The Great British Bake Off: episode five – as it happened

Noel Fielding, Prue Leith, Paul Hollywood and Saku in The Great British Bake Off series 14.
Photograph: Mark Bourdillon

9.17pm BST

Aaaaand it’s Botanical Week next week, something we haven’t seen on Bake Off (I believe) since 2010.

Poor Abbi. She would have loved this week.

Thanks so much for reading and for all the lovely comments. And thank you all to the newbies who have joined in the last couple of episodes.

I’ll be back on Tuesday at 8pm. I’ll be off pouring a wee drink for Nicky and Rowan.

9.14pm BST

Rowan and Nicky are leaving the tent this week.

It’s gutting, but it felt like the right time for both of them.

Rowan will be remembered for a lot of things. My personal highlight was the time he baked a cottage loaf inspired by a trip to Amalfi and followed it up with “It is a place I would never go back to.” Also when he revealed that there is nothing more wholesome than inviting friends over for a wine and a cheeseboard. He’s a University student.

Then there is of course his use of innuendo, like when he said “this one is going to be a top. This one is going to be a bottom,” in regards to his custard creams and “I managed to get it up and keep it up,” in regards to his freestanding bread tree.

And … ahhhh wee Nicky. I’ll never forget her positivity, the fact that she once baked a highland cow called Angus and the hundreds of times that her glasses fogged up every time she took something out of the oven. Deary me. I’ll miss her.