Everyone remembers where they were the day that Prue Leith unveiled Sophie Faldo as the winner of Bake Off 2017 a whopping 12 hours before the episode aired. This writer, for example, was sat at her desk as she pondered which delicious baked good to serve up alongside the finale (it’s not GBBO unless you’re eating a cherry bakewell or something, after all).

Naturally, fans were more than a little upset with the cooking expert for spoiling the final episode for them – with Paul Hollywood admitting that he himself was “horrified” when he learned what his colleague had done.

Joining Jo Brand for the post-finale edition of The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice, Hollywood smirked when Brand quipped: “Unfortunately, Prue can’t be with us because she’s too busy deleting her Twitter account.

“Paul, what did you make of that?”

“What can you say?” the baker laughed. “I was horrified. At the same time, she made a mistake.”

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