Bake Off’s Manon Lagrève gives birth to a ‘happy and healthy’ baby girl named Fleur Camille

Manon Lagrève gives birth to her first child! Bake Off star welcomes a ‘happy and healthy’ baby girl named Fleur Camille and shares first photos of the newborn By Ellie Phillips For Mailonline Published: 20:28 BST, 21 June 2021 | Updated: 20:35 BST, 21 June 2021 Manon Lagrève has given birth to her first child. … Read more

Bake Off’s Kim-Joy Hewlett breaks down in tears after being ‘bullied’ by gym instructor 

‘I’m not sticking around to be treated like that’: Bake Off’s Kim-Joy Hewlett breaks down in tears after being ‘bullied’ by gym instructor By Sean O’grady For Mailonline Published: 16:52 BST, 30 May 2021 | Updated: 16:52 BST, 30 May 2021 Kim-Joy Hewlett has revealed she was left in tears after being ‘bullied’ by a … Read more

‘I am old’: Great British Bake Off’s Matt Lucas celebrates his 47th birthday at home in his slippers

‘I am old’: Great British Bake Off’s Matt Lucas celebrates his 47th birthday at home in his slippers with some giant balloons during lockdown By Ellen Coughlan For Mailonline Published: 16:38 GMT, 5 March 2021 | Updated: 16:38 GMT, 5 March 2021 He’s everyone’s favourite funny man from Little Britain.  And Matt Lucas looked like … Read more

Bake Off’s Matt Lucas debuts his ‘first ever moustache’ after losing his hair at the age of six

‘I don’t have eyebrows so it looks a bit weird’: Bake Off’s Matt Lucas debuts his ‘first ever moustache’ after losing his hair at the age of six By Clare Mccarthy For Mailonline Published: 16:18 GMT, 3 February 2021 | Updated: 16:18 GMT, 3 February 2021 Matt Lucas has used the third national lockdown to … Read more

Shoppers share their hilarious memorabilia knock offs

Not fooling anyone! Shoppers share hilarious memorabilia knock offs – from a sinister Garfield to an Elsa backpack with giant limbs The Ugly Bootleg Instagram account shares terrible copies from around world  One snap shows a terrifying dupe for a Bart Simpson mask with googly eyes Another revealed a rather scary-looking Mr Potato Head renamed … Read more

Great British Bake Off’s Rowan says contestants have 5am start and no hot water in practice kitchens

Great British Bake Off contestant Rowan Williams has shared some of the behind-the-scenes details on the current series. The music teacher, 55, became the third contestant to be eliminated in October after failing to impress with his ‘soft and wrinkly’ bagels. Talking about what goes on behind-the-scenes, Rowan revealed that bakers have a 5am start, no hot … Read more

Great British Bake Off’s Lottie Bedlow ‘is a massive fan of Paul Hollywood’

Great British Bake Off’s Lottie Bedlow ‘is a massive fan of Paul Hollywood and was hoping to catch his eye before he praised her baking skills’ By Sean O’grady For Mailonline Published: 00:52 BST, 5 October 2020 | Updated: 00:53 BST, 5 October 2020 The Great British Bake Off hopeful Lottie Bedlow was reportedly obsessed … Read more

Stars of The Write Offs leave viewers ‘sobbing’ as they manage to spell tricky words

A 31-year-old father-of-two who couldn’t read and write after being failed by the education system and called ‘thick and stupid’ at school left viewers of Channel 4’s The Write Offs in tears after he leapt five school years after just 16 weeks of lessons.  Craig Cooper, from Ilford, who had previously been sacked from five … Read more

New series The Write Offs explores staggering adult illiteracy rates in UK

To hide the fact that he couldn’t read, Tommy would get aggressive. He’d shout at colleagues, family members, even supermarket checkout workers when they asked him to sign something. Inside he would be burning with humiliation. Emily became very naughty at school. Her teachers thought she was simply a troublemaker when she kept asking for extra … Read more

Inside the Great British Bake Off’s new socially-distanced series

The Great British Bake Off 2020 is due to hit screens on September 22 with the 12 home-bakers competing for the prize unveiled last week with the show overhauling its filming process to adhere to the coronavirus crisis.  The upcoming series took place at Down Hall Hotel in Essex after five years of filming at … Read more