Lorraine Pascale is a British television cook and USA Food Network host and former top model, best known for selling almost one million books in the UK alone. Her TV shows are in 70 countries worldwide.
She had her own cooking show on the BBC for several seasons. From 2007-2012 she owned a retail outlet in London selling baked goods called Ella’s Bakehouse named after her daughter.
Pascale has opened her own cupcake shop in Covent Garden. She also studied Culinary Arts at Thames Valley University (now the University of West London) and in March 2012 graduated with a first-class degree.
In 2015, Pascale said she practises Transcendental Meditation to relax after work. Lorraine is also a judge on Food Network’s Holiday Baking Championship and Spring Baking Championship as well as a mentor on Worst Bakers in America.
Lorraine Pascale Parents: Meet Audrey Woodward and Roger Woodward
Pascale was born to Caribbean parents in Hackney at The Mothers’ Hospital and was fostered in Leytonstone immediately after she was born.
She was adopted at 18 months old and brought up in Witney, Oxfordshire by a white couple, Roger and Audrey Woodward, who already had a son, Jason.
Her adoptive father was a multilingual Spanish academic who had taught at Oxford, and her mother was a nurse. When her parents divorced when she was three years old, Pascale remained with her mother, who subsequently became ill and could no longer care for her.
At this point, at age seven, she was fostered into more than one family, with differing degrees of ‘fit’. After a year she returned to her mother and met up again with her father, who had remarried and had a daughter.
Pascale has an elder brother and a younger half-sister. She knows her biological parents’ identity and their four other children, but she does not wish to re-establish contact: “I know my birth parents’ names.
I know I’ve got three brothers and one sister, I know that some of them are in London but I don’t have any desire or need to find them. One family is enough.”