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Mary Berry looked incredible as she posed for a new photoshoot to celebrate her 90th birthday on March 24.
The Great British Bake Off star is going all-out for her milestone birthday, admitting she is planning to have a whole year of boozy parties with family and friends.
Speaking about her birthday to British Vogue, Mary simply said: ‘There will be cake, and champagne. I’m all for parties.’
The chef also admitted she is no fan of gyms and instead takes after her mother who preferred walking for exercise and also enjoys tennis.
Speaking of her mother Margaret, she said: ‘She didn’t go to gyms and I couldn’t agree with her more.’
As her career was taking off in the sixties and seventies, Mary and her husband Paul Hunnings had three children; Thomas, William and Annabel.
Mary Berry looked incredible as she posed for a new photoshoot to celebrate her 90th birthday
The Great British Bake Off star is going all-out for her milestone birthday, admitting she is planning to have a whole year of parties with family and friends
William tragically died in a car accident in 1989 when he was 19. Annabel was in the car also but survived.
Mary insisted she doesn’t mind speaking about William or the tragedy of the accident, saying: ‘It’s absolutely amazing in my 90th year to think that William died all that time ago.
‘If he walked in that door over there, I would say: ‘Where have you been?’ It wouldn’t surprise me at all.’
Mary added that she and Paul were ‘lucky to have him’ and they got to be a ‘family unit’ right up until ‘those few hours’ before he died.
Mary also discussed her marriage, saying ‘respect’ is the most important thing in a longterm relationship.
She also joked the couple – who married in 1966 – don’t count the decades too closely and make sure to never raise their voices at each other.
Dame Mary previousy suffered a health scare when she was picking sweet peas in her garden in August 2021 and tripped.
She had to wait three and a half hours for an ambulance to arrive and had surgery for a broken hip at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading.
The chef also admitted she is no fan of gyms and instead takes after her mother who preferred walking for exercise and also enjoys tennis
Mary and her husband Paul Hunnings had three children; Thomas, William and Annabel. William tragically died in a car accident in 1989 when he was 19
Mary was interviewed in the latest issue of British Vogue
She said the following year: ‘My GP told me, ‘You’ve two options. You could sit in a chair and do no exercise and quite probably be dead in four years, or you can set to, walk (uphill too!) and do everything you can, and it’ll take 18 months for a full recovery’.
And gosh, she was right. I’ve exercised and had lots of physio and it’s not quite normal yet, but it will be.’
Dame Mary also recently revealed that she plays tennis every week – as long as it’s sunny.
As her former Great British Bake Off co-presenter Mel Giedroyc once said: ‘She’s not a sweet old lady – she’s tough as old boots.’
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