I was on Great British Bake Off and my Baked Alaska was sabotaged by my co-star but I blame the BBC, says Iain Watters

at the time, Iain said it was "unfair" the BBC show was edited to make Diana look bad.

She was hit by a torrent of abuse when the episode aired and left the show the same week over health concerns.

Iain said: "I feel bad for Diana because she's had quite a mauling on Twitter and I don't like all the nasty comments that have been directed towards her.

"I think it's a bit unfair and I do think they could have edited the episode a bit better."

He doesn't believe he should have left the competition that week.

"It was more of a technical error than a baking error and it maybe should have been taken into account a bit more," he continued.

"There was a lot of discussion afterwards off camera between the contestants and a lot of the bakers thought they shouldn't have thrown anyone off the show that week because of the way it happened.

Iain adds there were "quite a lot of tears on the day", but he has no regrets.

"I don't regret throwing it in the bin. I would do it again," he said.

"I didn't want to serve something in that state. I'm not a complete perfectionist but I'm someone who likes things to turn out as I intended them to. It was more frustration."

Bake Off host at the time Sue Perkins defended the incident, saying: "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."