Nigella Lawson descends from the heavens to redeem The Great British Bake Off with her sacred double entendres
News that the food guru is to join the Channel 4 cookery show has sent journalists crackers
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Nigella Lawson to replace Prue Leith on Great British Bake Off
TV chef says she is ‘giddily grateful’ for opportunity
Great British Bake Off: This is television as metaphor for Britain’s anguished psyche
TV review: Outside the tent, Elizabeth is gone and Brexit is back. Inside, all is as it was, the sponges squishy, the lemon drizzle drizzly
Great British Bake Off: Meet this year’s contestants, including a tin-whistle playing Irish dancer
Paul Hollywood, Prue Leith, Matt Lucas and Noel Fielding return to the tent today. We rate their new batch of amateur bakers
The Great British Bake Off review: Remember when it was controversial?
TV: Paul Hollywood, Prue Leith, Noel Fielding and Matt Lucas return with 12 new contestants
Donald Clarke: How do we know autumn is here? The Great British Bake Off is back
Anna Beattie pitched for four years before the BBC took a punt in 2009
Emer McLysaght: Please, Great British Bake Off, heal our pandemic wounds with your creamy horns
The show returns on Tuesday and while it might not fix the world at least it brings joy
Great British Bake Off: wacky Matt Lucas joins wacky Noel Fielding. It’s terrifying
Patrick Freyne: Paul Hollywood has emerged from slumber and is hungry for power – and cakes
Great British Bake Off: How they got around social distancing in the tent
The whole of this series was filmed during the coronavirus outbreak – so what do we know so far about this determined group of bakers?
The Great British Bake Off: Who’ll take over from Sandi Toksvig?
We weigh up some possible contenders, from Nadiya Hussain to, er, Jeremy Paxman
Great British Bake Off: How to fix a show that’s gone sour
Now nasty at times show has lost what made it enjoyable to begin with – its gentleness
Great British Bake Off final: Drama and disaster. Paul Hollywood couldn’t bear it
Review: It was a dramatic and tearful end to a Bake Off year that fell flat
The Great British Bake Off: the nine greatest moments
As Bake Off returns for a 10th series on Tuesday, here are the highlights and controversies, from squirrel nuts to #Custardgate
The Great British Bake Off subtly prepares for post-Brexit living
The show’s idyllic setting sits outside the common market, part of no customs union
New ingredients for ‘The Great British Bake Off’, but does it taste the same?
After its controversial move from the BBC to Channel 4 this year, the baking show returns
The British ‘Bake Off’ is off. That’s not great
‘The Great British Bake Off’ is a terrible idea for a series. But it’s already an institution. Now it’s off to Channel 4 is the cream set to curdle?
Bake Off returns with perfect consistency
Paul Hollywood makes his come-to-bread eyes; Mary Berry’s hair is not for moving; this latest slice of Bake Off is exactly what you ordered
Q: What makes the Great British Bake Off so irresistible?
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