We take a look back at some of the best Great British Bake Off eye candy to enter the tent
TONIGHT'S episode of The Great British Bake Off won’t be quite so sweet.
And that’s because the Channel 4 show has lost its eye candy.
Handsome Tom Hetherington, 29, was voted off in caramel week, disappointing hordes of fans.
But just what is it about a man who bakes that makes him so desirable?
Fab Daily EMILY FAIRBAIRN tells why she loves a bloke who gives her flours – and picks her favourite bit of crumpet from past shows.
WOMEN have always loved a man who appreciates a good set of buns.
No, not those buns.
I’m talking the stodgy fresh-out-of-the-oven kind – and any other delicious baked goods beside.
There’s something extremely attractive about a man who bakes.
It’s why Twitter goes into meltdown after every episode of Bake Off, and .
We just can’t help going dough-eyed over men who understand that cake, not music, is the food of love.
How else do you explain the fact that GBBO judge Paul Hollywood – an entirely unappealing man in almost every other sense – has so many female admirers?
He is an unlikely sex symbol yet still managed to pull glamorous co-star Marcela Valladolid, his fellow judge on the American version of Bake Off.
Despite his affair with Marcela, wife Alexandra took “old blue eyes” back.
Perhaps she found she couldn’t live without his homemade sausage rolls.
Paul’s secret is that he understands a man who knows his way around an oven is the hottest thing going.
Baking requires patience, attention to detail and creativity.
A baker will be in tune with his appetite and good with his hands – all qualities we want our men to have, and not just in the kitchen.
But above all else, there are many women who – like me – are not ashamed to admit that the way to our heart is through our stomachs.
Luckily, my boyfriend understands my needs.
Every day, he has dinner waiting for me when I walk through the front door.
Is there anything more romantic than being presented with a steaming hot plate of food after a long day at work? I think not.
It more than makes up for the fact he never buys me flowers.
In fact, on Valentine’s Day he bought me flours instead – one plain and one of the self-raising variety – as a “joke”.
I was delighted because I knew that before long, that flour would be in a tasty tart.
Red roses are nice but you can’t eat them.
Food and sex will always be tied up together because both are meant to satisfy us.
It’s why we always get so giggly over the famous Bake Off innuendos, and why female viewers don’t just drool over the show’s cakes, but the blokes that make them.
Every series there is at least one delicious man in the tent to tickle our tastebuds, and this year is no different.
Lovely architect Tom who baked amaretto kisses one week and gilded a pear in another, had stiff competition from hunky Steven.
The chiselled mummy’s boy’s baking is inventive – even rustling up a perfect handbag from sourdough bread.
The pair of them join a veritable hall of fame of Great British hotties, who gave a new meaning to the phrase “food porn”.
From chilled out Selasi Gbormittah, who caused a nationwide meltdown when he piped his cream seductively, to sensitive James Morton who somehow made Fair Isle sweaters look sexy, we’ve had our fair share of crumpets.
It’s sad that we may never see Tom lovingly squeeze an icing bag again.
But we are blessed to live in an age when men are putting on their pinnies and giving us girls what we want.
So fire up your ovens, lads.
Because a man who kneads is a man you need.
