Welcome to An Extra Slice of Bake Off action.
To delve into Dessert Week,
I'm joined by an enticing array of puddings.
The fruity Harry Hill...
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..the sweet Melvin Odoom...
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..and someone we always leave room for:
Paul Hollywood.
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Hello!
So, Dessert Week,
Let's start by clarifying
exactly what a dessert is.
Jasmine's bound to know.
Um...
..what are desserts?
Oh, OK. Let's try Tea Towel Tom.
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Maybe he'll be able to tell us.
What is a dessert?
Well, surely Aaron must know what a dessert is.
# Absolutely not
# Absolutely not. #
On the plus side, he has just been cast in Les Mis.
Well, thank goodness we've got a baking expert on hand.
Harry, tell us what a dessert is.
I think a dessert is the thing you have
to take away the taste from your main course, isn't it?
Do you know how the dessert was actually invented, Jo?
o, Harry, I don't.
It was in 1890,
when someone accidentally spat a toffee onto a banana.
And then they thought they were spraying some bleach on it,
but it was, in fact, spray cream.
And then someone said,
"Well, let's see what it tastes like."
And that's how the dessert was, um...
..how the dessert was invented. Yeah.
Well, if anyone could just have one dessert
after every dinner for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Sticky toffee pudding for me.Oh. AUDIENCE MURMURS
Oh, look, that got a nice... Is that a good choice?
JO IMITATES AUDIENCE
Yeah. What about you, Paul?
I would go trifle, I love trifle. Big fan. Yeah? Yeah.
I always liked my nan's trifle.
And she used to do the sherry trifle. Yeah.
And she wouldn't hold back with the sherry.
Was it quite heavy with the sherry? Yeah.
Sometimes all she'd do is she'd get a sponge finger
and jam it into the top of a sherry bottle.
After suffering from eating too many meringues last week,
Paul, you must have been relieved to report a positive development.
Er...
There's a bit of movement this week.
That was the curry.
But the bakers endured a shocking event the night before Dessert Week,
when someone broke into the tent
and stole all the men's trousers.
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One moustachioed baker left the tent. Iain.
Aww.
Although the great news is he'll be joining us later in the show!
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Are you excited to meet Iain?
Yeah. Fellow short king in the house. That's always a good look.
Yeah, no, absolutely.
Any questions you've been dying to ask him?
How does he get his mullet so perfect?
Do you like a mullet?
Well, I'd love any kind of hair, to be honest with you.
Sorry... I can only work with the ones...
..the hair that I got on my face. A bit insensitive.
How rude of me. I have to say, actually,
very briefly, because he's from Belfast.
And my happiest memory of Belfast, right,
I was there doing a theatre years ago,
and it's the only time it's ever happened.
A man on the balcony
threw his pants at me.
And I put my hand up and actually caught them.
And they were still warm.
And they were light blue Y-fronts.
So whoever that man is, thank you so much.
My pleasure.
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OK, let's part the tent flaps once again
and remind... AUDIENCE MEMBER LAUGHS
No. Come on. That's all in your head, madam.
And...
And remind ourselves of all the latest Bake Off drama.
Quarterfinal week...
I'm kind of speechless.
Don't panic!
..and the bakers faced desserts.
Now panic!
For once, they had to burn something on purpose
with the Basque cheesecake signature.
Do that, but better.
Oh, cheers!
Toby decided to combine baking with a bit of rapping.
Got the jam, got the lemon, got the sage.
Maybe stick to the baking, Toby.
Oh!
Despite a scare in the steamed pudding Technical...
Oh! Oh, my God.
Oh, my God, I totally forgot about my custard.
..Tom came first at last.
It is a pretty well faultless little steamed pudding, this.
The Showstopper was a freestanding trifle...
This is the big moment.
Oh, yeah.
..with no added pressure from the judges.
Today's Showstopper Challenge is my favourite pudding of all time.
So gutted about that jelly.
We said goodbye to Iain
as both he and his magnificent mullet left the tent,
while Jasmine was on fire.
Star Baker for the fourth time.
Oh! That's cool.
Paul, Jasmine's only 23,
but she's already an amazing baker. Yeah.
Were you that good at baking at her age?
I had already been in the industry for five years by then.
OK. So I was... Er, 23...
I was working for the Duke of Westminster.
Wow. That was all right. Yeah.
How come...? What does he like to have for pudding?
Banana split!
Does he?
Oh, wow. It's a joke!
Now, Harry, as a former doctor yourself,
do you think Jasmine's medical training
gives her an edge in the tent?
