BEST OF THE REST
THE GREAT CELEBRITY BAKE OFF Channel 4, 8pm
THE celebrity bakers in this series have been chosen well – all are game for a laugh and fun to watch.
In this episode, Loose Woman Stacey Solomon whispers to camera: “I hate him,” as Paul Hollywood lurks menacingly behind her shoulder.
Countdown’s Nick Hewer, formerly Lord Alan Sugar’s henchman, knows the tables have now turned: “I am the prey.”
Meanwhile, Diversity dancer Perri Kiely (the one whose hair is bigger than him), is trying to count scones but knows his limits: “I’m a dancer, I can only count to eight.”
And some competitiveness from The Kaiser Chiefs’ Ricky Wilson: “It would be unusual if one didn’t want to win.”
The bakers attempt 24 identical scones, followed by a devilish technical and finally a croquembouche – a big sticky tower of choux pastry balls. And these ones have to be a self-portrait.
One in particular is so hilariously bad, Hollywood cries actual tears of laughter.
THE RUTH ELLIS FILES: A VERY BRITISH CRIME STORY BBC4, 9pm
IT’S an engaging opening to this crime history documentary.
With the help of a photograph, filmmaker Gillan Pachter, pictured, is reconstructing the scene of a tiny bedroom where the dead body of a 37-year-old man was found in 1982.
The man named Andre had tragically taken his own life, and his body lay undiscovered for weeks. And while you wouldn’t know who he was, his mother Ruth Ellis, was one of Britain’s most notorious female killers and the last woman to be hanged in Britain.
Her crime was the cold-blooded murder of her lover David Blakely, in a case that shocked the nation, but also changed the law about the death penalty.
In this fascinating series, Gillian examines the case to look at the full story and why it still divides opinion on whether Ellis got the justice she deserved. Immediately she finds glaring holes in the police investigation that brought about Ellis’s downfall.