Stylist’s Amy Adams explains why she champions Tamal Ray – the full-of-flavour breakout star from this year's GBBO

Last week, Tamal Ray was crowned star baker after seven weeks in the tent.

It had been on the cards for a while and finally, Victorian week belonged to the trainee anaesthetist. His game pie got the second Paul Hollywood handshake of the series, his fruit bread was described as a ‘nice cake that’ and his Charlotte Russe was a twin-jelly layer feat of engineering.

Tamal admitted that becoming star baker had been one of his secret aims of the series – along with not getting voted out in week one and making something tasty (so modest!).

But we think Tamal could go a lot further than this.

Here’s five reasons why we think the 29-year-old would be a worthy winner of this year’s Great British Bake Off (and you won’t find one mention of his little chuckle or twinkly eyes…).

An ode to Tamal Ray, the breakout star of this year's Great British Bake Off