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GBBO starts tomorrow!

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Forgetfulmog · 19/08/2013 09:36

Very excited!

Paul Hollywood does piss me off tbh, but I love seeing all the cakes & stuff. Will probably have to make something to eat whilst watching it though...

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LRDPomogiMnyeSRabotoi · 22/08/2013 09:34

Not that it matters at all, but Great Britsh Menu has been running for ages, and they organize it by regional sections, including one for NI. I am fairly sure the Beeb therefore thinks they might as well go with euphony rather than precision.

VikingVagine · 22/08/2013 09:40

Great United Kingdomish Menu. Nope, not working for me either.

twistedtoffee · 22/08/2013 09:55

I agree Clarice. Give it a fucking rest Tee.

Love this programme. I bet Ruby will find her nerve and end up being brilliant. A bit like Catherine last year. I think Ali might go quite soon.

VikingVagine · 22/08/2013 10:07

Umm, can't we discuss what we like on a public forum? Didn't realise sticking to the topic was part of MN's guidelines.

Tee2072 · 22/08/2013 10:13

Apparently it is now VV. Someone better report me for breaking guidelines and get me deleted forthwith.

My point, again, is that what does it matter where they are from? PC gone fucking mad.

sassytheFIRST · 22/08/2013 10:15

Ruby will be the one who "goes on a journey". Too young and beautiful to ditch early - producers will want her to stay in for a goodly while, you mark my words.

JassyAlconleigh · 22/08/2013 10:17

Sassy I think you're right.

There will be a lots of drama from that young madam.

Excellent!

VikingVagine · 22/08/2013 10:22

Yes Ruby is far too beautiful to go out in the first rounds. I'm sushi has some natural talent, otherwise they wouldn't have picked her, I agree on the whole journey theory.

VikingVagine · 22/08/2013 10:22

Sushi, really iPad?

twistedtoffee · 22/08/2013 10:33

Oh Tee, do grow up, there's a love.

No way will they ditch Ruby. She is this year's Cathryn Dresser or Holly Bell - sending a message that you can be young and beautiful and still love the old fashioned art of baking. I read an interview with Mary Berry saying that this year's group were absolutely incredibly talented. A couple of them definitely didn't bear this assertion out.

Tee2072 · 22/08/2013 10:39
Hmm

I just wish Catherine, and now Ruby, would just eat a piece of the cake they bake! Much too thin!

vintageclock · 22/08/2013 10:42

Yeah right Tee. And oh so ugly as well. [sceptical].

I loved the opening episode but had to laugh when Sue described it as a hybrid of GBBO and Casualty Smile.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 22/08/2013 10:47

Tee and Viking - if you can't behave nicely, you are going to have to go to the Naughty Step! > WinkGrin

The Britain's Next Top Model people dealt with this dilemma by renaming the programe Britain and Ireland's Next Top Model (today's useless fact). Perhaps the programme makers for GBBO need to add a tiny asterisk and a footnote including NI.

That blog is very funny - I am looking forward to next week's post.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 22/08/2013 10:49

Oh - and the more I think about it, the more Ruby is irritating me.

Nb - it is possible I have not had enough coffee yet this morning, and am therefore a bit grumpy.

VikingVagine · 22/08/2013 11:08

I am behaving Shock

Gracelo · 22/08/2013 11:16

HaHaHattie dp said the same thing of Toby.

My passport mentions neither the United Kingdom or Great Britain or Northern Ireland. Am I even allowed to watch?

Tee2072 · 22/08/2013 11:18

Neither does mine Gracelo.

I am behaving. Okay, I'm not, I'm shit stirring. But people are making it so easy!

I didn't say Ruby or Catherine weren't attractive. Just too skinny. Especially Catherine who looked a bit unwell, I thought maybe she was anorexic.

VikingVagine · 22/08/2013 11:19

DS wants me to try and take part next year, I hold a UK passport but haven't lived there for 16 years, I wonder if they'd have me Grin

Gracelo · 22/08/2013 11:37

I'm in Britain but it would take me about 8 hours just to get to London, no idea how long it would take to get to Somerset or wherever this is all happening. Completely undoable from the west coast of Sotland.

VikingVagine · 22/08/2013 11:41

I was born in Somerset, so that surely gives me some kind right doesn't it?

Tee2072 · 22/08/2013 12:14

I know they do it over a series of weekends so I wonder if they pay for travel? They all obviously stay on site when they're filming.

How exhausting would that be?

nocarsgo · 22/08/2013 12:51

IIRC they pay for travel and for all the ingredients as they develop and practice their recipes each week. Let me find Danny's (contestant from last year) blog. She was pretty bitter about the whole thing, actually. Unnecessarily so in my opinion, but it was quite eye opening.

Tee2072 · 22/08/2013 12:58

Ooh, that sounds interesting, nocarsgo. What was she bitter about?

nocarsgo · 22/08/2013 13:14

Wait, did Mumsnet eat my next post? Bloody hell, will have to start again. Bear with me...

nocarsgo · 22/08/2013 13:21

Looks like Danny has stopped paying for her bandwidth, so I had to find her blog post via the Wayback Machine:

<a class="break-all" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20121202072849/bakingastherapy.com/2012/10/21/bake-off-confidential-bittersweet-adventures-in-a-tv-show/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">web.archive.org/web/20121202072849/bakingastherapy.com/2012/10/21/bake-off-confidential-bittersweet-adventures-in-a-tv-show/

She comes across as exceptionally pissed off about how she struggled to fit the show alongside her busy life and important job. I get that, but surely she had an inkling that that was going to be the case?