You know, sometimes the kids are all right.
A pair of twins from Dallas are currently starring in the Food Network show Baking Championship: Next Gen, which pits pairs of siblings across the country in a baking competition against each other.
Identical twins and 8th grade students Olivia and Norah Tatum are competing in the show, which premiere last Monday January 5.
Olivia told the Dallas Morning News, “Being on TV is like a dream come true. We always watch baking shows and think it would be fun to be there.”
There are 12 teams of siblings, ranging in ages from 8 to 14, competing to win a $25,000 prize.
Olivia and Norah are in 8th grade at Dallas’ Sudie L. Williams TAG Academy, and their friends and teachers are tuning into the program for support.
Their father Derek Tatum told the DMN, “We never expected something like this to happen to them, to be on TV. It has been very exciting, and I’m very proud of them.”
It was their mother, though that the twins learned their passion for cooking.
Stacie Tatum said, “Before I had children, one of my big dreams was to bake cookies with them, so we started when they were about 3 years old, maybe younger.
“We’ve been making cookies and things like that forever, and it just evolved from there.”
You can watch Baking Championship: Next Gen on the Food Network every Monday at 7 p.m. Central.
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