Had to hide the thread until I had a chance to watch it this morning.
Poor Keith, seemed a nice guy and good flavours, but his did look simplistic in comparison. Nicky as well, but she is saved for now.
Noel seems to be very flirty with Christine!
Dan did great, didn't get a lot of airtime this time but did well in all three rounds, and particularly the last two, but I guess they wouldn't give star baker twice in a row unless it was really warranted with no-one else in the running, like when Juergen kept getting it.
I like the choices of tasks this time too, as I could imagine myself making them in some ways - nowhere near of this quality, but I could at least start coming up with ideas for animals, or illusion cakes or whatever. I'd still have been thrown in the technical by things like 'make a biscuit dough' without any proportions, though.
Josh's showstopper was good, as was one of the cheeseboards (Christine?). The pizza looked bizarre from the beginning - was clearly going to be too deep long before the icing got to it! But the cheese dripping from the slice looked good. I loved the tomatoes with the boiled sweets (Josh I think). I thought Abbi did well, but the bright green looked a bit startling. Maybe that's what dim sum looks like though! Was less sure about the chicken katsu, or the steak - chocolate never quite has the colour/consistency of meat, so I think those were always a bit less good on the illusion front, although the painted bowls were nice.