My great fear is that Kirstie Allsopp will turn out to be one of those smug celebrity mothers – the sort who manages a pilates session and a spot of puréeing parsnips before heading off to work via the (private) school run.
She is, after all, one of the highest-paid women in television, a woman who runs her own production company while being a mother to two young sons and stepmum to two more – and yet she is giving this interview to promote her new TV show, which has her espousing the virtues of home baking and needlework, and the accompanying book, which is being serialised over two weeks in Weekend.
I watch a preview of Kirstie’s Handmade Britain before meeting her, only to learn that the woman who was once asked to join David Cameron’s Government as an adviser spent seven weeks appliquéing foxes on a cushion to enter in a country fair – and truly believes that we can all do the same. Initial impressions aren’t good. Ten minutes into our interview she is brandishing, on her phone, a picture of neatly folded laundry.
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