Great British Bake off - TV programme seeks contestants

[Maggi Young]

Yes, you read that correctly - we have been sent  a  message from the production team of The Great British Bake Off - who are  lloking for new contestants for their next series of this UK TV programme.

‎Message from  Frankie Fuller
Email: frankie.fuller@loveproductions.co.uk

" Hi There,

I was hoping you could help me, my name is Frankie and I am currently working for Love Productions and we are looking for people who love baking to take part in the next BBC series of The Great British Bake Off (2015). I was really hoping, this would be of interest to some your staff and/or members. We are trying to get the word out about applications being open to a widest audience as possible, in hope of finding some amazing amateur bakers. I cant attach a poster to this contact sheet, but there’s some brief information below which I’m hoping you may be able to include on the intranet or a newsletter, or on a social media page? If you send me your address, I can also send over some hard copies in the post to pin up on a notice board if you like?

BAKE OFF’S BACK!
BBC baking contest The Great British Bake Off is returning in 2015 and the production team are currently looking for the next batch of great home bakers to take part. So who’s the best baker you know? If you, or someone you know, can turn out a terrific tart, produce a perfect pie or serve up a sublime sponge, then please get in touch now.
For more information or an application form, go to:

www.thegreatbritishbakeoff.co.uk

Also, please check out our YouTube trailer -

We’d love to hear from a variety of non-professional bakers from all over the UK and so any help spreading the word is greatly appreciated. Does this sound like something you may be able to help me with?

Kind Regards,
Frankie "

[mark smyth]

a rocker could win!

[David Nicholson]

Sounds just like the phone-call I got a couple of weeks ago from another production company asking how I might like to be in the running to be a participant in a new "gardening" show to be fronted by Miranda Hart. Just as much as I would love to have another hole in my head was my reply. But you've been recommended to us she replied but she wouldn't tell me by whom!!

I think these production companies, and the Frankies who work for them, are all cloned "substitute gardening for baking and the punters won't notice the difference". Maybe I'm getting old and cynical?

[SJW]

Perhaps Frankie misread SRGC as SRCC - the Scottish Rock Cake Club?

Still, he is ' an extremely ambitious and confident person, who can speak fluent Spanish'. https://thetalentmanager.co.uk/people/11954/frankie-fuller

[SJW]

... "substitute gardening for baking and the punters won't notice the difference".

Which would explain the new autumn gardening programme currently in production, "The Great British Rake-Off".

[SJW]

... a new "gardening" show to be fronted by Miranda Hart. 

I did wonder what on earth Miranda Hart's connection was to horticulture. Turns out she's Tom Hart Dyke's cousin and her mother has "devoted much of her life to tending a glorious garden". (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Hart_Dyke)

[Tim Ingram]

We were discussing this on a walk with the dog today and my wife thought that the Great British Bake Off was actually quite good (she makes good cakes too!), rather like the Sewing Bee last year. One thing is certainly true - visitors to the garden when we open it love the cakes as much as the plants   

[ichristie]

I would recommend Maggie to judge all the cakes with a sample being sent of each to Aberdeen,  cheers Ian the Christie kind

[David Shaw]

Did Maggi miss the ps of the bottom of Frankies message?
ps Publicise this on your web site and we will send you a large sample box of BakeOff products.
Maggi can be bribed ;-))))))

[Maggi Young]

Did Maggi miss the ps of the bottom of Frankies message?
ps Publicise this on your web site and we will send you a large sample box of BakeOff products.
Maggi can be bribed ;-))))))

Drat! you know me too well, David  !! 
 Though, as you also know, it is usually only large crates of quality chocolate bars that really produce a result ..... just in case any of you were wondering about the best route....... 

[Lesley Cox]

Ian, it's good to see you are safely home and on the Forum again.

We've been having the most recent of the Bake Off here recently and there's a Christmas special coming up in a couple of days. I only am interested because the advance blurb reminded me that I want to make a pannatone - or two - in order to make a bread and butter pudding after Christmas, if there's any of the bread left which there probably won't be.

The thought of Miranda involved with a gardening programme is bizarre! I can't abide her own programme or perhaps more accurately, I can't abide the repeats of it and repeats of repeats and repeats of repeats of repeats.......