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BBC / Love Productions/Mark Bourdillon / Love Productions/Mark Bourdillon
THE DAILY MAIL HAS a new target – and it’s the squeaky clean BBC institution, the Great British Bake Off.
After last week’s super tense semi-final, we were left with three very capable bakers: Nadiya, Tamal, and Ian.
But DM columnist Amanda Platell thinks that they made the final not on their talent, but on political correctness gone mad. Mmm hmm.
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Dave Thompson / PA Wire / PA Wire
Platell (who isn’t a stranger to offending people) penned a short article about the programme for yesterday’s paper, saying 20-year-old Flora Shedden was booted out last week for not being “PC enough” for the BBC.
We are left with Muslim mum Nadiya Hussain, gay doctor Tamal Ray, and New Man Ian Cumming. Poor Flora Shedden never stood a chance. She was far too middle class – and was booted off this week after her chocolate carousel was deemed sub-standard. Perhaps if she’d made a chocolate mosque, she’d have stood a better chance.
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The article has found virtually no favour on Twitter, with people calling it “nauseating” and asking how anyone who actually watched the show could think this way:
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Nauseated by Mail where Amanda Platell says Flora kicked out of #GBBO for being too posh & would have survived if made a chocolate mosque
Others are hoping the finalists go all out, PC-wise, just to anger Platell even further:
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Showstopper idea for the finale: Nadiya, Tamal and Ian must bake a cake made out of rainbows and smiles, and we’ll all eat it and be happy. Just a thought.
Friday 8 November, 2024
Friday 8 November, 2024
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People are not impressed with this 'racist' Daily Mail article about GBBO
THE DAILY MAIL HAS a new target – and it’s the squeaky clean BBC institution, the Great British Bake Off.
After last week’s super tense semi-final, we were left with three very capable bakers: Nadiya, Tamal, and Ian.
But DM columnist Amanda Platell thinks that they made the final not on their talent, but on political correctness gone mad. Mmm hmm.
Platell (who isn’t a stranger to offending people) penned a short article about the programme for yesterday’s paper, saying 20-year-old Flora Shedden was booted out last week for not being “PC enough” for the BBC.
The article has found virtually no favour on Twitter, with people calling it “nauseating” and asking how anyone who actually watched the show could think this way:
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Some are proud of how diverse the show is this year:
Others are hoping the finalists go all out, PC-wise, just to anger Platell even further:
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Showstopper idea for the finale: Nadiya, Tamal and Ian must bake a cake made out of rainbows and smiles, and we’ll all eat it and be happy. Just a thought.
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