From the start I reckoned Kimberley (who can cook for me anytime) but Ruby has been terrific _ what beautiful eyes - I reckon it's between them two though Frances, is it, has Cauliflower canapes that look divine (but I love cauliflower).

Incidentally the two girl hosts whose names escape me are tremendous.

Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc.

This is going over to BBC1 next series. That's one of the mysteries of the universe: even now, in this multi-channel age, there appear to be millions of people who will not watch something on BBC2 but will happily watch it if it moves over on to BBC1. Bizarre. You could just about understand it back in the days when BBC2 was a genuinely different, more challenging, channel, but it's not now thanks to the idiot who decided to create BBC Four to do BBC2's job less effectively for an even smaller audience.


The BBC2 executive responsible for Great British Bake Off has lamented the almost serial poaching of hit shows by BBC1, but said that as a "good soldier", it is part and parcel of the way the corporation operates.

Janice Hadlow, the controller of BBC2, has admitted that she is "sad" to see the somewhat unlikely hit baking show move to BBC1.

"I'm sad to see it go, I won't pretend I'm not," she said, speaking on BBC Radio 4's Media Show. "It's been a great show to have on BBC2. I've loved my time working with it, I think it is one of my favourite shows."

Great British Bake Off is following a well-trod path of shows that have become hits on BBC2 moving to the more mass-market BBC1, including MasterChef, The Apprentice, and Miranda.

"I am a good soldier and a grown up person and I realise when you have a show doing sometimes 7 million viewers we have an obligation, if you like, to put it on a channel where there is a chance that even more people will find and enjoy it," she said. "Actually, it is a condition of being a controller of BBC2 that sometimes you see programmes that you love get on the escalator and move up to the next level".

Can't be doing with Ruby....too insecure and high maintenance of the reassurance factor....didn't think she'd baked enough in the semi to getthrough.....but thats just me. The swiss roll / custard cake thing (the brain looking cake) was her disaster and she still got through