Bake Off slaps ban on soggy bottoms!
‘NO SAUCE PLEASE’
NAUGHTY banter is off the menu in the new Great British Bake Off.
Rude innuendos about “soggy bottoms”, “stiff peaks”, “chunky nuts” and “nice baps” have been axed.
In the opener for the new Channel
4 series next week there are no fruity puns.
However, TV judge Paul Hollywood claims the show can survive without them.
He said: “Innuendo has been part of Bake Off for a few years but it’s not the be-all and end-all.”
Fellow judge Prue Leith added: “We don’t cook them up. They just happen.”
This will be the second year Bake Off will air on Channel 4, who poached it from the BBC for £75million, and bosses hope it will be just as big a hit for them as last year. Hollywood likened the beautiful colourful surroundings of Welford Park in Berkshire – where the show is filmed – to “Teletubby World”.
And he joked: “I’m Tinky Winky. And Prue’s La-La.”
In the new show starting a week today at 8pm, hosts Noel Fielding and Sandi Toksvig poke fun at Prue after her infamous and embarrassing gaffe last year when she accidentally tweeted the winner’s name hours before the finale had aired.
The launch ep features a Back To The Future sketch with Sandi and Noel trying to time travel to the future to stop her doing it again.
Prue admits she thought her Twitter storm had passed. But she added: “I’ll know I’m a has-been when people stop saying it.”
THE Great British Bake Off’s double entendres gave viewers the perfect mix of cooking and comedy.
Without this key ingredient, the show could be left feeling soggy and unable to rise to its previous heights.