When I was very briefly a doctor,
I did used to remember parts of the body
by associating them with baked goods.
So... Yeah, no, bear with it. So, um...
So, for instance, like the leg bone, you know, the femur,
I would call, you know, I would call it a baguette,
you know, because it's a bit like... Just, like, to remember.
A croissant, I used to think is...
..I would use croissant for stomach
because the stomach's a little bit like a croissant.
And the ring doughnut, I used...
Well, we won't go into that!
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Come on! Come on.
But you do have to be very careful about
the amounts you put in the measurements. True.
You know, if it says,
"Give the patient five milligrams of pethidine,"
you can't give them 20. No.
And that's why I had to leave.
No, she's going to win, isn't she?
I think she seems to be so consistently on it.
Well, one thing's for sure, it's not going to be Iain.
Now, this week saw him make his last...
That's brutal! Was that brutal? Absolutely brutal.
All right, shall I do it nicely?
Shall I do it nicer? Yeah. OK. All right. Go back. OK.
Well, one thing's for sure.
It's not going to be useless Iain.
No. Um...
This week saw Iain bake his last Showstopper.
When you arrived at Iain's workbench,
Iain's day got a whole lot better.
You know what? My last day of practice went really well.
So everyone around you was patting you on the back?
Yeah. Good. Not here though!
Unless you want to pat me on the back.
I would love that. I think I need it right now.
What, me? Yeah. Do you want a pat on the back?
A Hollywood pat! Well done, mate. Yeah. Oh!
Aww!
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Oh! I really needed that, man.
That was very good, that.
Very good.
What have you enjoyed most about watching Iain in the tent?
I just feel like he's got an amazing energy in the tent.
He's always smiling and he really cares about his bakes, I feel.
I like his sort of Scooby-Doo laugh, that he does that sort of...
"Hee-hee-hee-hee!"
Raggy!
Yeah. You can't not like Iain. He's lovely, isn't he?
He's very likeable. He's a lovely little guy.
OK, over to Tom.
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A Basque cheesecake traditionally has a burnt top,
and he decided to run with the idea
and make the entire cheesecake black.
Let's see how Prue reacted to this delightfully artistic idea.
So, it was a bold move. What did you think?
I thought it was a great concept, but honestly,
if I was in a cake shop and saw that,
that wouldn't be the one that I would personally pick.
Let's say someone said, "Do it for the set of Wednesday,"
that would be the perfect cake.
Do you know what I mean? Or Noel. Yeah!
It's a Noel cake.
Yeah, it is a Noel cake. Exactly.
So I like the idea, but I personally wouldn't pick it.
Paul, you weren't that keen on the flavours of that cake. No.
It was terrible. What was wrong with it?
It was too claggy.
Neither really dominated in the sort of...
It lost its way. I didn't mind the look as much,
but it came down to the texture and the flavours weren't good.
It was a sort of moment of theatre, wasn't it?
When he cuts into the... You cut, in fact! Yeah!
..cut into it and it's that yellow... That was good.
That looked like an infection, I think. It did look like...
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Yeah. But not to put you off!
It's like lancing! Yeah. When you...
..put a bit of cream on it, you don't expect it to be...
..cream.
Were you happy with the standard?
I think the standard generally all year has been incredible.
I think the bakers have been amazing.
All of the bakers have been amazing.
I feel like you've got the hardest job in the world,
because I felt like everyone was really, really great this series
and currently, I think everyone could potentially win. Yeah.
I do have a few favourites. Go on.
Aaron, for me. I feel like when he bakes, he bakes with love.
Like when he was saying how plums remind him of his grandfather
and stuff like that. And so when I feel like you incorporate
your family into it, then I just kind of love that.
Yeah. Harry, who would you like to see win?
Can it be anyone, or...? Yeah, anyone.
Rachel Reeves. She's had a terrible year.
She could...
She could do with a bit of good luck, you know.
Give her a break.
Well, we've heard what our panel made of Dessert Week.
Now, let's hear from a man who's never one to trifle with.
It's Tom Allen!
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Hi! Hi, hi, hi.
Oh, all the lads here with Jo.
All the lads. Lads, lads, lads.
Bald...mainly bald lads!
Did you enjoy Dessert Week, Tom?
Well, what a lumpy old episode it was!
So many lumps.
My lump, my lumps, my lovely cakey lumps!
Now, as everybody knows,
I love grime music.
And quite often I do hear the singer mention the herb.
But MC Toby chose this week to tell us exactly what the herb is.
Got the jam, got the lemon, got the sage.
Oh, it's sage!
