Bake Off adverts

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Have we gone back to the 1950s?? We've had a strange Stork advert where a man tells two women to 'come on ladies' and they compete to bake him a cake. We've then had a Colgate toothpaste advert which implies the purpose of having nice teeth is so you can attract a man on a train.

How does this stuff get signed off?!

Also celeb dating, which being the complete prude I am, I thought was unsuitable for my youngest. Liked the show though but missed Mel and Sue and Mary.

yep more or less what I just said. Dire

I said that too.

I miss Mary . . . but I love Prue.
I miss Sue . . . but I love Sandy.

Love Noel - he is really funny.

Those singing cakes are fucking annoying.

I hated the stork advert. Really grated on me (sexist/ agist). And the buttercream on top of the stork cake looked horrible.

Loved it put not as acerbic as I thought she might be. Noel just lovely and Sandy is always fab.

(I did love the original though)

Didn't pay any attention to the adverts i made tea during them 😀

for me.... the adverts ruined this... not the new presenters

PRU not put!

I fast forwarded through the ads and they still ruined it - ruined the flow, loss of the interesting historic bits. Eugh.

Yy to those bloody singing cakes! Honestly, it's a ten sec ad in abfamily baking show- show a nice cake, icing sugar being sprinkled on top, cut to a shot of Dr Oetker Premium Squiffles, job done.

Loved the contestants , didn't like the changes and the ads ruin the flow.

4/10.

They made the prog 15 mins longer to accomodate the ads. Wonder if the historic bits will re-emerge later when fewer contestants make the show less crowded and rushed. I never do enjoy the 'get to know everyone' first episode as much as the rest.

Love the illusion cakes round!

I absobloodylutely loved it and I was a die hard fan on the beeb, I think the ads give us a chance to chat, phone the parents, check our msgs,have a pee and go put t'kettle on !

I liked the singing cakes

Stork is disgusting. When I am quern of the world I will make it illegal not to use butter in baking!

Yes agree with the Stork advert. WTF! Who uses Stork anymore anyway? Badly dubbed too.

Noel needs to be more Noel like....he was a bit flat. I liked Sandy & Pru was predictable.

I think they should have jazzed the whole thing up a bit. The formula was getting tired and they've kept it the same.

They had to keep it the same, at least initially, to keep the fan base.

I don't see a problem with Stork in cakes. I'd always use butter, though, for buttercream.

I really enjoyed it. Like how gone back to making stuff you've heard of and not Victoria cake week or stuff never heard of

I loved Noel
I also loved the singing ringing cakes
I loved it loved it loved it
I loved the subtle poke at Mary Berry's 'style' by Sandy wearing the bomber jacket they had obviously already picked out for MB lol

Also I really appreciate Prue actually having a big piece of cake and eating it...... not like the namby pamby teeeny weeny peece that MB pretended to eat !

I am overinvested in the programme..... I need to lie down ...it's Pauls eyes.......... that beautiful shade of blue....... mesmerising

The ads were more annoying because they were so short. Obviously deliberately, but I couldn't even go out for a wee in between! I love Noel Fielding and Sandi on other things but not so much on this. Their appeal is that they are a bit unconventional but they seem to have been sanitised far too much. Maybe they will gel as the series goes on. I didn't really notice Mary missing tbh.

I feel like I've just put on last year's dressing gown, freshly laundered, and an exact same pair of my favourite slippers that I'd worn out, but someone found a brand new replacement pair for me.