‘There's no front runner!'

Judges Patrick Grant and Esme Young on the 2021 Sewing Bee series finale…

- TESS LAMACRAFT

They are staples of Sewing Bee HQ, but judges Patrick Grant and Esme Young reckon they’ll have their work cut out deciding the winner of the 2021 series of the ever-popular BBC1 competition.

Here, the always-lovely Patrick, 49, and Esme, 72, tell TV Times what we can expect…

Do you think this will be one of the most closely contested finals fans have seen?

ESME It’s a really exciting final but very difficult to compare to previous years, as they are such different sewers. Of course, this year they had to deal with the pandemic, and it was fabulous how they coped with everything. It’s always a surprise who ends up in the final; we never can tell from the outset. Sewers develop and improve throughout the series and learn from each other.

PATRICK This series has been very unpredictable. There has been no obvious front-runner! As viewers have seen, we had some really great people who had bad weeks and went out earlier than expected. It only takes one bad challenge and the whole thing falls down!