Is that what was being smoked? Who knew?
Anyway, men are bitches, aren't they?
Here's MC Toby again,
helping Iain plate his bake.
Pull that wrapper away.
Where? Here? That one. Yep. Yep.
BLEEP. Damn it!
It's split. Oh, dear.
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To be fair, Iain didn't say please, did he?
And we are not at home to Mr Rude.
The only thing that split quicker than Iain's cheesecake was...Toby.
Least there weren't too many pith jokes in this episode, though, eh?
Oh, that really would have pithed me off.
I don't get what the big joke is, anyway, we've all had cakes
with too much pith in them,
and that's the last time I go to an Oasis concert on my birthday.
What was that Basque cheesecake as well that Tom made?
Looked absolutely horrible. Such a weird colour. Could be dessert,
and then you could use it to tarmac the road afterwards,
fill in some of those potholes. Am I right, guys?
Let's climb a lamppost and hang up a flag!
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Anyway, I can't wait to see what they all get up to next week
in the semifinal.
So, Tom, have you got a favourite dessert?
Probably the Sahara.
LAUGHTER Whey!
After the break, Tom will be brandishing his whisk
at our studio bakers, and we'll be looking at pictures
of the baking you've been doing at home. Brace yourselves.
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Welcome back. I'm dissecting Dessert Week with Tom Allen,
Melvin Odoom, Harry Hill, and Bake Off judge Paul Hollywood.
Now, here's an unseen moment
where Iain fesses up to something really quite disturbing.
I'm very concerned with how much of me I have served to Paul and Prue.
There was hair last week. There was bits of my finger on Bread Week.
There was blood most weeks.
So this week, nothing of me will go in this bake.
Apart from my heart and soul.
Aw!
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And, as ever,
we've asked our audience to share their most shocking kitchen secrets.
Anonymously, of course. What have they confessed to this week?
Well, it's been a busy week in the confession booth.
Somebody in the audience sent this - "For three years, my vegan boyfriend
"has been coming to my flat to beg me for Cheddar cheese,
"moules frites and, recently, chicken alfredo.
"His vegan best friends and family still don't know.
"I'm now buying two blocks of Cheddar a week."
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He wants quite weird stuff. Well, I don't know what chicken alfredo is.
Neither do I. What is it? No idea.
Probably it was a chicken whose name was Alfredo.
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Would be my guess.
I wonder if there's a lot of sort of lying vegans.
Loads. Maybe there's a urine test or something they could do.
Like at football? Like a spot urine test on the vegans. Just an idea.
"My boyfriend at university had a white T-shirt
"that he called his food eating top
"that he wore for every single meal so he could freely spill food
"on himself without worrying about having to wash his clothes.
"He wore it every meal for three years without washing it.
"We're now married 15 years."
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Wow. Wow. Bet it's grimy.
What he could do is boil it up for stock.
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Delicious! That's a good idea. Yeah. Yeah.
Right, let's see what you've been baking in the kitchens
around Britain. Now, let's start in Wiltshire,
where Alice and her partner Georgia
made a very special cake for Alice's mum's 53rd birthday -
a dark chocolate sponge with chocolate buttercream and honeycomb,
all topped off with a picture of her mum's absolute favourite person.
Yes, you've guessed it...
..Ben Fogle! What more could a mother ask for?
Whose face would you want on a cake?
Eamonn Holmes.
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Carol Vorderman for me, please. Oh, you love Carol Vorderman, don't you?
Love Carol Vorderman. She's a wonderful lady.
What do you like about her so much? She's very good with numbers.
Have you been on a date with her?
No, but we did a show together and she was lovely to me. Was she? Yeah.
Aw!
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..took part in a fun baking competition with her friends, where
they set themselves the challenge of making cakes featuring...
..rhinos.
And why not? Impressed by that? Yeah, the details are amazing.
That's clever. Meanwhile, Jan in Shrewsbury had asked her husband
to bake a cake of their much-loved dog.
Apparently, he's a great cook - her husband, not the dog -
but he's not so experienced at cakes.
Here was the reference picture Jan gave him,
and after many hours of hard work,
here's the cake he triumphantly produced.
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That's more impressive! That's far more impressive.
Do you prefer that one? That looks like it's standing up.
But it does look like a piglet, doesn't it?
It does look like a pig, yeah.
So let's try and put that nightmarish sight out of our mind
and pop over to Ruddington in Nottinghamshire,
where Dale decided to make his own Colin the Caterpillar cake
for his daughter's birthday,
simply by pimping up a chocolate Swiss roll.
Let's have a reminder of what a caterpillar usually looks like.
