The sun sets before 8pm now, and people on the internet won’t stop talking about soup and pumpkin-flavoured drinks – which must mean that a new series of The Great British Bake Off is looming on the horizon, as fixed on the calendar as the end of British Summer Time itself.
This year’s wholesome batch of new bakers has now been announced ahead of next week’s start date – though, as we will see, only one will prove to have the steel-behind-the-eyes and cut-throat streak that it takes to be crowned as Britain’s Next Top Baker. Here is a guide to this year’s group, plus some wild aspersions I’ve cast about their potential runs on the show, based on very little other than their approved Channel 4 biographies. Let’s bake.
James, 25, Cumbria
(Top row, furthest left)
James describes his baking style as “child-friendly horror”, which, let’s face it, is an odd way to describe anything, let alone one’s baking style. The 25-year-old nuclear scientist says his favourite flavours are “anything autumnal”, so I expect he is probably really into Halloween. As a fellow…
