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Bake Off finalist attacks critics

Great British Bake Off finalist Ruby Tandoh has hit out at the "nastiness" and "misogyny" from the show's critics. The winner, Frances Quinn, said she was glad the final was not live, knowing what was going on in the press and social media.

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Bake Off finalist Ruby hits out at 'lazy misogyny'

One of the finalists in last night's Great British Bake Off has said she is surprised at the "nastiness" and "misogyny" generated by critics of the TV show.

Writing in a comment piece in The Guardian, Ruby Tandoh said: "Despite the saccharin sweetness of the Bake Off, an extraordinary amount of bitterness and bile has spewed forth every week from angry commentators, both on social media and in the press."

Great British Bake Off finalists Ruby, Kimberley and Frances Credit: Des Willie/BBC/PA Wire

Tandoh, 21, made the comments after a heated Twitter spat with the chef Raymond Blanc who criticised the show's "female tears".

"I don't care if you're a patisserie king - don't be an idiot," Ruby hit back.

The Great British Bake Off winner Frances Quinn with judges Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry Credit: BBC/PA Wire

She added in her article: "If a show as gentle as Bake Off can stir up such a sludge of lazy misogyny in the murky waters of the internet, I hate to imagine the full scale of the problem."

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