Harry Potter fans were given the best gift this holiday season: The Wizards of Baking, a new Food Network competition series starring the beloved Weasley Twins, James and Oliver Phelps. And we at Delish are particularly delighted to learn that the brothers were food-obsessed long before their new show aired.

While playing a game of Never Have I Ever in Delish’s latest episode of “Suck It Up,” James Phelps (a.k.a. Fred Weasley) admitted to swiping candy from their on-screen joke shop, Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes.

“My tongue is currently burning,” he says, before divulging which item he brought home from set. “The only thing in my house from the ‘Potter’ series is a nosebleed nougat sweet.” In the film, the magical candy was made by the twins to make your nose bleed within seconds of eating it. However, there was a purple sweet that could stop the reaction.

He wasn’t the only one, though. His brother stole permanently “borrowed” his own prop. “The one thing that I st- … borrowed, I remember fondly,” Oliver says. “I have Georgie’s missing ear. Cause in the last two films, I wore a prosthetic every morning, and that is in a frame at home on my wall.” He added that contractors always give it a second (and possibly concerning) glance when at his house for work.

Their troublemaking didn’t end there, though. They also toyed with their co-stars—in true Weasley twin fashion. “One [prank] that we did that we can say without getting too many people in lawsuits…” Oliver starts.

“Every trailer has the same model of TV. Every remote also works for every TV,” James chimes in. “We were in Robert Grint’s Trailer, and we made him believe he could control the TV with his body actions, so if he stood up and got close to the TV, the volume would go up. And you could see him, ‘I think it’s me, I think it’s me.'”

“And then you run very, very quickly,” Oliver concluded.

Your move, Rupert…


Wizards of Baking is available to stream on Discovery+ and Max.

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Megan Schaltegger is an NYC-based writer. She loves strong coffee, eating her way through the Manhattan food scene, and her dog, Murray. She promises not to talk about herself in third person IRL.


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