Kate Winslet spotted in Cork as she enrols in cooking course with celebrity chef

The Titanic actress is understood to be in Ireland to take part in a course at the well-known Ballymaloe Cookery School.

The A-lister has been spotted in the nearby village of Ballycotton.

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She has also been seen in the company of celebrity chef Rachel Allen, who teaches at Ballymaloe, and her husband Isaac.

The Irish Examiner reports that the actress and a pal stayed at Ballymaloe House and nearby Ballyshane Coastal Retreats, a private 20-acre property with spectacular sea views.

The property, situated on the grounds of an 18th century farm, is just 15 minutes from Ballymaloe.

Rachel Allen has been running a two-and-a-half day cookery course in Ballymaloe this week called ‘Cooking for Family and Friends’.

The course – priced at €865 – was sold out.

The British actress, who also starred in Christmas rom-com The Holiday, is familiar with this country having previously discovered that she has Irish roots.

In an episode of BBC genealogy programme Who Do You Think You Are?, the Oscar winner found out she had a great, great, great grandmother called Eliza O'Brien, who hailed from Dublin, on her dad's side.

During filming of the show in 2019, she visited her father, Roger, in Reading, where she grew up to discuss his relatives.

"On my dad's side all I really ever knew is there was lots of pubs, lots of booze clearly, lots of actors. But much more than that I don't really know," she said

When she begins digging through the family records, she is astonished to find her Irish great, great, great grandmother, Eliza O'Brien, had 11 children.

"What?!!" she said.

"My great, great grandmother Marian Colquhoun was one of 11 children. Her parents were William Colquhoun and Eliza O'Brien."

Kate described her upbringing in Reading in England as working-class.

"My parents never had any money and it was always a real struggle but we were very, very happy. My dad who was an actor always had to get whatever odd job he could,” she said.