A NEW BEE BEGINS
SARA PASCOE
Sara is a comedian, actress, author and panel show host. This is her first year hosting The Great British Sewing Bee after appearing in the Christmas celebrity special in 2020.
Did taking part in the celebrity Sewing Bee in 2020 help you as the new host?
Well, actually, what it did was undermine me terribly. They’d all seen me making terrible Christmas things the year before, so there was no me coming in saying: ‘Did you not think about using French seams?’ They were like: ‘Don’t pretend you know about sewing...’.
As you struggled to make festive pyjamas on Sewing Bee, did you think: ‘Oh, I’d like to host this show…’
Do you know what? I stupidly looked at Joe coming in and out and thought: ‘It’s brilliant. He only works for about 10 minutes a day...’. So, when I agreed to the job, I’d envisioned myself on a sofa laid out eating snacks. Obviously, there’s a lot more going on, I had to re-evaluate how hard Joe was working.
And it’s easier to
