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TOMMY TIERNAN IS set to don the iconic apron and enter the tent for the upcoming season of Channel 4′s The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up to Cancer.
The Donegal comedian will compete in the baking competition against 20 famous faces, in the hopes of impressing the judges and raising funds for the UK-based cancer charity.
In each episode, four participants will face off, showcasing their baking skills in three rounds: Signature, Technical, and Showstopper, with one contestant earning the title of Star Baker.
Tommy will be joined by Good Morning Britain host Kate Garraway, Loose Women’s Gloria Hunniford, and Chicken Shop Date’s Amelia Dimoldenberg.
Prue Leith’s close friend, Caroline Waldegrave, will step in as co-judge for this season, taking on the role previously held by Leith.
Waldegrave, a former co-owner and managing director of Leiths School of Food and Wine, will join judge Paul Hollywood to assess the celebrities’ creations.
Hosts Alison Hammond and Noel Fielding will return to offer their support and encouragement to the celebrity bakers as they compete in the iconic Bake Off tent.
The popular show is expected to air on Channel 4 this Spring.
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Spot on, I’m surprised the UN hasn’t sanctioned Ireland for slave trading, as we seem to be exporting and importing people like its gone out of fashion.
What do they expect. We’ve had broken promises from this Govt. The one of the last thirteen years featuring Brian Cowen, Ahern and Micky Martin was a poster case for duplicity and will tie up the courts for decades to come. Prior to that we had Reynolds and Haughey and a hundred others. One in Ten, how is is that high.
I wouldn’t believe on word uttered from their mouths and I have zero faith in this so called government.
I seriously (like a fool) actually believed they would follow through on half the promises and voted on a *anything but ff* basis.
I will never ever as long as I exist on this planet vote for anything to do with this shower.
Mark, though he was pretty clear, never again , mind you I include Finn fail in that too, and labour, to me their all self obsessed , cowardly, and date I say it , creepy
people voted this Govt. in because while they are crap and woeful they are still better than Fianna Fraud, being better than FF is easy but it still doesn’t mean that people should support you.
@ mark/paddy/michael j etc.
Are twitter copping on to your false accounts and the complaints of your constant trolling and verbal bullying.
Why should I stoop down to your level to explain myself to you.
You are a known and reported troll and perhaps (with the exception of the idiots you are paid to protect) a gobsh*te.
Now there’s a good little boy/girl and crawl back under your rock.
The only media you can trust is social media , people don’t trust businesses but media is a business there not doing it just so we can have information they want to make a profit, so if you don’t trust business don’t trust media, media is the most ruthless business of all , did the media do any investigative journalism during the boom while our politicians screwed us ! NO ! Wake up we have a biased media !
Companies are PLCs mostly, focus on short to medium term goals, and shareholders are brain washed onto allowing directors receive excessive pay and pensions,
A head of a bank in Ireland is not the same as a head banker in England or France , most of them wouldn’t get a job elsewhere on that money??? At lest that is the perception
Like this mornings statement about wind power and 30000 jobs absolute bulls***e.Pet rabbit the turbines won’t be built on everycross roads in the country more lies.
Not when they immediately turn round and not only forget their normal pre-election promises (which we’ve come to accept as par for the course — which says a lot in and of itself), but also the pre-election committments they publicly signed up to (like college fees, where Labour made great PR hay from signing pledges before the election) and even their basic party platforms (ike burning senior bank bondholders, which was in both parties’ pre-election manifestos).
I mean, you might *think* you elected this government, but it’s hardly the government you voted for…
Actually Mark I didn’t vote for this government. The candidate I voted for as number 1 got in and isn’t part of the government.
But among those many that don’t trust the government will be people who did and will trot into the polling office and vote for FG and Lab … and then say they don’t trust them.
ACCOUNTABILITY! is key. Until that happens, expect more of the same old “lies for votes”. We (the public) have a responsibility. Thinking otherwise, would be an illusions.
Government lol, still roughly same numbers, allowed senior civil servants include bonus thus avoiding 10 recent pay cut, why go on ? But who the hell do you vote for
I’m amazed that’s it only 1 in 10, says all you need to know about the majority of people in Ireland when it comes to electing their nepotistic politicians, parish pump is alive and well! Irish politics can be summed up thus…government of the gombeens, by the gombeens, for the gombeens!
During the last election campaign kenny and gilmore etc “talked the talk” but when it came to “walking the walk” they turned out to be lame ducks .
They pulled off the biggest con job in the history of the state.
Exactly. FF/FG/Lab are still getting about 60% of the vote. One in five say they will vote for FF, a party that has proven to be a malign cancer in our society again and again and incapable of reform.
The only solution I see is for RTE to make more TV programs with more entrepreneurial spirit like,
Feargal Quinn fixes your hospital
Feargal Quinn teaches you how to cook (efficiently!)
Fealgal Quinn’s Animal Hospital (pet cemetery more like it!)
Feargal Quinn’s guide to mental wellbeing (on the cheap)
Fealgal Quinn’s guide to cheap funerals and
Fealgal Quinn’s The Joy of se* Nah, step too far.
Big march on the 9th February in town … Unfortunately organised by SIPTU but a march none the less …. People power is our only chance now ..,, get these fools out….
Stephen, trust business , no way, have you forgotten banks and property developers hold the greatest level of responsibility for this mess, followed closely by government and our watch dogs
Who could trust the bunch of EU lapdogs ? I mean they are a an absolute joke to this nation…….LEAVE THE EURO !!! and dump Kenny and the rest of the goons in Brussels
Until they start locking up those that are corrupt there will be no major investment in this Country, Outsidrrs looking in wouldnt trust us an inch and who could blame them
Eamonn Gilmore accused Aherne,Biffo & McGreevey of economic treason before he got into government ,then he lied and was shown up for it on video tape in Mullingar, Now our great Labour (HA HA ) Leader punsihes the people at the bottom of society and he and his wife rip us off with large pay packets. I hope the Unions have seen through the Workers Labour Party WHAT A JOKE OF A GOVERNMENT
Businesses just follow the example of government – the government feed us horse sh-t and businesses follow with horse meat. We accept whatever we are fed.
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