Dog lover and Great British Bake Off contestant Lizzie Ackers has revealed the first thing she did after leaving the Bake Off tent in the quarter final.
Liverpudlian Lizzie left the show in week eight of the competition, during free-from week, after using her final showstopper to celebrate her neurodiversity.
Leaving the show, she told Paul Hollywood: “I can’t wait to go and walk my dog to be honest.”
And that’s exactly what she did after packing up her baking gear and leaving the tent where she’d enjoyed two months of learning, friendship and cake.
Sharing an adorable reunion photo with Prudence, her Bedlington terrier, she said: “When I drove home from Bake Off, I drove straight to the park to see Prudence. She done a massive run to me which had me feeling like I was in a romcom.”
The clip that followed saw the curly haired pup bounding across a grassy field towards her owner, nearly bowling her over.
The two-year-old dog has her own Instagram account with over 6,000 followers, and has been described as a 50 percent “lamb impersonator”, 35 percent “attention seeker”, 10 percent “mayhem causer” and five percent “ball thief” by her loving owner.
The account’s most recent snap is a photo of Pru looking out of the window of her Halewood home, captioned: “Can you spot me this was the day my mum left me for bake off.”
Paul Hollywood described her dairy-free ice cream sandwiches as ‘good but messy’, while Prue Leith said she’d ‘never seen anything’ like her fuzzy free-from showstopper that celebrated Lizzie’s ADHD.
But her somewhat chaotic baking style is something she’s been able to learn to accept.
She told her 26.9k Instagram followers: “It was amazing to see such a positive response to Neurodiversity; 1 in 7 people in the UK are affected by it. I’m made up that people felt represented and could relate to my brain fuzz cake.
“I was lucky enough to be diagnosed whilst still in primary school, giving me years to adjust and be accepting of myself and accepting of the times I need to ask for help and accepting of my messy baking style.
“I honestly see my differences as a positive as they let me look at life in a different light. I hope people can start to see their differences as a positive too.”
