Matt Lucas: 'If Bake Off ask me back I can relax a bit more, be a little calmer'
Matt Lucas speaks exclusively to the Telegraph Magazine Credit: Kate Peters In a lofty studio in east London, the photographer has paused her shoot while Matt Lucas, dressed as a top-hatted showman, gives me his recipe for chicken soup. ‘Being a Jewish boy, I am proud of my process in making it,’ says the 46-year-old Little Britain star turned Great British Bake Off host, describing a detailed method involving a 32-litre pan, ‘soup socks’ to hold copious amounts of veg and 48 hours of simmering. ‘The other day I batch-cooked about 25 portions,’ he says. ‘I’ve got more experi...