A deaf pastry chef and his colleague from a five-star hotel in Wales have been wowing the judges and audiences on the professional version of the Great British Bake Off .
Sam Widnall and Adam Cleal, who work together at the Palé Hall country house hotel in Bala, were the winning pair on this week's first show of the new series.
The pair communicate by writing notes to each other and have worked out a message system.
In the first episode of the new series, six teams of two faced two challenges over two days with the team at the bottom being sent home.
Sam and team captain Adam have only been working together for seven months, but they thrived on the challenges with a red velvet showpiece that the judges love.
But it obviously works because the judges said that the pair were in a "different league" across both challenges and they were the first to go through to the next round.
Judge Cherish Finden said: "It's a spoon of genius for me. I would take the whole cake home."
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Adam said that communicate using lots of texting and typing, and they write everything down so they both understand what they are doing. Adam has also been learning sign language.
Through a sign language interpreter, Sam told the judges: "We take it in turns, but we work on our strengths. The first thing he asked me teach him to sign was how to swear."
Adam, 22, is head pastry chef at the hotel, where he gave Sam his first full time job in patisserie.
After wining the first round, Sam signed: "I'm very happy, I want to go back and do it again."
Adam said:"We will enjoy this win until we get back to Palé Hall, and then it will be training, training, training for the next round."
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And it was not only the judges, viewers loved the Welsh pair too.
One wrote: "Congratulations to Adam and Sam! I'm so impressed by Sam who is profoundly deaf. So proud of them."
Another commented: "That deaf guy is cute and can sign so fast."
One mother wrote: "They were brilliant. As the mother of a deaf boy, I was really heartened to see signing and deafness presented as a non issue on the television."
She went on: "It shows there are no barriers to being deaf and sends a positive message without screaming about it. Absolutely brilliant!"