Very nice. And, disappointingly for his daughter,
Dale's idea of pimping up involved slightly less decoration.
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That mouth... Dale knew he'd be in trouble,
and by the looks of things, so did the cake.
Please keep those pictures coming.
OK, studio bakers, get ready. It's over to Tom.
Well, thanks, Jo, and let's start now with Megan and her dad Keith.
Where's Megan and Keith? Over here.
Hello, Megan and Keith. Hello, hello. Hello.
Hello, Keith. Hello, Tom. Hello, Megan. Hello.
Keith's not a name you hear very often nowadays. No, it isn't.
No. Keith? Yeah. Yes, nice name. Yeah. Keith.
You never hear a baby called Keith. You don't, do you? No.
What does it mean, the name Keith? It's Scottish, apparently.
Well, that doesn't answer the question. Well, I don't know.
Megan and Keith, lovely to have you here.
Now, Megan, what have you brought here? Um, so this is celebrating
my dad's love of barbecue.
He's got a bit of a reputation for burning his barbecues.
Oh, have you, Keith? Is that what Keith means?
Yes, possibly. Fear of barbecue,
or fear of giving people food poisoning.
Oh! And, so, unfortunately, this summer,
the pressure got to him a bit, and I think he finally cracked,
because he ended up serving raw chicken. Oh, Keith. Yeah.
Yeah. So I wanted to prove everybody wrong that I can cook or bake.
So this is my first-ever effort.
So you brought a cake along? First time baker!
It's a Paul Hollywood recipe.
A Paul Hollywood recipe? Must be good.
And I was worried about my ganache. You were worried about your ganache!
Well, Harry's a doctor. Oh, fine.
But I think, um... Yeah, I was worried
I'd put too much cream on my ganache. But, no, it's come out
fine. I think your Ganache has held together fantastically.
Thank you very much. Keith maybe means "fantastic ganache."
Right, OK, let's take it over to... All right, thank you.
Oh, my. It's not light, is it?
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OK, OK. One second, one second. I'll take it...
Oh, it's quite the workout.
I'll put that there for a moment.
I could maybe move that one? That one, which isn't real.
LAUGHTER It looks great.
You're in with a chance of getting a pat on the back here.
You must be very excited, Keith. I am, actually.
Megan, I want to hear a bit more about this one.
So this is beautifully recreating a barbecue. Yes.
How do you like to cook? I don't. You don't cook at all? I bake.
Oh, you bake. Air fryer? Got an air fryer? I do.
You do like an air fryer, do you? I do. It's a bit weird, though,
an air fryer? They are. Just like putting chicken in a drawer. Yes.
Yeah. Chicken in a drawer.
And then you take it out of the drawer and it's a cooked chicken.
Strange, isn't it?
They've dived in. They've dived into the cake. Let's find out.
Paul... Oh, he's coming over.
Oh, maybe he's going to punch you in the face!
Oh! Oh!
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Wow!
Brilliant. Thank you. I've never seen one happen up close.
I feel quite emotional.
Paul, why did he get that handshake? It was a great cake.
It was a great cake. Great cake. Where did you get the recipe from?
Shut up!
That is a great cake. Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Melvin, would you concur? I loved it.
It's got a great texture there.
I love the contrast of the fruit with the cake itself.
A wonderful texture as well. The icing was perfect.
Thank you. Thank you very much.
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Megan, you've gone to all this effort.
We've hardly had a chance to talk to you. I know!
Anyway, thanks very much!
Kate and Ed and Ed's parents. All the way over here.
Excuse me. Hello. Hello. Hello.
Kate and Ed. Kate and Ed.
Kate and Ed. Now, Kate, of course,
you've brought a lot of wonderful things along here.
Kate, are these cakes? Or have you knitted them?
I've crocheted cakes.
So, each week, I made one of the Technical Bakes
from the Bake Off show. Oh, my goodness,
you even made a gala pie. Yeah. Oh, isn't that lovely?
A crocheted gala pie. That's very clever, isn't it? Impressive.
Have you always been a crotchetier?
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I've been doing it for about 14 years now.
Talk us through the other Technicals we've got here.
So we've got the gala pie and what are the other ones?
So, that's the school cake. And then the fun and fancy,
the digestive doughnut, white chocolate tart.
And then I made Nataliia's little bear macaron.
Oh! You call him Bear? Yeah. Oh, that's nice.
Do you like being called Bear? Yeah.
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It does look a bit like you, actually. I can see that.
I can see that. Well, that's very nice.
