

I probably eat yogurt more than anything else.

It was hugely helpful to me, being South African. I have never felt uncomfortable in posh society because I don't see what it is that I'm meant to be bowing the knee about.

I think the BBC likes to have Mary Berry and me around to rebut the charge of ageism.

Bake Off' has been a renaissance for me. I turn up, taste something and get paid rather well. What could be nicer?

I don't like Johannesburg, where I grew up. Everybody lives in 'gated' buildings, is paranoid about crime and is always talking about being mugged. It's not a very joyful place.

Nothing beats that sloppy kiss of a six-month-old grandchild.

Wherever possible, I like to use home-grown or locally produced ingredients.

I'm immensely proud to have been made a CBE, but I don't ever use the letters after my name unless someone has included them in correspondence.

A lot of other reality shows on television can be bullying and aggressive, but we wanted 'The Bake Off' to be an antidote to that.

It is something you can't predict, and it is the huge sadness in your life, losing a child.

I can't pass a plant stall without feeling I must have one. But my greatest extravagance, I suppose, is roses. We've got masses.

To be able to walk out the door when you come home from a job and wander into the garden to do a bit of watering gives you time to be creative in your mind.

Many people think children must have chips. I don't think any household should have a deep fat fryer.

I eat carefully because people don't want to see a large person judging cakes. They'll think to themselves, 'That's what happens when you eat cake.'

When I thought I couldn't write recipes, my boss at the time advised, 'Write as you talk.'

My husband is not in the slightest bit domesticated, but as the years go, by he's getting better. He can make an excellent omelette.

It helps to have a happy home life to keep up alongside your career.

I don't go to fancy Michelin-starred restaurants often.

Dad thought something very fishy was going on when, at 22, I was offered a job for £1,000 a year - more than Dad paid his own staff - for inventing cheese recipes and writing leaflets at the Dutch Dairy Bureau in London.

As parents are usually working, they haven't time to teach children about cooking, and it's a wilderness. They should be given healthy recipes - some standbys so that when they leave home, they don't live on junk.

I won't do 'Strictly' or any of those ghastly reality programmes. 'I'm a Celebrity' would be the end. It makes me shudder.

Lots of people have written to say 'Bake Off' has inspired them to bake with their children. I feel proud about that; it's exactly what I used to do with mine.