The Great British Bake Off 2015 contestants: Who will Mary Berry & Paul

Hey, maybe I should be on this show. Thankfully, once we got inside the tent things settled down and Mel and Sue’s comforting tones swept around me like a warm scarf.

Some ten million tuned into the BBC One programme on Wednesday to watch the first episode of the 2015 series. He scared the living daylights out of all of us and his manner was totally at odds with his name. Same with Ed [Kimber], Joanne Wheatley’s set up a baking school, I need to catch up with Frances, and Nancy, she’s exactly the same and doing a lot of work for charity now baking with kids.

As my housemaster, he was the person who moved me up a band. An old head on young shoulders, Flora’s an assistant at a contemporary art gallery while she waits to start her history of art degree. For Mr Byrne it was all about interpretation and his encouragement made me stick with it. He was pleased when I said I was going to art school. It was original without going off the scale and her cake looked lovely.

Any early bets on who the #GBBO victor might be????

The dreaded technical challenge was up next with the majority of the contestants seemingly not heeding Mary’s words of warning to read through her recipe twice before starting. Seven years ago, he questioned why he was buying bread and cakes when he had an oven.

Baking for charity is most popular among 25 to 34 year olds with 13% of them having baked for a good cause in the past 12 months. There seemed to be a problem amongst some of the bakers when it came to preparing the caramel for their walnuts that would top the cake. Meanwhile Nadiya also struggled with the challenge and didn’t fully ice her cake like the rest of her colleagues did. And then there’s the icing – a brand new kind of special impossible marshmallow meringue, dreamed up by Mary and sponsored by Polyfilla.

“I felt disappointed in myself initially as I felt I didn’t perform as well as I could, but it’s onwards and upwards!” And who will suffer the horrifying soggy bottom?

The retro classic Black Forrest Gateau was chosen in the final showstopper challenge and Alvin remained calm and collected. She also knew how to temper chocolate and produced an unbelievable Black Forest gateau. The first edition sees Paul unearthing people who claim sickness benefits while being perfectly fit for work, and discovers the lengths they will go to con doctors into believing they really do have something wrong with them.

But Sue’s right in the end – there’s not use crying over spilt mousse, and Dorret lives to whisk another day! In fact, the cake is excellent, though not a meat pie, which is disappointing. She had said she wants to “have her own adventure” and make her family proud – so could she surprise Mary and Paul with some exotic ingredients from her homeland?

The first to leave was Stu, a musician from London.

According to Mary, Stu, a graduate from the Academy of Contemporary Music in Guildford, tried to be “too clever”. More of a mudslide, as Paul says, than a forest.

“The results so far have been very encouraging, to see the sense of wellbeing it gives them”.

‘Many of the bets were placed in shops around Ipswich, although the contestant is not known to have links to the town’.