Hello. Hello. Ben? I'm Ben. Hello, Ben.
Nice to see you. What have you made?
Well, I've made some lovely things called Hayman's pockets.
And they are filled with a carrot marmalade,
Maltesers and chocolate. Gosh, quite a pocket Hayman had, isn't it?
Yeah. There's Parmesan and Marmite then... What?
Suffolk blue cheese. What's wrong with you?
Why did you do all these things? She asked me to.
Did you just go through the fridge and see what was going on?
Pretty much. Shove them in old Hayman's pocket.
Well, no, you're not supposed to put this in. Oh.
I was experimenting. Oh, I see, Ben, you're an experimental baker.
I like that. But also, there's some Ovaltine in the mix.
Oh, sure!
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What an empty pantry you must have.
That's wonderful, Ben, thank you and thank you
and thank you and, well, thank you.
Ellie and her three... Oh, that's easy! Hello, Ellie!
Ellie, which one are you? You're all kind of interchangeable.
I feel like I've typed into AI: "Ellie"!
Hello, Ellie! Hello, and these are your friends?
Yes! Lovely, lovely, what lovely...
You all look like you're from a knitting catalogue.
You've all got cardigans on as well, very autumnal.
Ellie, what do you do for a living? We're doctors.
Oh, all of you? Wonderful, wonderful!
What sort of doctor are you, Ellie?
I work with children at the minute. Oh, that's wonderful.
Children at the minute - you're not going to stick with it.
Lovely! That's lovely, lovely that you do that.
And what sort of doctor are you? I work in ICU at the moment.
ICU, intensive care? Oh, yes, I know what it stands for!
Very good, is that hard work,
or is it quite lazy, you can put your feet up?
No... They're all out of it, aren't they?
I spend most of my time teaching medical students.
Oh, goodness, wow, that's wonderful. What do you do?
I locum at the moment.
Locum, you charge extra for filling in when people are off.
Supply teacher over there, yes, you?
I work in vascular surgery. Vascular!
So who's made the cake here? It was a joint effort.
A joint effort? OK, and it's a... What is it, is it a vein?
It's a Croc cake. Oh, like a Croc shoe? Yes! Oh, right.
We all wear them to work. You wear them to work? Do you?
Do you where them? I do. To get in and out of your huge Mercedes?
Turning up at the GP's surgery.
You wear Crocs on the ward, do you? Theatres as well. And theatres?
Oh, gosh, that's terrible, people used to dress up for the theatre.
Well, good luck to you all
and thank you very much for bringing this delicious Croc cake.
As much as I'd love to eat a shoe, I'm not going to do it today.
Well done. Thank you, Ellie and friends, thank you!
All right, well, now we're going to go to Annette, Sue and LJ.
Where are they? Hello, Annette? Yes!
Sue. Yes. LJ.
LJ, what do you do, LJ?
Nothing at the moment. Nothing, great.
What do you do? I'm retired as well. Nothing as well.
Annette? Yeah, I'm at home. Yeah, great, three dossers, great!
Who do you want to win, Bake Off, Annette?
Um... I don't know.
You don't really watch it, OK.
OK, great, well done! Thank you, Annette!
OK, OK...
Oh! Oh-ho-ho!
And now I've got the job of announcing this week's Star Baker,
and I'm delighted to say that it is...
Keith...!
First time baker, Hollywood handshake!
Dreams can come true! LAUGHTER
But not for one baker,
because it's now that bit of the show
when I'm going to be asking one baker
to leave the studio
clutching their sad little Tupperware behind them.
LAUGHTER
I'm afraid it is...
..Ellie and her fellow doctors,
because they wear Crocs to the theatre!
LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
But no-one will be going away empty-handed,
as they each take away
one of our astonishingly cheap Extra Slice wooden spoons!
APPLAUSE
But, as ever, a huge thank you to all of our studio bakers.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Thanks, Tom.
After the break, we'll meet the baker who finally put
Bake Off's Bingate to bed - Iain will be here, back in a bit.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Welcome back. I'm here with Melvin, Harry and Paul,
and I'm delighted to say it's now time to meet
the man, the myth, the mullet.
Will you please give a warm welcome to Iain, everybody?!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Hello!
Heya! Hiya.
Hello!
Hi, Iain. Hello! We're so delighted to have you here.
Incredible achievement, getting to the quarterfinals. Yeah.
When's the open-top bus tour of Belfast happening here?
Here, everyone's welcome.
Have they I supported you, though?
Every time I leave the house in Belfast.
it's loads of wee mammies queuing up for pictures,
just telling me, "Ach, you're doing great, I really hope you win,"
and I'm just like... "You'll see."
