British celebrities rummage for collectables and antiques in their homes to be valued and sold at auction, the intention being to raise money for donation to their favourite charities.

Dame Mary Rosa Alleyne Hunnings DBE, known professionally as Mary Berry, is an English food writer, chef, baker, and television presenter. Born in Bath, Somerset, Berry trained at Le Cordon Bleu culinary school in Paris and Bath School of Home Economics. In the swinging 60s she became the cookery editor of Housewife magazine, followed by Ideal Home magazine.

She has published over 75 cookery books, including her best-selling Baking Bible in 2009. Her first book was The Hamlyn All Colour Cookbook in 1970. She has hosted several television cooking series for the BBC and Thames Television, and was an occasional contributor to Woman's Hour and Saturday Kitchen. Mary, Queen of Cakes, was also judge on the BBC’s TV programme The Great British Bake Off from its launch in 2010 until 2016.

In 2020, Berry was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

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