BAKED ALASKA-GATE [edited by MNHQ to say that this thread contains many, many GBBO spoilers. Many Many Many]

[amotherfuckingquiche]

She took Iain's ice cream out of the freezer did she not?!

That was it?! Pah. How can he go back in if it's all pre-recorded??

But may be he did because if Diana has dropped out due to illness then he could have been asked to step back in in her place.

I was quite to see the chap who won last year saying 'we need to campaign to get Iain back in'. Surely he of all people should know it was prerecorded.

Good point pipbin

Oh, and why was Kirsty Wark wearing that stupid apron?

Don't you think that the news would have leaked out, if he had gone back in, pipbin? Given how much else about this incident has been leaked?

That Monkseal blog seems to be for last year?

Wark, Putin, Ukraine....

Justice for Scotland, give us Beardy Boy.

monkseal.wordpress.com/2014/08/28/the-great-british-bake-off-5-episode-4-desserts/

I stayed up for that?

Bugger - here's the right one, I hope - Monk Seal.

Newsnight cashing in on some GBBO social media buzz - how very desperate credible

the BBC seems to be falling apart.

MNHQ - I am hormonal and not to be messed with. Please put my title back to normal. It doesn't make sense to read the title then the first comments and that bothers me. I repeat, I am hormonal. Don't make me do an Iain on you.

Also, the whole 'gate' thing is intensely annoying.

Don't you think that the news would have leaked out, if he had gone back in, pippin?

Not really. They manage to keep the winner secret every year.

Oh here he is at last........ Pesky having to sit through trivial world news.

That ice cream looks like a tumour.

I don't know how much more PR guff i can take, BBC. It is what it is. A woman with enough intelligence to know better takes ice cream out of freezer. It melts. Bearded man throws wobbler.

PartTimeModel there is always Aljazeera (ok there may be an occasional segment on hummus but thats a genuine geopolitical cuisine issue.)

Did we all watch the same show? His ice cream was pure liquid when he lifted the edges of his tin off. It can't have melted that fast and I doubt those precious few seconds would have made the ice cream freeze anyway!

I felt very sorry for him at the time but looking back it looks like a very convenient excuse not to have your not-frozen ice cream mixture judged.

hmmmmmmm I think I'll simply revert to ignoring TV news completely again. Life is better that way

I missed Newsnight.

Is it worth getting via BBC iPlayer for Iain's bit?

no.

No. There was a cake, the recipe will be on the website, the rest was just 'ooh hasn't twitter gone mad'

Recipe at bbc.co.uk/Newsnight/jeremywouldnthavestoodforthis

So, let me get this straight because I don't live in the UK. There is a prime time tv show, starring Mel and Sue of terrible, early 90's comedy fame, all about baking cakes? And an old woman got death threats for accidentally ruining someone else' Baked Alaska?! You couldn't make it up!