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Now, your partner, Dervla, got a few mentions on the show.
And in chocolate week, you let us in on a little secret
about your choice of Glenariff...
Is that how you say it? Yep, yep. ..Park for your fondue showstopper.
Don't tell anyone,
but I'm planning on proposing to Derv at this place.
Aw!
And, Dervla, you're here.
Was it a bit awkward when you said no?
Yeah... LAUGHTER
I had to let him down easy, yeah. He didn't have far to go.
LAUGHTER
Were you surprised? Yeah, I thought we were going camping,
and it was a much nicer surprise to get a diamond instead.
Oh, my God, yeah, absolutely!
Well, congratulations. Thank you. Um...
Yeah! CHEERING
Well, let's briefly revisit Dessert Week.
Now, you'd never made a Basque cheesecake before. Yeah.
Here's one of my favourite moments.
It was like watching one of those nature programmes
where the cameraman can't intervene
as a predator approaches a newly hatched turtle. Oh, God!
Oh, BLEEP, can someone lift that off the bottom, please?
Please, please, can someone lift the bottom?
I...
I don't think anyone can.
Aw!
You could have cut round with a pair of scissors and left the base on.
Because often when I'm going in to cut something,
I'll say, "Has this got paper?"
and then I'll find the paper and then drive it in,
then it's my fault if it breaks.
So I would have just cut around it
and left the base there and just cleared the sides.
Didn't know that. LAUGHTER
You dealt with it well, though.
But you were stressed out because you care about what you're doing.
And at the end, I think it looked great.
Yeah, I covered the cracks well.
If you weren't filmed throughout the whole thing, no-one would even know.
I think that's, like, my MO.
If you didn't know what went on during the bake, it would be fine!
Paul, I've noticed we never see you or Pru spring into action to help.
Is that cos you can't be bothered?
Well, Pru's normally leaning on a tree with the bottle, er...
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..and I'm normally picking her up.
In Meringue Week, you paid tribute
to one of Bake Off's most memorable disasters
with your Bingate showstopper.
I mean, Pru liked it, didn't she? She said it was witty.
Yeah, that was something
that I'm going to remember for my entire life,
that she came up to me and she was just like,
"It's so witty!"
I was like, this is... this is my moment.
You were known, for me,
for your artistic flair, cos you are an artist,
cos some of the stuff you'd done
had been incredible, it looks amazing. Thank you.
The fact that you saved a cake a couple of weeks back as well
by putting it in the fridge, bringing it out... Yep!
..and just chucking it together, again, when I saw that,
I never realised that happened, again, because I was picking Pru up,
but it was, um... LAUGHTER
but it was amazing, what you managed to do. Let's have a look.
Ohhh!
It's just falling apart.
HE GASPS
AUDIENCE MOANS
That was so bad!
I literally, with my hands, just started slapping ganache on it,
smoothing it out,
and then put it in the fridge and hoped for the best.
Well, let's have a look at that magnificent comeback.
I'm going to try and wrap it in acetate.
I'm going to chuck it in the fridge and just hope for the best.
I'll take it.
Just hammering this as fast as we can.
Put the wee train on, the cars.
It's going to be down to the wire.
Iain, would you like to bring up your showstopper?
That's incredible! It looks amazing.
I'd happily eat a plateful of that. Mm, tastes great.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Paul might do the handshake.
I'm going to give you the spud.Oh! LAUGHTER
That's a first! Really impressive.
That was amazing, to just bring it back like that.
But, I mean, you weren't always stressed out in the tent.
Here's Toby.
Isn't that cool? Finn McCool!
No matter how stressful it is,
you can always hear Iain having a nice time.
Lots of your bakes were inspired by Irish folklore
and your incredible landscape,
like your Glenariff fondue, Giant's Causeway tart
and Queen's University Swiss roll.
Were there any more Irish ingredients
that you'd like to have used later in the competition?
I feel like I really like dulse,
like, the sort of like seaweedy type thing.
And I used it a little bit in one of my bakes,
but it's got a really nice salty flavour. Quite umami.
That doesn't mean anything to me, Paul,
but, anyway, thanks, umami. Sorry. What's that then?
It's basically the opposite of umdadi.
LAUGHTER
Tom, where are you?
OK, Jo, has anyone got a question they'd like to ask Ian?
Who's got a question? Oh...
Hello, what... Stand up! Oh, OK! What's your name?
My name's Sam. Sam, nice to see you. What's your question for Ian?
