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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 winner Frances relieved show was not live

The winner of the BBC's Great British Bake Off has said she is surprised by the huge amount of attention and controversy the programme has attracted on social media.

Bake Off winner Frances Quinn in the BBC Today show studio Credit: Twitter/@BBCr4today

Frances Quinn told Radio 4's Today programme: "I'm just so glad it wasn't actually going out live; having to go down there and film over a weekend knowing what was going on in the press and social media".

She said that she and the other contestants all got on well, even though "everyone is wanting to make out that we didn't".

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