Great British Bake Off drama as contestant walks away in tears when bake goes horribly wrong

Great British Bake Off prima John was near successful tears aft his Showstopper went horribly incorrect and ended up storming retired of the structure successful tears and was being consoled by big Alison Hammond

A contestant connected the Great British Bake Off was near successful tears and walked disconnected acceptable this week aft his showstopper turned into a disaster.

John, who has been wowing viewers and judges Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith implicit the past fewer weeks, had a pugnacious clip during breadstuff week. Achieving a Hollywood handshake during breadstuff week - Paul's speciality - is notoriously difficult, but things took a crook for the worse for John during his Showstopper bake.

When his bagels didn't emergence to the aboveground arsenic expected, helium was flooded with emotion and near the tent, with Alison Hammond aboriginal going to comfortableness him. Alison tried to assistance his spirits by sharing a communicative from her clip connected Strictly Come Dancing erstwhile she knew she'd beryllium leaving, but her creation spouse reassured her by saying 'don't worry, the different idiosyncratic could autumn over'.

Later, erstwhile Prue and Paul went to inspect the bagels, John told them to "not adjacent bother" arsenic Paul admitted helium couldn't devour them.

The remainder of his cook didn't fare overmuch better, with Paul suggesting helium would person preferred a much antithetic signifier for John's colourful buns, reports Wales Online.

When John explained that the bagels sunk successful the water, Paul suggested: "It sounds similar you overproved them truthful erstwhile they deed the blistery water, it forces them to driblet truthful by the clip you get them, they're flat."

John proudly presented his citrus and ginger buns, but the verdict from Paul was that they lacked capable citrus zest and needed much proofing time. In a light-hearted effect to the judges' scrutiny implicit the bagels, John suggested, "Use it arsenic a frisbee".

Prue Leith said it was an "impressive" centrepiece by John but added it was a "pity astir the bagels". Reflecting connected his performance, John confessed to the camera: "It went arsenic expected. I was blessed with however it looked. I knew contiguous wasn't going to beryllium my day."

Ultimately, it was John's crook to permission the show. He took the quality of his departure well, remarking to his peers: "It's fine, it was expected," portion receiving comfortableness from judges Paul and Prue.

Later helium added: "It's ok, I've conscionable had a atrocious week. Because everybody's truthful talented, you driblet the shot past it's your clip to go. To the archetypal Star baker of this season, I had a truly bully week past week arsenic well, but you cognize what - the tears are tears of pride."

The Great British Bake Off airs astatine 8pm connected Tuesdays connected Channel 4.