Bangladesh-origin Nadia Hossain wins the Great British Bake Off

So you can’t blame them for being a little melodramatic. “I might need therapy to fix myself now because it has been months of just lying and training my poker face and making sure I don’t give it away because it’s such a big secret to keep”.

“The jam is quite sharp and you put the right amount in.”

She started crying as soon as her name was announced and took minutes to get on the stage and make her speech.

The BBC One show, won by Nadiya Jamir Hussain, was seen by an average of 13.4 million viewers, according to overnight ratings figures.

Did you find yourself getting tearful over Nadiya’s Bake Off win?

‘I don’t even drink but I feel trollied!’ she joked.

But Ian had trouble when he forgot to add sugar to his spiced buns for the signature bake and Tamal faced problems with the setting of his creme patissiere. Luckily, it wasn’t too late for a quick fix.

And Tamal Ray struggled when the creme patissiere for his toffee and marmalade iced buns failed to set in time. After lots of anxious checks on his creme pat in the freezer and rising panic, he cut his losses.

But they won high praise from the judges.

As well as Mary Berry being one of the nicest people on telly that we just want to have as our grandma, we’re also a bit scared about how they’d react to being called such things. The show owes its success, in part, to Mary and Paul.

Moving onto the Technical Challenge, all three finalists are absolutely dreading how to produce this delicate and hard recipe by Judge Paul. And we’ve got the three best bakers out of that group in the final.

“Oh, god, yeah!” said Ian, having flashbacks to cream horns and vol-au-vents.

She said: “The showstopper was a celebration cake – and as I never had my own wedding cake I wanted a proper iced wedding cake”.

“Nadiya is the first British woman who wears a hijab to have occupied such a positive, joyous role in British mass culture”, Charlotte Higgins, chief culture writer for The Guardian daily, wrote ahead of the final.

Nadiya got a hug from Paul Hollywood… FIVE. His wife admits he’s been a man possessed since the beginning of Bake Off, but also says he’s the family’s rock.

The bakers will be very exhausted by this time.

Tamal was a big Bake Off fan before he applied.

The 20-year-old King’s College student, from Willesden Green, said: “I literally ran to the Tube station, I must be insane or something”. We are looking into it further.

“I wrapped it in many layers of brown paper, put it in a suitcase and hid it under the bed in case anybody saw it”, she said.

“He’s a rock in our family”.