The contestant believes that baking is in her blood and cites her Lancastrian great-grandmother, who was a fervent cake-baker, as the ancestor who gave her the culinary gene. When she’s not baking or busy with her job producing pantomime, Lottie will be playing computer games with her young cousins, or practising yoga. Age: 31 Lottie’s Lancastrian great-grandmother was a fervent cake-baker and for this reason Lottie believes that baking is in her blood.