Great British Bake Off airs ‘controversial scenes’ helped by Matt Lucas by Paul Hollywood

The Great British Bake Off aired some controversial scenes tonight as Paul Hollywood stepped in to help Matt Lucas on Channel 4’s Stand Up To Cancer special. Matt filled in for one of the remaining celebrities. short

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The Great Celebrity Bake Off: Paul helps Matt knead the dough

The Great British Bake Off screened some ‘controversial’ scenes this evening as Paul Hollywood helped out Matt Lucas.

The Channel 4 show returns tonight for a celebrity special featuring Annie Mac, Ed Gamble and Example, where Matt had to step in for a grill when one of the other stars had to pull out at the last minute.

Minutes later, however, other bakers were surprised to see Matt get some help from Paul as he tried making Arsenal-themed cookies as part of the show’s first challenge. .

He had only known a few minutes earlier that he was coming in as a baker and not as a presenter.

In scenes that aired on tonight’s show, Paul stepped in to help Matt as he tried to mix his cookies together. Matt clearly struggled with it all, so judge Paul helped out in an unprecedented moment on the show.

His colored glass cookies, which feature the Arsenal logo and have red plates on them, are made from boiled candies that have been reduced to sugar syrup and left to cool to form pine cookies. bright.

After the round, things got even more controversial when Paul handed one of the infamous Hollywood handshakes to Matt.

Prue Leith was unsure of her decision, and even tried to push Paul’s hand away, but in the end the pair decided to shake hands and Matt was overjoyed to have finally received the honor he had given him. seen many times.

Matt even took the top spot in the technical challenge when he made donuts with jam filling and red icing.

The other stars competing did not receive a handshake, despite impressing with their various cakes including their amazing Showstopper novelty cake. Example’s Australian themed cake saw him win this week’s show.

Matt previously revealed how he got into the baking business.

“I was forced by my bosses to bake a cake at the last minute when one of the bakers wasn’t around. I can’t tell you how happy I was that my humiliation was recorded. picture,” Matt recently said of his transition to baking.

The example described Matt as a “soldier” for entering the show last minute.

“I think it’s fair to play with him because a lot of people will think maybe he wants to do this and he doesn’t want to do it because he wasn’t prepared,” he explained, “I was told. it’s me, Annie Mac, Ed Gamble and Martine McCutcheon and I go there and Martine doesn’t.”

He added: “I’m pretty sure Matt Lucas jumped at the last minute because he clearly intended to be one of the presenters. He found out the morning we started filming, so he’s the real soldier in all of this.”