New Great British Bake Off episode is laden with 13 innuendos in first 20mins, tears and a lot of booze
THE GREAT British Bake Off is back and is boozier and more filthy than ever.
The first episode of the new series, which airs tonight, is laden with innuendo from the word go - including a joke about a sex toy within 20 seconds.
The BBC1 show, watched by more than 15 million last series, contained a huge 13 innuendoes in the opening segment where contestants were tasked to create their signature bake.
It also features a cake so full of gin that judge Mary Berry, 81, joked it would make her tipsy.
Bake Off hosts Mel Giedroyc, 48, and Sue Perkins, 46, were the main culprits of the saucy comments - with the latter cracking a crude joke during the show’s intro.
As fellow host Mel looks through a picnic basket and "finds" something she shouldn’t, Sue jokes: “That’s from home, don’t touch it. I don’t know why that’s there, sorry.”
A glut of comments with naughty undertones then followed - with the hosts taking great pleasure in their advice to keep their bakes “moist”.
The word was repeated a further five times in quick succession during the course of the first signature challenge - where the amateur bakers are allowed to reproduce a recipe they’ve practised at home.
Sue later tells nurse Kate to “put your purple ring where I can see it” and at one point threatens to strip off on camera.
Her co-host Mel then tells Paul, 50, and Mary: “I’m going to be naked from the waist down.”
When Welsh hairdresser Louise puts two mounded cake pieces round-side up, Sue jokes: “They look lovely. They’re the sort of Page 3 of drizzle.”
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Later, in the blind challenge, Sue tells show star Paul Hollywood, 50, to leave the tent, and adds: “Off to the soft play area. Don’t injure yourself on the balls.”
During the signature bake, amateur baker and arts worker Tom Gillford, makes a topping out of gin and tonic water.
He makes the mixture so strong Sue and the two judges are unable to speak.
Sue says: “I can’t feel my face anymore.”
Mary then jokes about his uneven distribution of gin, adding: “Thank goodness we haven’t got down to the bottom as we wouldn’t be able to tell the tale.”
Strong alcohol isn’t the only thing that startles Paul and Mary’s tastebuds.
University student Michael Georgiou uses trendy new ingredient Matcha tea - which is similar green tea.
She tells the hopeful: “I don’t like the flavour – it tastes grassy to me.”
As well as booze and crude jokes, there were also tears.
Emotional Benji broke down after her sauce turned runny in the Showstopper segment and had to be comforted by Sue, while PE teacher Candice cried after Mary and Paul slammed her bake.