Yaaaaaaaaaay Richard is star baker
Tirimasu man is called Richard ... I will make my banner!!
He had to go.......fit of petulance
Originally Posted by Kaytee:
Originally Posted by Baz:
They seem to be excusing quite a lot tonight
It must be because of the heat in the tent
it was ridiculously hot back then
well pleased he's gone but not pleased how he went 
Off to watch 'Sleeping with the Enemy'. Good night, all
Originally Posted by Rexi:
Tirimasu man is called Richard ... I will make my banner!!
Originally Posted by Kaytee:
He had to go.......fit of petulance
that's not petulance - I'd have make her swan fly.....
Originally Posted by Dame_Ann_Average:
well pleased he's gone but not pleased how he went
Hollywood was right, bring what you've done.
See most of you over the road....and to those who wont be going, night night
night all - time for BB
*follows AKT*
Night night the rest of you 
Night all - thanks
night all...see you next week 
See you ...not doing CBB tonight xx
Bubeye
Fuming! Livid! Angry!
Too tired to rant, I'll come back tomorrow
Too tired to rant, I'll come back tomorrow
Originally Posted by ~Sweet Sequins~:
Fuming! Livid! Angry!
Too tired to rant, I'll come back tomorrow
Too tired to rant, I'll come back tomorrow
Did someone melt your ice cream too?
The Baked Alaska debacle has made it onto BBC radio news this morning. There has been an outcry apparently. The lady who turfed Ian's effort out of her freezer has denied sabotage!
Personally, I think it was more in edit than anything really bad Mrs Beard did..the ice cream was not set and wasn't likely too..she should have said here's your ice cream Ian, but didn't. More explanations here from Sue Perkins
The Great British Bake Off's stars have waded into "Bingate", which saw contestant Iain Watters booted off the show after he went into meltdown over a bad bake and tossed it in the bin.
Iain lost his cool and threw away his Baked Alaska after its ice cream filling failed to set and stormed out of the tent, leaving him with nothing to show to judges Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood.
Fans of the show tweeted their sympathy and outrage at Iain being voted off, with many rounding on fellow contestant Diana Beard, who had removed his effort from the freezer during the Baked Alaska challenge, but presenter Sue Perkins stood up for her.
Sue tweeted: "Iain's Alaska was out of the freezer for 40 secs. That's it. No sabotage. 40 secs of normal temp would NOT be enough to reduce it to liquid."
She continued: "I can't actually believe I'm wading into this... (And wading is the operative word...) Big love to @iain_watters anyhow. What a gent x
"All getting a little inflamed for my liking. Am off. This is a show about CAKES. Please, let's save the ire for real stuff. Peace & out x"
Paul added: "At the end of the day Mary & I need something to judge, it's not about melted ice cream but about what's presented to US... #bingate
"I'm glad Mary's not on twitter this would upset her.. #enoughnow"
But Iain himself was gracious in defeat, tweeting: "THANK YOU @BritishBakeOff it's been truly EPIC. What can I say guys - I had a #MELTDOWN. Thanks for the support. #BINCIDENT #GBBO".
During desserts week, the show's bakers had to make a self-saucing pudding, a tiramisu cake and then the tricky Baked Alaska - incorporating sponge and ice cream filling inside a merengue. Searing temperatures in the tent saw fillings melt and merengues wobble.
Iain said of his time on the BBC show: "My worst moment has to be 'bin-cident'. I didn't handle the pressure in the tent as well as everyone else. It was a very hot day with everyone fighting for space in the freezers, and I didn't feel that I coped with the situation very well.
"I am passionate as a personality and a baker, so I do tend to get frustrated when the bakes don't go well, and I will have to learn to deal with that."
Iain is the fourth contestant to go from the Bake Off after Jordan Cox, Claire Goodwin and Enwezor Nzegwu were voted off in previous weeks.
It's the lead story on the BBC website, now!
Personally, I think that Parliament needs to be recalled to try and sort this out
Originally Posted by Kaffs:
Originally Posted by Kaytee:
He had to go.......fit of petulance
that's not petulance - I'd have make her swan fly.....
I've only just caught up. She might have said sorry at least; she could have asked him to put it into a different freezer.
I honestly think it was edited to look worse than what actually happened, he phoned her three days later to tell her to watch out the knives were out...we don't even know if she said sorry because of the editing...its all for drama 
Mrs Beard said it had been edited to make it look as though she deliberately sabotaged her rival's chances by taking the dish - ice cream baked inside meringue - out of the freezer on purpose so it would melt.
She said today she was the victim of a 'stitch-up' by the BBC and sobbed after watching the episode - but did not reveal she had left so it was not spoiled for Bake Off fans.
A BBC spokesman told MailOnline: 'Diana will not appear in the rest of the series as she fell ill ahead of filming episode 5 earlier this year.
