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to want Candice to leave GBBO next week simply because of all the gurning?

355 replies

HeyNannyNanny · 22/09/2016 12:13

I'd clearly make a crap judge.
She's obviously a fab baker, having won star baker twice but I really really hope next week is her last as all of the pouting is driving me potty.
DP thinks it's because she's trying to hide wrinkles around her mouth, which is insane if it's true.
All the ridiculous gurning is giving me The Rage.

Also, thanks to the Mnetter last week who mentioned Paul using "Mary" in every sentence.
Now that's all I hear.

I'm sure she's lovely btw Blush but I do wish shed keep her mouth still!

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MitzyLeFrouf · 22/09/2016 13:22

Paul always has someone who he 'flirts' (I say flirts, his idea of flirting seems to be staring at them a bit too long) with. But he's just so charmless.

MitzyLeFrouf · 22/09/2016 13:23

NI bloke was sabotaged.. the granny should have gone!

Ah he acted like a big baby! The other woman did nothing wrong.

NewPotatoes · 22/09/2016 13:23

Please, can we stop with the 'It's not gendered, and to prove it I will throw in a mildly disparaging comment about a male competitor?' which is about the most disingenuous thing I've ever seen on a thread slagging off a woman for her appearance and on-camera manner. Hmm

God forbid a pretty young woman who dresses well and - shock! - wears visible lipstick doesn't manage to be entirely forgetful of the fact there's a camera in her face for two days, or to look visibly happy and proud when she gets a good comment from the judges! She should perfect her shock - who, little ol' me?- face immediately.

She's being pilloried for not doing the natural-faced look AND for not managing to pull off managing to appear 'natural' in front of the camera. when she's presumably aware all the time that her appearance and demeanour is possibly being dissected online.

Do you think you could spend two days trying to cook something complicated when the second something starts to go wrong, several cameras converge and do close-ups, and not develop weird facial expressions as a way of dealing with the scrutiny?

I say good for her for looking rather glamorous and making delicious things, which are not the sole province of self-deprecating Yorkshire grannies or nice Norfolk farmers with ponies. (Or indeed lovable NI engineering red-heads, or Jane, who is my real love this season, and who I think was robbed of star baker this week...)

Something inside me is deeply pleased that somewhere in this country there's a PE teacher with cherry-red Clara Bow lips, having suffered from the scrubbed sideline Mussolini variety in my schooldays.

Final will be Candice, Jane and Benjamina. All three of whom are cool.

FantasieImpromptu · 22/09/2016 13:24

Raj is annoying me too

LiviaDrusillaAugusta · 22/09/2016 13:24

Who are the McCann brothers?

I'm so glad that Val went, I couldn't stand her and she dodged a bullet several times!

MitzyLeFrouf · 22/09/2016 13:26

Some people love Candice, other people don't.

It's fine.

LiviaDrusillaAugusta · 22/09/2016 13:26

Sorry i just realised you meant McGann - I'm a little slow today Blush

MitzyLeFrouf · 22/09/2016 13:27

Rav sails close to the wind but has miraculously avoided the noose so far. His savoury whatsits did look good last night.

takesnoprisoners · 22/09/2016 13:27

Can't stand her! Hope she leaves.

HeyNannyNanny · 22/09/2016 13:27

Final will be Candice, Jane and Benjamina. All three of whom are cool. all women? newpotatoes now let's not be sexist Wink

In all seriousness though, I recognised and have said multiple times that baking is obviously her important point, and don't give a stuff for what she wears. But all the pouting for the camera is deeply annoying.

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bloomburger · 22/09/2016 13:28

YANBU I detest her and want her to get herself to a decent cosmetics counter where they'll tell her that her choice of lipstick colour verging on the plum shade makes her teeth look a yellowy green colour.

The little quotes about balls and jugs is irritating too. Totally transparent to get air time and a few sniggers.

HeyNannyNanny · 22/09/2016 13:28

Raj is constantly dodging a bullet!

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LiviaDrusillaAugusta · 22/09/2016 13:34

When it comes down to slagging someone off for the way they apply their makeup, this place is no better than the Mail's sidebar of shame.

NewPotatoes · 22/09/2016 13:34

But all the pouting for the camera is deeply annoying.

And you don't think that's nerves? Ditto wearing a fair bit of makeup as a protective measure against being scarlet and flustered, knowing you'll have a camera a foot from your face when you screw something up?

And while I imagine the producers would love to have a man in the final for variety, I would be astonished if any of the men still in it have a hope. Tom and Rav have been in danger for weeks, and Selasi isn't too far behind. Andrew is the strongest male competitor left, but I don't think he measure up to any of Jane, Candice or Benjamina, unless the wheels really fall off someone else's weekend.

LunaLoveg00d · 22/09/2016 13:35

Can't stand her. Pouty, smug when she wins and I think she is under the impression she's on X-factor with the stories about her dead Gran.

Benjamina to win. She's much nicer.

LiviaDrusillaAugusta · 22/09/2016 13:35

It's easy not to warm to some people on the TV but I think facial expressions and makeup are really unnecessary things to criticise.

HandmaidsTail · 22/09/2016 13:35

Livia thank fuck, I thought I was going mental there. Grin

MitzyLeFrouf · 22/09/2016 13:36

'going mental'?

LiviaDrusillaAugusta · 22/09/2016 13:36

GrinGrinGrin

LiviaDrusillaAugusta · 22/09/2016 13:37

As someone with MH issues I have no problem with that phrase.

I find it far more disgusting that people are bitching about someone purely because of their make up and expressions.

ScrambledSmegs · 22/09/2016 13:38

I thought Val was lovely. She was a bloody disaster last night though.

Apparently Candice teaches at a local school and is well-liked. I like her too, she's making the most of being on the show and clearly having a brilliant time.

The only one that irritates me badly this year is Andrew, and it's for reasons that aren't his fault but the production team's. They always interview him facing into the sun, so the poor lad's eyes practically disappear and his teeth glow. It's really unfair.

ElspethFlashman · 22/09/2016 13:38

Raj is getting on my last tit and I feel guilty as he's so inoffensive and cheery.

Lovely lovely bloke - can't fucking bake! He is running on luck at this point, pure and simple. Someone has always fucked up worse than him. He's got to be weeded out next week.

Unless Tom makes another one of his oh so daring and brave fennel and weaselsperm focaccias and Paul actually vomits on his Kitchen Aid.

DerelictMyBalls · 22/09/2016 13:38

I'm so glad it's not just me - Candice is awful! She seems to be a good baker but her affected mannerisms really grate on me.

Benjamina to win!

ElspethFlashman · 22/09/2016 13:42

And since when are we not allowed to be turned off someone cos of their facial expressions?

I don't give a flying fuck about her lipstick, but Kenneth Williams gurning is annoying on anyone. She literally sticks her tongue in her cheek! FFS!

I don't mind a bit of playing to the camera (Andrew and Selasi are trying hard too) but she's taking it OTT, definitely. And I say that as someone who LIKES her!

squoosh · 22/09/2016 13:42

'I find it far more disgusting that people are bitching about someone purely because of their make up and expressions.'

That's funny Livia. Weren't you were on a GBBO thread recently being less than pleasant about Mary Berry's appearance? I remember it because you accused her of having had so much plastic surgery that her face barely moved!