On Your Marks, Get Set, Baaaaake! A Thread for Great British Baking Show / Bake Off & all of its sundry delights

Ik why. He's a man that bakes cakes.

he gay lol

good thing he didn't let his committed christianity get in the way of extra-maritally pumping his co-host on some american baking show or we'd have no surefire way of assessing his sexuality

the first time i saw paul hollywood i knew he was a hairy handed horn dog of the hetero variety

"I'm a Believer", claims Randy Scouse Git.

He's the OTHER bad Bootle meff.

'you'll never sleep alone' promises flour-handed lover from liverpool

why is this picture making me giggle:

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/9a/39/65/9a3965e746697c27690929da55607a01.jpg

It's British Cake, the UK reboot of American Pie.

He is soooooooo provincial.

paul hollywood, taker of cherries

Pass the brain-bleach!

paul hollywood, giver of nightmares

When Scottish Norman referred to Paul as "Mr. Hollywood," I thought he was remarking on Paul's fake tan and the likelihood of selling out, not that his actual last name was Hollywood.

the first time i saw paul hollywood i knew he was a hairy handed horn dog of the hetero variety

Yeah, yr gaydar must be in need of serious tweaking if you had any doubts about the Wolf of Wallasey.

xpost yeah I thought it was some show-offy stage name from the get go, I ended up looking him up online to find out if that was REALLY his actual name

Growing up with a name like that, no wonder he's kind of a wanker imo

I mean there's worse names but still, it's so dumb

However he has now poisoned any household discussion of bread in our house

We bought a loaf of crappy french bread from the supermarket and Mr Veg inspected a slice, pointed at a big airbubble and said 'it's overwehhhked'

and he doesn't even sit down and watch the show - he's just picked that up from wandering in and out while I'm bingewatching

as long as he doesn't start overgelling his hair and tucking shirts into dad jeans you should be okay

._.

http://www.newsbiscuit.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Paul-Hollywood-British-Baking.jpg

The internet is just too small to contain every awkward Paul Hollywood photo, but this might be my favourite

http://images.mcn.bauercdn.com/pagefiles/532919/hollywoodh21215.jpg

http://media.ticketmaster.co.uk/tm/en-gb/dbimages/43212a.jpg

http://www4.pictures.zimbio.com/bg/Paul+Hollywood+Celebrity+Social+Networking+aElLg6Sj0aEl.jpg

just everything that he does with his hands and upper body is like a weirdly posed mannequin

like what are you doing STOP IT IT'S WEIRD

https://www.driving.co.uk/s3/st-driving-prod/uploads/2015/06/Paul-Hollywood.jpg

wait

guys

are you ready

MY NAME IS PAUL HOLLYWOOD AND i'M HERE TO SAY

http://keyassets-p2.timeincuk.net/wp/prod/wp-content/uploads/sites/30/2015/10/paul-hollywood.jpg

amazing

It's like when you look at someone's dating profile and you think "of all the profile photos he could have chosen.... THIS ONE?"

also

http://images.radiotimes.com/uploads/images/original/26994.jpg

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/6e/d2/4f/6ed24f835fa75405102fbd6321b05e9e.jpg

hahaha xpost

oh god

facepalm

Thanks everyone, the show is ruined for me now.

And you couldn't have waited until I watched the Nadiya finale?

Nadiya finale makes everything ok, even weird Paul & his awkward-dad mannequin ways

I promise

sk8r boi paul hollywood is cracking me up, thx veg

We bought a loaf of crappy french bread from the supermarket and Mr Veg inspected a slice, pointed at a big airbubble and said 'it's overwehhhked'

― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, April 4, 2017 8:50 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

#truthlols

i don't get macaroons. why?

i agree! especially as an *added* decoration. Like flora putting them on her tart - idgi

Omg where did these tears come from?? ^____TT

😭😭😭😭

Tamal overall my favorite, he's so lovely and charming, but wow Nadiya's arc is some inspirational stuff.

Yeah she's so uplifing

Oh and sounds you brought it up before I began the season, I was on the look out for any Orientalizing of Tamal and Nadiya with regards to "flavor." She did bring in South Asian spices on a few occasions, but he largely stuck with ingredients and/or spices that I reckon would be familiar or traditional to western European baking. Dates, figs, cardamom, star anise (bleh) were probably the most exotic things he used.

I also remember the judges calling Ian the season's king of flavor.

That said, there's definitely something quietly uncomfortable about using flavor to signal otherness, especially with the bakers of Asian descent.

I love Mary Berry. There was a programme on TV about her life and she's so adorable. There was a bit where she talked about the death of her son though, which was just devastating. It made me love he even more. It's Called The Mary Berry Story. You may be able to find a torrent of it. If you can't then try tvchaos and if that isn't open for sign up then give me a shout as I have invites (it's for uk to torrents).

U.K. Tv torrents rather.

ooh I'll look for it. I'd love to learn about her life story

The A.V. Club interviews Martha

http://www.avclub.com/article/great-british-bake-s-martha-collison-polite-shows--254110