In the fallout from last night's show the BBC said it had received 556 complaints already from the eight million who watched - with some viewers branding her 'evil' when Watters left instead of her.
She also said that Iain had telephoned her to warn her that she would be in the firing line and burst into tears after watching the show last night.
'I've been stitched up, haven't I?', she told BBC Radio Shropshire.
She said: 'We were 12 amateur bakers, no prize money involved. Why would I want to sabotage Iain's Baked Alaska? I was very pleased to get through the first week - everything after that was a bonus.
'Iain does not hold me responsible at all for his failed ice cream. In fact, he rang me three days ago to warn me that the knives were out'.
Originally Posted by Baz:
I don't know if she did on purpose...or how long it was out of the freezer ....but she should never have taken it out without telling / asking him first ...and I found the fact that she never even apologised appalling! That being said m he did spit his dummy
I wonder how much is in the edit, after all the producers could have seen this as an opportunity to "sex-up" the programme and in some respects the furore seems to have garnered considerable copy.
Given that there appears to be some behind the scenes activities we don't see for example the judges having pre-filmed access to the contestants signature bakes I would not be surprised that the producers manage the series narrative as it goes along.
Originally Posted by Dame_Ann_Average:
I honestly think it was edited to look worse than what actually happened, he phoned her three days later to tell her to watch out the knives were out...we don't even know if she said sorry because of the editing...its all for drama
Mrs Beard said it had been edited to make it look as though she deliberately sabotaged her rival's chances by taking the dish - ice cream baked inside meringue - out of the freezer on purpose so it would melt.
She said today she was the victim of a 'stitch-up' by the BBC and sobbed after watching the episode - but did not reveal she had left so it was not spoiled for Bake Off fans.
A BBC spokesman told MailOnline: 'Diana will not appear in the rest of the series as she fell ill ahead of filming episode 5 earlier this year.
In the fallout from last night's show the BBC said it had received 556 complaints already from the eight million who watched - with some viewers branding her 'evil' when Watters left instead of her.
She also said that Iain had telephoned her to warn her that she would be in the firing line and burst into tears after watching the show last night.
'I've been stitched up, haven't I?', she told BBC Radio Shropshire.
She said: 'We were 12 amateur bakers, no prize money involved. Why would I want to sabotage Iain's Baked Alaska? I was very pleased to get through the first week - everything after that was a bonus.
'Iain does not hold me responsible at all for his failed ice cream. In fact, he rang me three days ago to warn me that the knives were out'.
I didn't think for a minute she wanted to sabotage him, it just seemed such a thoughtless thing to do. There's always some idiots who have to go overboard. As for Ian, I got the impression that he did initially blame her. I would have. 
I found it quite telling that Sue Perkins felt the need to explain...
Daily Telegraph report with Mary Berry confirming it was out for less than a minute
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/cul...-stitched-me-up.html
However, Mrs Beard was staunchly defended by her fellow contestants, as well as the Bake Off judges, who said the pudding had only been out of the freezer for only 40 seconds before it was seen melting.
Mrs Beard claimed she felt the âknives were outâ for her on the programme.
âThey painted me [as if] I have lost my integrity,â she told BBC Radio Shropshire. âAnybody that knows me knows I haven't that bone in my body. So I've been stitched up, haven't I?"
Martha Collison â who at 17 is the youngest contestant on the show â said: âThings are not always what they seem on TV, Diana is an absolute legend, and the lack of freezer space was none of the bakers fault [sic].â
Mr Cox said: âIt [the problem] was crap freezers. Poor Diana is a scapegoat for BBC.â
Berry described the claim that Mrs Beard had deliberately sabotaged the ice cream as "absolute rubbish."
She said: "It was very tense on the day because imagine: the sun was shining, it was a really warm day, and that was the day they were making ice cream. But they all tackled it well. Remember they're all in the same boat. And we had freezers and it's just a matter of managing them. And they had to get ahead right at the beginning.
âAnd Ian, it was so unfortunate, because he is without doubt a brilliant baker and we saw a great future for him, but if you can't present something at the end, what can we judge him on it?â
A BBC spokesman said: âAs shown in the episode, Iain became the fourth baker to leave the tent because he didn't present Mary and Paul with anything to judge in the show-stopper challenge and both judges were very clear about the reasoning behind the decision.
"Due to the extreme temperature in the tent that day, many of the bakers struggled to get their ice cream to set as seen in the episode. Diana removing Iain's ice cream from the freezer for less than a minute was in no way responsible for Iain's departure.â
Originally Posted by cologne 1:
Originally Posted by Dame_Ann_Average:
I honestly think it was edited to look worse than what actually happened, he phoned her three days later to tell her to watch out the knives were out...we don't even know if she said sorry because of the editing...its all for drama
Mrs Beard said it had been edited to make it look as though she deliberately sabotaged her rival's chances by taking the dish - ice cream baked inside meringue - out of the freezer on purpose so it would melt.
