Dame Mary Berry has been honoured with a Bafta fellowship, using the occasion to laud the BBC as "the broadcaster we must cherish". The former Great British Bake Off judge received the British Academy’s highest accolade for her exceptional contribution to television. Accepting the award from former Bake Off presenters Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins at the Royal Festival Hall, the beloved 91-year-old television cook, described the BBC as her "home of many years". The Somerset-born chef light-heartedly quipped that Giedroyc and Perkins had "led me astray from day one". Dame Mary said: “I’m really bowled over by this accolade. I’m a cook, I’m a teacher, so I feel very honoured to be given Bafta ’s highest award. “It seems no time ago when I left Bath High School with two O-levels in needlework and cookery. “Ms Date, my domestic science teacher – who was just knee-high to a grasshopper and had such a lovely smile – she set me on my way. I kept in touch with her till her last days in her care home in Bath.…