She has never had any trouble getting her sponges to rise – and it seems Mary Berry is just as adept at expanding her bank balance.
As the BBC’s Great British Bake Off returns to our screens for its fifth series tonight, the queen of cakes has whipped up an impressive business empire thought to be worth as much as £5million.
The 79-year-old’s popularity with viewers is paying dividends, and over the past year she has signed lucrative deals to produce kitchenware, published a string of bestselling books, seen sales of her range of sauces and chutneys soar and been paid to appear at food shows around the country.
Recipe for success: Great British Bake Off star Mary Berry has whipped up an impressive business empire thought to be worth as much as £5million
And all of this is on top of her estimated £200,000 annual salary for appearing on Bake Off, as well as a further sum for presenting her solo show Mary Berry Cooks on BBC2.
Miss Berry, who lives with her husband in a £2million house in Buckinghamshire, has now set up a network of companies to manage the spoils of her growing TV fame.
Two of them – Mary Berry Ltd and Mary Berry Merchandising Ltd – were set up in the past eight months and have yet to file accounts. A third, Mary Berry and Daughter, is run with her daughter Annabel Bosher, 42, and made £1.2million last year.
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