Some “very large nuts”, “a nipple here, a nipple there” and the “powerful” image of Paul Hollywood wearing nothing but an apron: biscuit week on the Great British Bake Off is back to its bawdy best.
Two years ago, Paul and fellow judge Prue Leith said the show – famed for its soggy bottoms – would tone down the innuendo, as “it’s not the be-all and end-all in Bake Off”.
But tonight’s episode sees everyone in the tent collapse in a heap of giggles as Prue tells one baker: “I worried a bit about your very large nuts.”
Later, Matt Lucas tells a contestant that the two halves of his orb resemble breasts, and advises him to place “a nipple here, a nipple there” if his intended teapot shape goes wrong.
Noel Fielding goes even further, informing one baker of a dream he’d had about Paul the night before.
“He was just in an apron,” said Noel, mischievously. “It was pretty powerful.”
When the show aired on the BBC, it became famous for ex-hosts Mel and Sue’s cheeky quips, as well as clips of a rather well-endowed squirrel, which Channel 4 used on marketing material when the format swapped broadcasters.
Prue later insisted the smutty insinuations always occurred naturally, saying, aptly, in 2018: “We don’t cook them up.”
Bake Off airs tonight at 8pm on C4.
