Bake Off Final disaster as elaborate showstopper sparks nightmare for one star (2024)

Great British Bake Off finalists Christiaan de Vries, 34, Georgie Grasso, 34, and 20-year-old Dylan Bachelet have made it all the way to the end of the Channel 4 TV baking contest but there's plenty of time for things to go horribly wrong

The Great British Bake Off Final airs tonight - and here’s a sneak peak that reveals fan favourite Dylan Bachelet has a race against time to get his showstopper finished.

For the very last challenge of the series, finalists Christiaan de Vries, 34, Georgie Grasso, 34, and 20-year-old Dylan are tasked with creating an elaborate hanging celebration cake. And presenter Alison Hammond does nothing to calm the nerves as she reminds them: “This is the bake between winning or losing.”

As the three finalists show off all the skills they’ve finessed over the past ten weeks in a bid to impress judges Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith, Dylan struggles with the consistency of his genoise sponge.

He despairs: “It’s the bottom where the problem is - you can see these clumps of flour.” As the skateboarding baker from Buckinghamshire starts to cut them out, he knows he is losing vital minutes on the clock. While Christiaan and Georgie start putting the finishing touches on their masterpieces, poor Dylan is still getting his cakes out of the oven. “I still have a whole cake I need to crumb-coat and layer,” he stresses. ”I’m not going to get everything I want done.”

But he’s not the only one feeling the pressure. At one point mum-of-three Georgie goes to the back of the tent - but forgets what she went for. “What am I doing here?” she asks out loud. “What did I come over here for?”

Georgie says her final showstopper was “the most challenging bake I’ve ever done”. She confessed: “When I saw the brief I thought, game over. It took a lot of thought and planning to be able to make it work. I practised about three times. I really wanted the judges to get a true reflection of me in the bake, with my colours and flavours. The most stressful element was by far the construction along with the time."

The children’s nurse, who has ADHD and lives in Carmarthenshire with her husband, three children and lots of animals, chooses a floral theme. “Some people like thin cakes - I prefer a big wedge of cake, a big wedge of filling,”she tells viewers. And as she hand paints flowers onto her masterpiece she laughs: “ This is like an oil painting.”

Last week’s semi-final star baker Christiaan, who moved to London from the Netherlands seven years ago, is going for an abstract, origami-inspired design for his cake. While his time-keeping goes better than Dylan’s, the fashion designer admits to Alison that he isn’t actually “enjoying” the final, laughing: “That’s a big word.”

But he is thrilled that he applied for the show and made it all the way to the end. “A year ago, I wasn’t in the best place—I was job hunting and felt a bit lost without a clear goal in mind. I needed something to reignite my spirit and lift me up.”

He says making the final is a huge achievement. “As much as you feel the pressure, there is also a strange sense of relaxation that washed over me,” he explained. “It was the knowing that you’ve made it to the final, to the final episodes. No matter what happened, you knew you had made it to the end, and that you’ve been able to showcase all the bakes that you practice at home. It felt just insane.”

Dylan, from Buckinghamshire, has international roots thanks to his Indian mum and Japanese-Belgian dad and has earned an army of internet fans through his baking skills and model looks. He says being on the show has taken him one step closer to his chosen career of becoming a chef and reckons he “loved” chatting with Alison and co-presenter Noel Fielding during the challenges - even if he was often often on autopilot. "When I watch back the show, I’m thinking, ‘I don’t remember saying that’,” he laughed.

Only one baker can be crowned the winner of The Great British Bake Off 2024 - tune in at 8pm on Channel 4 to see which of the trio will triumph.

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