Bath-born Great British Bake Off presenter Mary Berry has confessed to smacking her children with wooden butter pat.
The 78-year-old onetime Bath High School pupil has told Piers Morgan that she used the kitchen utensil if her offspring Thomas, Annabel and William were naughty.
In an interview for Morgan's series Life Stories, Mrs Berry said: "We had corporal punishment in our house. I don't think it hurts them too much, a quick slap on the legs. They would run very fast."
During the interview, which airs later this month on ITV, Mrs Berry, who is to be given the freedom of Bath after switching on the city's Christmas lights last month, said she likes to have a spray tan and owns a onesie which has stars on it.
