Bake Off Betting Suspended

Thankfully, once we got inside the tent things settled down and Mel and Sue’s comforting tones swept around me like a warm scarf. “I just hope I don’t disappoint people in my life, but it’s onwards and upwards”.

He said: “It will be weird if I am recognised, I have been known from my band, but to be seen in such a different light will be very new and exciting”. Mat lives with his wife in London.

Ian said that he’d practised his Madeira cake twice – then Paul Hollywood said it tasted like wallpaper paste. In fact it was Marie who gained an early advantage by presenting a classic citrus Madeira that she’d made plenty of times before for her large family. Mary’s actually got the same colour eyes as me.

He also struggled in the technical challenge with several failed attempts to make the caramel for his walnuts.

So, to recap. There’s a contestant called Paul. Whilst Nadiya and Stu predictably were placed down the bottom it was Ugne who surprised everyone and came out on top. In recent years, Ian’s become more of a househusband and while his wife heads to work he often spends his days making giant catapults and zip wires for his children to play with. Because who doesn’t like cake?

Already concerned about her dog-shaped shortbread, Paul sauntered over to Lulu’s station and enquired about her method for rolling out the shortbread.

Watching on, as ever, are judges Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry.

“I entered as a bit of a joke and I thought: “I can’t keep getting through the audition rounds” – and then I finally ended up on the show”.

Let them eat cake indeed.

However when it came to the tasting, Paul praised Alvin’s cake for having “fantastic texture”.

Mobile phones must be handed in on a Friday night and there is a strict policy of no texting, taking of photographs or talking about the show with anyone beyond the four walls of your own home.

Her sponge looked like the craterous surface of the Moon, her chocolate mousse was liquid and her cake collapsed like an abandoned ice-cream cone on a hot pavement until it looked like a cherry-topped mudslide or a gaudy cow pat.

Judges decided that contestant Stu, 35, a musician from Surrey, would be leaving. On a side note, is Paul Hollywood’s shirt looking even tighter than normal?

The majority of the bets were placed in shops in and around Ipswich despite no know links to the victor.

“I’ve been keeping myself busy all day – being off from school has its down side as there’s nothing to occupy my mind from panicking about my TV debut”.