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The Great British Sewing Bee’s Patrick Grant: Most ‘hellish’ six months of his life, dad’s death after routine operation, and younger partner

Patrick Grant returns to judge The Great British Sewing Bee on BBC after tricky few years - including 'hellish' six months, and dad's death.

As the series returns, 12 of the country’s best home sewers “create exquisite and imaginative garments” under the watchful eyes of judges Esme Young and Patrick Grant. Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, he said that the government at the time was “running this catastrophically shambolic programme to try and manage PPE supplies into the NHS”. In April 2021, after filming series 7 of The Great British Sewing Bee, Patrick told his Twitter followers that he’d had a “hellish six months”.

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