I just wondered if you ever got any extra time,
because sometimes it seems like you're making something still,
and it's like, "Right, time up!"
So I just wondered if you ever got given a little bit of extra time.
Oh, you think he cheated!
Kick a man while he's down! He's out of the competition, Sam!
Hasn't it been tough enough for him?
So, Ian, did you cheat
and sometimes carry on working after the whistle was blown?
So, on Bread Week, I chopped my fingertip off.
Oh, yeah.
So I was getting, like, bandaged up and stuff,
so I think I got a few minutes extra at the end of...
I think you got about 15. Injury time, they get injury time.
Yeah!
Did the tip of the finger end up in the bread?
I don't know actually even where it went, so!
I do.
Now, Iain, am I right in thinking you've brought a friend along today?
Yeah, a friend...
This is Hassan, everybody!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
I like him.
Lovely to have you with us. What do you think of Iain's progress?
Did he do well? Yeah, no, he smashed it.
He did, didn't he? Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
What have you been up to since we last saw you?
Same old, same old.
LAUGHTER
Well, it's been lovely to chat.
Who else has got a question? Excuse me, sorry, sorry.
Excuse me, sorry, sorry! Excuse me, sorry, sorry!
Hello, what's your name? Attia. What's your question for Iain?
My question is, if you could set a Technical Challenge,
what would it be? Oh, I like that! Oh, that's so good.
I think...a sourdough challenge
where you would have to leave it overnight,
really, like, add time to the equation.
I think that would be fun. Yes, overnight.
Do you make your own sourdough? Have you ever made sourdough?
No, I don't, but my husband's just started baking.
He's started making some breads, but not sourdough yet.
Oh, wait until he gets onto it, he won't shut up about!
"Oh, my sourdough starter!
"Oh, I've had this for 400 years!"
It's just a piece of bread -
shove it in the toaster and let's get on with our lives!
Got that to look forward to.
Back to you, Jo! Back to you.
Now, Iain, another accolade we'd like to bestow on you
is having the best mullet ever to appear on Bake Off.
Do you like a mullet, Harry?
It's supposed to be business at the front
and party out the back, isn't it?
That's what they say about a mullet,
whereas I've got sort of just a sort of car park.
Now, in honour of your iconic hairstyle,
we're going to have a quick game of Mullet Over.
Ooh!
So, as you can see, our guests are appropriately attired for this.
Looking...
Yes, you do look great. How do you feel?
It's been so long since I was able to do that.
I feel like this is why me and Harry got booked for this episode.
Yeah.
My hair looks like Prue! Oh, wow.
You look like a rough member of Status Quo. Yeah.
# Whatever you want... #
We've put some famous celebrity mullets on some familiar faces,
so see if you can guess who the mullet actually really belongs to.
Here's the first one.
OK, whose mullet might that be, then?
Oh, it does look like David Bowie. David Bowie.
Do you think it's David Bowie?
OK, let's look.
Yes! Well done.
Ziggy Stardust there.
Right. Next up, whose mullet is this?
Ooh, is that Limahl?
Oh, that's Limahl! It is Limahl, I think.
Let's just check.
It's Limahl, yeah. Congratulations.
OK, whose mullet is this?
Kylie Minogue?
Sportsman? Could be Miley Cyrus.
Miley Cyrus isn't a sportsman.
Oh, sorry. Sportsman.
Oh! Tennis player? John McEnroe? Billie Jean King?
Let's have a look. I heard it in the audience.
Well done, Andre Agassi there, yeah. And whose mullet is this?
Er, yes. Is it Luther Vandross? Luther Vandross?
Do you think? No, no, no, no! Barry White. Barry White.
Oh! Well, let's have a little look.
It's Billy Ray Cyrus, Miley's dad.
Oh, yeah! Wow!
So, Iain, stay with us,
because Tom's on his way with a special gift for you.
See you in a bit.
Welcome back. I'm here with Melvin,
Harry, Paul, plus, of course Iain.
Now, let's take a few moments
to stare at the random body parts of a celebrity
while they potter about in their kitchen.
See if you can identify this week's Mystery Star Baker.
Who's that? Is it the guy from the Go Compare advert?
Moustache... Yeah, there was a moustache.
A Mexican-style moustache. Yeah.
Oh. Is it Simon Cowell?
Yeah, but the sort of moustache...
Who's got a moustache who's really famous?
Not Colonel Gaddafi. Um...
LAUGHTER
The guy that it is, he didn't actually...
He hasn't actually got a moustache. He doesn't have a moustache?
He shaved it off. It's a stick-on one. No!
Where did we see the moustache?
