Giving Mary Berry a run for her money? Pregnant Abbey Clancy joins stars for The Great Comic Relief Bake Off
Fans of the Great Comic Relief Bake Off can help themselves to a second slice on Wednesday night as the next four celebrities enter the famous tent to do baking battle.
Abbey Clancy has joined Jonathan Ross, Gok Wan and Zoella as they aim to beat the competition and whisk away the coveted Star Baker prize, all whilst raising some serious dough for charity.
The pregnant 29-year-old model appears to be a natural in just released pictures, which show her laughing and smiling as she gets to work on the BBC show.
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Ready to whisk away the competition: Abbey Clancy will appear in the next installment of the Great Comic Relief Bake Off on BBC One on Wednesday
Covering her bump with a Comic Relief apron, the blonde beauty will be hoping to impress Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood.
Paul and Mary kick off proceedings with the seemingly straightforward Signature Challenge of 'quick and easy' cupcakes. The heat is on, however, not all bakers can rise to the challenge, with one celebrity's sponge branded by Paul as 'awful' and one celebrity declaring 'it looks a bit like slime at the minute.'
What competition: Abbey didn't seem too bothered as she got to work but Gok Wan appeared slightly worried
The famous tent: The duo joined Jonathan Ross and blogger Zoella in the famous tent
Next up is the ever tricky Technical Challenge, in which the celebrities take on Mary's classic recipe for profiteroles with a special Red Nose Day twist.
After an accidental egg scrambling, a rather runny mixture and 'a bit of a slight deflation' temperatures soar in the tent, but whose profiteroles could do with more filling, and whose does Mary conclude are 'a bit like Yorkshire pudding'?
Finally, there's the all-important Showstopper Challenge – a marble cake inspired by the bakers' favourite buildings. The stakes are high and the cakes are even higher, but whose ambitious creation ends in a doweling disaster and which celebrity has accidentally left the oven on the grill setting?
The programme will also follow comedian Ed Byrne as he visits a Comic Relief funded project in Uganda to show how the money raised this Red Nose Day could help change people's lives.
For a good cause: Abbey has joined up with (L-R) Jonathan Ross, Mary Berry, Zoella blogger Zoe Sugg, Paul Hollywood, Gok Wan for the charity show with Mel Giedroyc (far right) presenting
The four Star Bakers from the series will return for a special edition of The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice on the Red Nose Day night of TV, Friday 13th March, as they compete to win the ultimate 'champion of champions' title.
Abbey and co joined a host of celebrities including Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Lulu and Dame Edna Everage, who recently appeared on the charity spinoff, the first of which aired on February 11.
Who will win? Mary Berry (far left) and Paul Hollywood (far right) will be judging a celebrity packed Great British Bake Off to raise money for Comic Relief, with (L-F) Jennifer Saunders, Dame Edna Everage, Lulu, Joanna Lumley all participating and Sue Perkins (second right) presenting
However, Paul insisted the stars would get no special treatment.
'If you pussyfoot around celebrities too much they get upset,' he told Radio Times magazine. 'You have to be yourself. I think we both say it as it is, whether they like it or not. I don't really care.'
Fellow judge Mary Berry added: 'They have no idea how much mixture goes in a tin, what they're looking for. They wing it all the way through.'
Asked how she would rate her own baking skills, Saunders told Radio Times magazine: 'I never bake. I don't think I've ever baked a cake.'
She added: 'I don't particularly like cake. If I was going to choose a thing not to eat, cake would probably be it.'
Will they impress? David Mitchell, Sarah Brown, Jameela Jamil and Michael Sheen (L-R) are also taking part in the The Great Comic Relief Bake Off
But she admitted: 'From series one, I've been a complete Bake Off addict. I absolutely love it. I couldn't care less about the cake, I just wanted to feel what it was like, to be there with Mary and Paul.'
She added: 'I like a cook, but a bake? Dear God. It's so much of a fuss, and I can't be bothered to wipe up all the flour. You make such a mess with baking, and you use so much equipment. I can't be bothered doing the washing up for just a cake.'
Meanwhile Peep Show comedian David Mitchell added: 'I think the most cheffy thing I own is a pizza cutter. That's probably not a sign of great culinary skill. I must say I think scissors are better for cutting pizza, anyway. That would be my top cookery tip!'
Fellow contestant Sarah Brown said that her husband, former prime minister Gordon Brown, has 'quite a sweet tooth'.
'If you put chocolate in it then it will go down well with him,' she said.
'I think the best cake we ever did for him was a football pitch birthday cake. We made a very nice chocolate cake, covered it all with green icing and put a Subbuteo football match on top. It was floodlit by candles.'
Tune into BBC One at 8.30pm to find out whose baking skills are no yolk and who ends up with egg on their face.
Taking their chances: Paul Hollywood has promised not to go easy on the contestants who include (L-R) Victoria Wood, Four Lions actor Kayvan Novak, Mary Berry, Alexa Chung, Chris Moyles and comedian Ed Byrne
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