Spending lockdown with her son Damien Hurley, 19, has meant she’s had to up her game and has had to ‘feed everyone properly.’.
Liz added that she would happily maintain a simple diet of bananas and Ryvita.
Liz has spent the coronavirus lockdowns with her son mother Angela, 80, and elder sister Kate, at their lavish £6 million mansion, and previously compared the experience to an episode of The Waltons.
The actress spent 16 weeks holed up at the Herefordshire estate in a group of nine, including her elder sister Kate, son Damian, mother Angela and vulnerable friends.
Appearing on Lorraine in October, Liz told stand-in host Christine Lampard at the time: ‘It was like The Waltons!
Much-loved family drama The Waltons ran from 1971 to 1981 and revolved around the tight-knit clan’s lives on a Virginia mountain during the Depression and the Second World War. The show was such an example for American family life at the time, that President George Bush once even said in a speech in 1992 that he wished to make families in the United States ‘more like the Waltons and less like the Simpsons’.
Elizabeth revealed that her household took things back to basics for lockdown, much like The Waltons, explaining: ‘The authors all stayed safe and the authors had to just get on, find a way to make it work.
‘There was manual labour, not allowed TV until 6PM.
The authors ate quite a lot but there was the manual labour!’
Liz added: ‘The authors were very nervous about health, there were elderly women and a friend with low