GBBO Semi final: Did the right person go?

The Great British Bake Off semi-finals were a teary affair, with only Mel and Sue's mini operettas and a Hollywood Handshake (a rare thing) to temper the heightened emotions in the baker's tent.

As the bun fight began, everyone's eyes were on serially under-confident student baker Ruby Tandoh, and the show's judge Paul Hollywood, who've both been teased on Twitter this week for their cringe flirting on the show.

But as the competition went on it became clear that this time, Ruby's concern that her baking wasn't up to scratch was actually on the money and no amount of pouting could convince Hollywood and his co-judge Mary Berry to let her off lightly this time.

But she was in luck. Despite her canapes not being as full or as domed as Paul would have liked, her Charlotte Royale resembling 'gooey brains' (thanks for that image Sue) and her Opera Cake full of 'issues', Ruby narrowly managed to avoid the chop.

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Instead, lovely Welsh baker Beca was sent packing, after Paul and Mary found her synthetic banana-flavoured opera cake not up to scratch.

Paul's harshly concluded: “It’s not banana, it’s artificial banana. And it’s a gravelly banana. It’s quite grainy.” (No we don't know what he means either.)

Viewers' response was divided, with many claiming that keeping the thrice-Star Baker in the competition was the wrong decision after the Charlotte Royale fiasco.

In another highlight of the show, style-over-substance baker Frances finally shed her epithet, as her flavours earned her nothing less than a Hollywood handshake.

Speaking to student newspaper The Tab earlier this week, Ruby denied any sexual chemistry between herself an Paul (glad to hear it), but admitted he's not as harsh off camera. She said: "He has to play the bad cop on screen, but off screen he’s lovely."

Ruby and Frances join Kimberley (who clearly did not enjoy Paul's 'constructive criticism' at this stage in the proceedings) for the show's final.

Ruby and Kimberley have split viewers opinion over the past weeks with many finding Kimberley's self-confidence infuriating. Perhaps somehwere between Ruby's utter lack of confidence in her baking ability and Kimberley's smugness, we'd have the perfect Bake Off contentsant. And we reckon that could be Frances (plus according to our scientific working out, she's favourite).

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