Mary Berry once "carved" a horse and fed it to her friends.

Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc in heat magazine

Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc in heat magazine

The 'Great British Bake Off' judge is no stranger to experimenting with different meats but her co-star Sue Perkins wasn't expecting her to dish up a horse meat and margarine steak when they first met back in 2009.

She explained: "Mary made me a horse meat and margarine steak. It was literally a Shergar steak.

"It wasn't tenderised. It was a thick hip of a horse. She was out there carving it for what seemed like two days. It had a burned, gristly side and a bit of hair on it."

But Mary isn't the only one introducing new things, as Sue and her co-host Mel Giedroyc have also managed to get the 81-year-old baking legend into the talk programme 'The Jeremy Kyle Show' and she's obsessed with it.

Speaking to heat magazine, Mel explained: "We introduced Mary to Jeremy Kyle and she rather enjoyed it.

"Mary does loved Jezza Kyle now, I think she thinks Jeremy Kyle the show is a drama though, rather than real life."

Meanwhile, the tummy-gurgling show is set to return later this month for another mouth-watering series and the pair aren't worried about the competition they'll have from rival show 'The X Factor' because 'GBBO' is more genuine.

Sue explained: "I'm not knocking Simon Cowell, because he's a way more successful person that I'll ever be, but in those shows it's about people who want to be a star. People who want fame for its own sake. We've just got people who want to be good bakers."

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