First contestant leaves Bake Off

The first baking hopeful has been booted from the famous white tent as the Great British Bake Off made its debut on Channel 4.

IT programme manager Peter failed to rise to the occasion as he got the chop in the first episode of the show not to air on the BBC.

The hit programme returned to television in its new home with different presenters and a new judge but the familiar tropes of oven-watching, cake binning and sprinting round the tent in a race against the clock.