Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer saw four brand new celebrities enter the renowned white baking tent on Sunday, April 2 in a bid to impress Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith. Yet while Radio 1 DJ Adele Roberts, Olympic diver Tom Daley and actor David Morrissey created dishes that raised compliments, comedian Lucy Beaumont created a bake that Paul described as being on its way to "inedible".
But that didn't stop viewers of the Channel 4 show from howling at her hilarious comments and warm attitude to the show with many calling for a spin-off featuring the star.
Presented by Matt Lucas and Noel Fielding - Matt's final hurrah in the baking tent before Alison Hammond takes over from him, read more on that here - the show sees different celebrities enter the grounds each week to test their baking abilities to raise money for the charity Stand Up To Cancer.
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This week, viewers watched on as the four celebrities were tasked with making a quiche, eight bourbon biscuits and a showstopper that depicted their dream day off. While Adele was inspired by going to the cinema with a peanut butter popcorn cake, David's took inspiration from his love of football.
Meanwhile Tom - loved for his penchant for knitting - made a cake with 'balls' of yarn decorated on top and actress and comedian Lucy went for a more challenging scene: going to an all you can eat carvery dinner with Tom Hardy and Idris Elba.
Consisting of a tower of chilli chocolate sponges between which sat chocolate buttercream, Idris and Tom were made from fondant icing and were sat next to a Yorkshire pudding table. However, this vision didn't quite come to life and, once assembled, the cakes soon collapsed into a mound, forcing Lucy to get creative - all while spitting out hilarious one-liners that caused viewers at home to fall about in stitches.
Upon serving up the cake to Paul and Prue, Lucy said: "Please don't judge me. Judge the cake." Prue queried with a smile: "So Lucy. That's your favourite day out? If we asked you for your worst nightmare, then I think you'd win."
Tapping Lucy's creation - which made a rather loud noise - Paul exclaimed: "That's your cake! That's your sponge!" Taking a bite, Paul was seen immediately spitting out the sponge onto the plate as he told Lucy: "I wouldn't say it's inedible but it's on the way... the cake is exceptionally hard. I've never had a cake like it. It's bizarre." "I don't know what to say, Lucy. Except thank you very much," Prue added.
This disastrous entry comes soon after Lucy's bourbon biscuits also received rather poor comments from the judges, taking last place.
Yet despite her below average baking abilities, fans of the show appreciated her sharp wit and took to Twitter to implore Channel 4 to make a spin-off show with Lucy in it or even for her to be a co-host of the show.
Twitter user @vamplacey asked: "Can Lucy come on and bake EVERY SINGLE TIME please #GBBOTwitter", alongside @TheresTJP who wrote: "Y’all. There needs to be a Lucy spinoff series. For reals. #gbbo",
@FreakyLilReader also commented: "Oh poor Lucy @LucyABeaumont You have made this weeks #GBBO though, would have been boring without you."
A third, @kissthealderman, added: "i have never laughed so hard at anything more than lucy beaumont on su2c bake off i am i cannot breathe" while a fourth, @dominic4346, said: "Well Lucy would be my winner. Legend status. #GBBO" before adding: "Lucy is an agent of baking chaos #GBBO".
Later on in the show, when deciding who would be winner - spoiler, it was David Morrissey - Prue told the comedy presenters: "I will never forget Lucy's cake for as long as I live", before Paul said it was one of the worst cakes they'd ever seen in the tent.
Great Celebrity Bake Off For Stand Up To Cancer continues on Sunday, April 9 on Channel 4 and 7:40pm.
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