The nation’s favourite show is FINALLY back after a long year’s wait, with a record-breaking 11.2 million people tuning in to watch The Great British Bake Off’s twelve new contestants bake their hearts out to impress Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood.
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Speaking to The Sun newspaper, she said: “They [the producers] said there would be quite a lot of bread-making, which I am not so good at, so I said I would need another judge to do the job properly”.
The Great British Bake Off (GBBO) is back for Series 7 much to the delight of viewers across the country.
“And what I am planning to do this Sunday, is take to church what I did bake the first week in the tent”. Or maybe they’ll still be watching Bake Off in the year 2050 because after seven series, it shows no signs of going stale.
The competition started this week with cakes and the group first took on a British classic: The drizzle cake.
She said: “The four of us, Mel, Sue, Paul and me, are a team”.
“Bake Off’s format is a well-oiled (well-buttered?) machine and it would be foolish to change a winning recipe”.
“While it remains every inch the cosy affair you remember from past seasons, it sometimes has the feel of a wildly popular spectator sport desperately clinging to amateur status”, he said. No amount of bunting can disguise the pressure-cooker atmosphere.
Berry, who has published more than 75 cookery books including Baking Bible, bought the property with her husband Paul Hunnings in 1970 and lived there with her children until 1988.
She said: “I quarrel with my family more than anybody but we never expect apologies”.
A glimpse of what might await this week’s star baker immediately followed: Chronicles of Nadiya (BBC1) is a two-part travelogue presented by last year’s GBBO victor, Nadiya Hussain, taking her back to her roots.
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Nadiya has made a number of appearances on Loose Women, is a columnist for The Times and Essentials magazine, has filmed a TV series tracing her roots in Bangladesh, and appeared on BBC Radio 4′s Desert Island Discs.
