[1][2][3] She grew up in Newcastle and studied English at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
Potts found that cooking, especially baking, helped her to cope with her loss, and took this further by enrolling for a nine-month pâtisserie diploma course at Le Cordon Bleu in London.
She wrote about this part of her life in a memoir, A Half Baked Idea, which was published in 2020,[6][7] and won the Debut Book section of the Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards.
[11] She writes on food for publications including The Spectator[12] and North-West England website Confidentials.com.
Potts lives with her husband and child in the west of Greater Manchester.