Great British Bake Off, who will win??!

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Are we still loving GBBO?? Who is your favourite to win? I change my mind every week, love Mel and Sue tho!!

Tell me! I'm actually getting bored with it so don't really care apart from being a last chapter reader too!

In our house its certainly now a case of who we dislike least as opposed to who we like most ! shame because it does make it less interesting when you're not really rooting for any of them .

I want Kimberley to win but I reckon Ruby will. I don't think K is smug either-I think it's the way it's being edited.

am also thinking kim may being 'edited' [and is prob just answering questions that we dont see]...poss also ruby BUT am glad to see folk warming to frances who I think was slagged off too much before ........have to say tho' that I dont think paul "drools over" ruby, nor that she flutters her eyelashes at him specially.... what I like about this prog is that its about the baking really

Demise A GBBO producer posted on the other GBBO thread that Kimberley is responding to questions as opposed to conducting her own mini TV show within a show.

I like her and think she is being judged very harshly. Confidence, authority and ambition in women is often judged more harshly than in men.

Paul doesn't drool over Ruby. That is nonsense. He was barely weeks into a shattered marriage when this was filmed.

I like Frances too.

I like Christine. She's a good egg. She rarely goes wrong. However, she'll be a victim of ageism.

If not, Kimberley or Frances. Definitely not Beca, she's never done anything interesting, just solid.

Find the criticism of Christine doing 'boring' or basic' bakes a bit off when all chefs/bakers know that the test of competence is to bake a 'classic' well. The Omelette, boiled eggs and Victoria Sponge has been the undoing of many a chef/cook/baker because you cannot disguise a poor result.

It annoys me a bit that Kimberley is being slated for being confident. They all must think they're good otherwise they wouldn't have applied. Ruby must be right then, simpering and playing down your abilities is the way to go...

Christine should have gone last week really, her loaf was so raw they couldn't taste it. and this week she was last on technical challenge. so i think she should go next.

Unfortunately our culture seems to encourage women to downplay their abilities and criticises women who appear confident. Self deprecation is a learned response to this I think.

Hmm I do know where you're coming from mignonette, however I don't like arrogance in a man either. I actually like a bit of self- depracation, makes people seem more likeable and human, for want of a better word.

Then again people who blatantly fish for compliments and put themselves down when they're patently very good at something get on my nerves, so I'm obviously a fussy blighter.

I thought Glenn had a great personality, just a shame his baking couldn't match up!

deprecation obv.

I liked Glenn too. Yes I agree that a little self deprecation can be likeable too and it can help smooth ruffled feathers. I think sometimes it is used to pre-empt and defuse envy in others, especially by Women. This is a different kind of self deprecation than the fishing for compliments kind do you think Lazy?

I actually think Ruby may have major issues with confidence and that she tells everyone it's rubbish so that if/when they go 'Oh god, yes it is' she won't feel so bad because she predicted they would and so now no-one's too disappointed because they all expected her to be crap.

Not that I used to do that all the time or anything..... :(

Or, y'know, she could just be a bit of a faker. One or the other.

Yes it could well be self defence on Ruby's part. Either way at just 20 years of age, the benefit of the doubt should be given.

Just watching last week's again. My goodness Ruby is annoying - saying how she hates it and is too stressed. So, um, why did she enter?

Think self deprecation should be banned! See too many children growing up with this inhibiting characteristic.

People often dislike the Americans for their lack of it but good on them I say.

aw no Auntidote I don't agree. I thought she was in a genuine flap. And I loved Mel telling her to get a ruddy grip

Maybe I identify because I am weirdly compelled to bake though I find it fucking stressful

Nothing weird about the compulsion to bake - it does so often involve cake-eating that a bit of stress is hardly a deterrent...

I'm rooting for Kimberly because I think she's probably the best and I think she's not being anything but honest. I do find Ruby difficult to like because something doesn't quite ring true in her way of presenting herself. Accept that that may be a lack of confidence but it doesn't play well AFAIC. There was a bit of an embarrassing moment when Paul seemed inordinately concerned about her managing something but she's terrifically young;they're probably all feeling a bit more like encouraging/ protecting her rather than challenging her.

I like watching it in betting mode, sort of spotting the successful ones before the 'bake' (sorry) as it were. My dad was a baker which makes me slightly an unbearable know-it-all about it. His extremely favourable assessment of Paul Hollywood ("he's not bad, him") gives the whole thing real creditability in our family.

did not ruby from the first episode - oh she's a student and they are all so kindly towards her, her very first bake off wasn't even good but Paul undoubtedly liked her.
kimberely is good, as is Francis, and Christine, hey they are ALL very good.
kept thinking Becca would go and I think she will soon, oth they do all seem very equal.

I'm rooting for Francis at the moment. She seems to have really improved as the series has progressed.

I've tried to give Ruby the benefit of the doubt but she is very annoying. When she got in a flap and said she needed talking to, Mel was already helping someone fill a piping bag. I thought that was quite rude.

I've stopped watching it because Ruby's behaviour grates so much! I hope it's Kimberly (or anyone rather than Ruby) and then I'll be able to watch all the recorded episodes.

BTW Last years winners did his finals during the bake off and they didn't make nearly as much hooha about him!

Yes Plump and most of the other competitors hold down FT jobs, raise children and run their homes. Danny was a CCU Consultant FFS and made no mention of her stress levels.

However it is the nature of the Young Adult to have little or no sense of 1) proportion and 2) empathy so obviously Ruby sees her own situation as infinitely worse than anybody else's.

She'll grow out of it.