There's no bloody moustache involved at all!
Was that on a salt shaker or something?
I don't know what that was all about.
Honestly, don't ask me. Keir Starmer's too busy. Er...
I'm going to give you a big clue. Comedian.
Comedian?
Right, well, that helped.
Let's find out.
Oh! Doesn't look like Julian at all.
Back to you, Iain, and here's Tom with his trolley.
Hi! Hi!
Hello, Iain. Uh, well, before we go any further,
would you tell us what your favourite bit was
about being on this year's Bake Off?
Oh, no.
I think jumping out of the tent was a really liberating experience.
Oh, yes. Yeah. And the fact that I didn't fall flat on my face
really meant a lot. Yeah, that was impressive. Yeah.
I'm glad that was your highlight from...
Yeah.
Well, Iain, I'm afraid the time has come for you to say goodbye.
What a shame. Just think what might have been,
had you not split your cheesecake.
But we've all been there. God knows I have.
Oh, I was in A&E for hours.
But at least now you can look forward to your wedding
to the beautiful Dervla.
And who knows, I might even join you on your honeymoon.
Not too hot, mind. I don't want to end up like a Basque cheesecake,
all burnt on top and wobbly in the middle.
Thank you again, Iain, for being such a wonderful,
wonderful, short king addition to this year's Bake Off.
Aw!
Thanks, Tom. And now, Iain,
here's a look back at your brilliant achievements in the tent.
It feels surreal.
I'm on Bake Off and Paul is going to be judging my bread.
Let's go for it. The bake looks great.
Superb. Love the flavours.
It's very complicated, but it's absolutely beautiful.
Yes, Iain! Yes, Iain!
That is one mighty impressive-looking Swiss roll.
It's delicious.
I really like that. Now we're cooking with gas.
Oh, my God. In first place, we have this one.
It's just fallen apart.
HE SIGHS
That's incredible.
It looks like something straight out of Lord Of The Rings.
It's really clever.
I'm not repeating Bingate.
I'm very proud of making it this far.
I never thought I'd make it past the first couple of weeks,
so to make it to the quarterfinals, that's great.
I've made really, really good friends,
and it's just been fantastic.
Aw!
CHEERING
OK. Tom, please reveal all. Oh.
DRUM ROLL
APPLAUSE
There you are
with your Queen's University Swiss roll Bingate bake
and Glenariff fondue.
Iain, everyone!
MORE CHEERING
So, it's time to round off with the Extra Slice celebrity challenge.
Let's find out what they'll be taking on.
It's over to the Selector-Tron.
So it's the return of Table Manners.
Each of our guests has an identical table in front of them set for tea.
You've all seen the classic trick.
Their job is to whip the tablecloth off the table,
whilst keeping as many items on the table as they can.
They get a point for every item left on the table,
and if the photo of Prue
is still face up on the table,
they'll get a bonus of five points.
Now, Paul, you haven't got much to beat.
Let's just remind ourselves
of Prue's interesting technique when she took on the challenge.
OK, Melvin, are you ready, because you're up first. OK.
Right, when you're ready.
Oh!
I like the technique.
Loved the technique, though, Melvin.
Oh!
Yeah. A lot of skill, I liked that. Well done, Melvin.
OK, so that's seven things left on the table.
Um, Harry... Ready. Off you go.
Oh!
Come on, guys.
See, I loosened it first.
And you've got one, two, three,
four, five, six, seven, eight,
nine and ten, although you would have got a bonus
if Prue had been left facing up.
You did very well there on ten.
Well done, well done, well done.
And finally, Paul, you've got ten to beat
so you can fly a helicopter.
How hard could this be?
When you're ready.
Don't be nervous.
Oh!
OK. Prue's facing up.
Let's have a look at the slow-mo replay.
It looked like it was going to be more, and then it bounced.
Are they individual? Yeah, are they individual, the strawberries?
They must be individual.
I'm afraid they are, Melvin.
You've got 13, plus Prue is left facing up for this occasion,
and so you get the bonus of five.
That's 18 points, Paul. Well done.
CHEERING
So that means... Oh, Paul's got a problem.
Isn't it 14 plus five as a bonus because it's still on the table?
It doesn't matter because you've won, so shut up.
For God's sake, we've all got things to get on with.
So that means the winner of our Extra Slice Celebrity Challenge
is Paul Hollywood!
And that's it for this week.
A huge thanks to Tom, Iain
and to our celebrity guests Melvin Odoom, Harry Hill
and Paul Hollywood.
See you at the same time next week for the Bake Off semifinal.
Goodbye!
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