The couple also have a son, Joe, 18 and 17-year-old daughter Maddy. The earliest thing I can ever remember eating is my grandma’s shepherds pie.”Įd says he’s been the only cook in his house ever since the birth of their first child, Ellie, now 22. “If they criticised my shepherd’s pie that would have been 50 years of my life being challenged. He’s been able to see her on FaceTime, but it’s not the same as being together and being able to touch, and to sing, and to do the things that really make a difference.Įd Balls with his mum Carolyn (Image: PR HANDOUT vIa plankpr) “It’s been especially hard on my dad, who is on his own in their house.
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We haven’t been able to see her for ten months now. In last night’s final he triumphed against actor Tom Read Wilson and Boris Johnson ’s sister, journalist Rachel, and Ed admits his thoughts were on his mum at the end: “In the final I got quite emotional because everything I was cooking were dishes I learned from her.”Ĭarolyn hasn’t been able to see her husband, children or grandchildren since the start of the pandemic and Ed, who served as education secretary under Gordon Brown’s government, says: “Before the pandemic, she used to come home in a taxi with her carer and I would cook all her favourite foods, lasagne, roast beef and Yorkshire puddings. “It has always been in my mind, that I know she is watching and I hope she will be able to recognise me and maybe recognise what I’m doing, and deep inside she might feel pleased that I’m doing all the things that she taught me.”
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