Baz Ashmawy: Putting a mother’s love to the test

When Baz Ashmawy needed a sidekick for his new adventure show, he recruited his mum, who is 71, says Ed Power

BAZ Ashmawy worried that he had gone too far. “My mother and I were about to jump out of a plane. Suddenly, I was having all the thoughts I hated having — ‘was she too old? Could she do it?’ I hate judging people for their age. And I was guilty of exactly that,” TV presenter Ashmawy says.

It was the first day of shooting on Ashmawy’s new Sky 1 television show, 50 Ways To Kill Your Mammy.