[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for The Great British Baking Show, Collection 12, Week 8]
Alison Hammond wasn’t the one one who toppled over on this week’s episode of The Nice British Baking Present, as one other contestant was eradicated from the competitors after their gateau collapsed.
Illyin, a 31-year-old delivery trauma specialist midwife from Norwich, England, grew to become the eighth baker eradicated from the collection after failing to impress judges Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith throughout Seventies Week. Regardless of being the primary contestant this season to earn a coveted Hollywood handshake, Illyin couldn’t recapture her earlier success this week.
Seventies Week noticed Hollywood and Leith activity the remaining 5 contestants with the standard Signature, Technical, and Showstopper rounds. This included making choux profiterole for the Signature bake, a gateau for the Technical, and a cake elaborately adorned with all of the aptitude of the period for the Showstopper.
The judges chosen 34-year-old pediatric nurse Georgie as this week’s Star Baker and Illyin because the eighth contestant to be eradicated. This got here after Illyin’s gateau failed to remain upright.
Poor Illiyin is having a ‘wobbly week.’#GBBO pic.twitter.com/k2rnIrJ1CR
— Nice British Cooks (@gbchefs) November 12, 2024
Talking after her elimination, Illyin mentioned, “It’s a humorous factor, I really feel I can drop my shoulders a bit of bit, and at the least you don’t need to go and follow patisserie! Even all these emotions of unhappiness, beneath all of that, I feel there may be an immense sense of satisfaction. I’m glad to have that.”
She added, “That is an distinctive competitors with distinctive bakers, and to have been a part of it, that’s fairly particular. Over and out Bake Off, it’s achieved!”
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In her post-elimination goodbye letter, shared on the GBBO X account, Illyin wrote, “I go away with reminiscences that I’ll cherish for the remainder of my life and a deeper understanding of myself and what I’m able to. There are classes in every little thing and really Bake Off has been a large one.”
“I’m a agency believer in ‘what’s for me received’t miss me’ and this was for me, what a pleasure!” – Illiyin. #GBBO pic.twitter.com/3stlK9L477
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“I’m a agency believer in ‘what’s for me received’t miss me’ and this was for me, what a pleasure!” she continued. “I’m excited for what’s subsequent on this new chapter and to welcome extra of you into my group. We’ll snort, study and develop collectively. It’s a good time. Till then, all the most effective.”
Illyin adopted up on her elimination on Instagram on Tuesday, November 12, writing, “If heartbreak had a face, it was mine upon discovering my collapsed gataeux. A end result of months of onerous work and sacrifice ending in collapse. Man. It was robust. Watching it once more was robust too.”
Regardless of the best way issues ended, Illyin stored her head up excessive, including, “I’m a GBBO quarter finalist. Quarter finalist. A title I didn’t anticipate having and am so proud to have achieved. You don’t get up to now of the competitors with out being at the least an OK baker.”
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