Terry Hartill and Karen Wright were axed from ‘The Great British Bake Off’ last night (25.09.18).
The 56-year-old former air steward and the 60-year-old sampling assistant were given the boot from the Channel 4 show in the programme’s first-ever double elimination after they failed to impress during Spice Week.
Terry – who missed last week’s episode through illness, resulting in nobody leaving – said afterwards: "If I had gone on week one I would have felt happy to have run the race as far as I did. At week five I knew it was the end of it for me, but not in any way shape or form was I bothered about the result on the day.
"I think it was a fair result of the judges, as it has been throughout the series. It wasn’t the baking result I wanted but that is what it was. It’s all been about how this has been a massive change in my life, it has brought me away from a place that I was in."
Before the final verdict was revealed, Karen had a feeling she might be getting the chop from the show, and later admitted she made a "lot of silly mistakes".
She added: "But I kept smiling through them, when you are in that kind of situation you just keep going. I thought if I kept pouring brandy in the ginger cake, I would make it work, but it had the opposite effect and became a brandy cake."
The bakers were tasked with making a signature ginger cake, shortbread pastries Ma’amoul for the technical part of Spice Week, and a spiced biscuit chandelier as their showstopper.
Mental health specialist Kim-Joy was named as the week’s Star Baker, but judge Paul Hollywood was forced to fly solo during the showstopper challenge after Prue Leith pulled out due to illness.
Terry Hartill and Karen Wright eliminated from The Great British Bake Off