She said today she was the victim of a 'stitch-up' by the BBC and sobbed after watching the episode - but did not reveal she had left so it was not spoiled for Bake Off fans.
A BBC spokesman told MailOnline: 'Diana will not appear in the rest of the series as she fell ill ahead of filming episode 5 earlier this year.
In the fallout from last night's show the BBC said it had received 556 complaints already from the eight million who watched - with some viewers branding her 'evil' when Watters left instead of her.
She also said that Iain had telephoned her to warn her that she would be in the firing line and burst into tears after watching the show last night.
'I've been stitched up, haven't I?', she told BBC Radio Shropshire.
She said: 'We were 12 amateur bakers, no prize money involved. Why would I want to sabotage Iain's Baked Alaska? I was very pleased to get through the first week - everything after that was a bonus.
'Iain does not hold me responsible at all for his failed ice cream. In fact, he rang me three days ago to warn me that the knives were out'.
I didn't think for a minute she wanted to sabotage him, it just seemed such a thoughtless thing to do. There's always some idiots who have to go overboard. As for Ian, I got the impression that he did initially blame her. I would have.
Me too Cologne ...in fact the ice cream may have ended up ,accidentally ,on her head 
Crikey! I can't believe how huge the fall out from this is 
Even if it was only 40 seconds, she still shouldn't have done it and should have apologised when she realised what had happened. She didn't seem bothered by what was happening to him and if it was a case of us just not seeing an apology due to editing, surely we would have heard about it from everyone else involved.
I don't wish her any ill, i would hate to see her be unwell because of public internet trashing but even before bin gate, I had already thought she was smug and I didn't like her.
Even if it was only 40 seconds, she still shouldn't have done it and should have apologised when she realised what had happened. She didn't seem bothered by what was happening to him and if it was a case of us just not seeing an apology due to editing, surely we would have heard about it from everyone else involved.
I don't wish her any ill, i would hate to see her be unwell because of public internet trashing but even before bin gate, I had already thought she was smug and I didn't like her.
Originally Posted by ~Sweet Sequins~:
Crikey! I can't believe how huge the fall out from this is
Even if it was only 40 seconds, she still shouldn't have done it and should have apologised when she realised what had happened. She didn't seem bothered by what was happening to him and if it was a case of us just not seeing an apology due to editing, surely we would have heard about it from everyone else involved.
I don't wish her any ill, i would hate to see her be unwell because of public internet trashing but even before bin gate, I had already thought she was smug and I didn't like her.
Even if it was only 40 seconds, she still shouldn't have done it and should have apologised when she realised what had happened. She didn't seem bothered by what was happening to him and if it was a case of us just not seeing an apology due to editing, surely we would have heard about it from everyone else involved.
I don't wish her any ill, i would hate to see her be unwell because of public internet trashing but even before bin gate, I had already thought she was smug and I didn't like her.
Sweet, everyone concerned said she was not at fault, the BBC said she wasn't too blame Ian said she wasn't to blame, the ice cream was not setting..I'm more angry at the edit than her or him for storming off. She's 69 and been made to look a cheat and they wouldn't show an apology because they wanted it to look that way. I didn't like either of them, but that's not to say she should take the wrap for what happened
I hope she feels supported enough by all concerned. Do you know who's on the sister show tomorrow night?
Originally Posted by ~Sweet Sequins~:
I hope she feels supported enough by all concerned. Do you know who's on the sister show tomorrow night?
Bit late in the day for the BBC to say it wasn't her fault after they edited it to make it look that way, I hope she is ok 
Haven't a clue who is on tomorrow sweet, I keep forgetting to watch 
Originally Posted by Dame_Ann_Average:
Originally Posted by ~Sweet Sequins~:
I hope she feels supported enough by all concerned. Do you know who's on the sister show tomorrow night?
Bit late in the day for the BBC to say it wasn't her fault after they edited it to make it look that way, I hope she is ok Haven't a clue who is on tomorrow sweet, I keep forgetting to watch
It's bound to come up though
Originally Posted by Baz:
Originally Posted by Dame_Ann_Average:
Originally Posted by ~Sweet Sequins~:
I hope she feels supported enough by all concerned. Do you know who's on the sister show tomorrow night?
Bit late in the day for the BBC to say it wasn't her fault after they edited it to make it look that way, I hope she is ok Haven't a clue who is on tomorrow sweet, I keep forgetting to watch
It's bound to come up though
hopefully Baz
I've only seen it once but will tune in tomorrow
The 'Sun's' headline tomorrow 'Baking Bad'
I managed to catch up on Wednesday's show. No matter how little time Ian's ice cream was left out of the fridge, it was a particularly nasty thing for Diana to do, without warning him.