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Great British Bake Off contestant, Jeff, who quit the newest season of the show after just two episodes, has opened up on his experience on the baking contest, while also mocking his early exit.

The former university lecturer, who was suffering from illness during episode one’s “cake week”, had decided “I’ve had enough” in the latest episode of the show.

Speaking to presenter Alison Hammond, the 57-year-old had said “I’m done” due to feeling unwell for a second week running. Consoling Jeff, Hammond said: “You tried man. You tried.”

In a new appearance on The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice on Thursday (3 October), Jeff, who is originally from Brooklyn, appeared alongside the other baker who has been eliminated so far, 71-year-old Hazel.

Speaking to host Jo Brand, Jeff immediately made a joke about his short stint on the show. As he sat down to be interviewed, he said, “I’m done. Sorry, I’m out of here,” which prompted a huge laugh from the audience.

Brand then asked Jeff about an awkward moment between him and judge Paul Hollywood, who attempted to say “coffee” in a stereotypical New York accent. The comedian asked him if “that was the point you decided you’d had enough?”

Laughing, Jeff said in response: “I was walking. That was it. I’d had enough.”

Jeff did say that he had been feeling under the weather on the show but that he was “feeling better” now and revealed that he is still baking and is “busy planning the wedding cake for my son’s wedding”.

After his dramatic exit, Jeff penned a letter, shared on the show’s X/Twitter account, writing: “The Bake Off has been an amazing and challenging experience of a lifetime.”

He added: “Although I was not able to continue for long, I had the pleasure of meeting all of the incredible bakers from series 15. What a wonderful group of people and they were also excellent bakers.”

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Jeff concluded the note by saying: “The production team are the nicest, most hard-working people you will ever come across. They are so supportive and positive. All the very best, always, Jeff with every good wish!”

Episode two of the latest season of Bake Off was filled with chaos.

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Aside from Jeff quitting, 31-year-old midwife Illiyin, who impressed the judges during episode one, told the crew she “felt a bit dizzy”, before being helped to the floor by medics and put in the recovery position.

The final drama came when Dylan fell off his chair, to which Essex car mechanic, Andy, exclaimed: “They’re dropping like flies!”

Gemma Collins reveals plans to become a foster carer on Good Morning Britain after struggling to conceive

The reality star, 43, was inspired by her mum who grew up in a foster home.

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She spoke up on her plans as the national fostering group warned of a caring crisis.

The Towie star invited Good Morning Britain into her home and told viewers: “I make a good dinner. I’ve got a lot of love to give.”

She said finding her family on Who Do You Think You Are gave her the idea.

One key part of her family history is her mother Joan’s story, who was sadly abandoned at the hospital as a baby.

“Why was she left at the hospital? Why did they never come back for her?” Gemma questioned on the show, before revealing her mother “never talks about it.”

“I just think it’s too painful for her to go there,” the star continued.

It comes a year after Gemma told of the devastating moment doctors advised her to terminate her pregnancy after they told her the unborn baby “was not right”.

In a heart-rending podcast, the Towie star revealed staff had found that the baby was intersex.

Gemma, 43, sobbed as she candidly opened up on the medical instruction after suffering three previous miscarriages.

The telly favourite has made no secret of her desire to become a mum with partner Rami Hawash, 49.

She has always been frank about her desire for a family.

She said on the Everything I Know About Me podcast: “Something is not right, they said to me your baby could be a hermaphrodite.

“You can imagine I had no idea what the word was. I had to look it up. It was a real shock.

“They advised me you need to have a termination because this baby is not going to be right.”

Gemma got tearful as she added: “In a single instant, I learned that I’d been carrying a baby and lost it, meaning that once again I found my longstanding dreams of motherhood shattered into pieces.”

An intersex person is born with both male and female characteristics. This could be genitalia, hormones, internal anatomy or chromosomes and is a spectrum.

Conditions include Partial Androgen Insensitivity in which a person has a vulva, but no womb, and testes.

The term “hermaphrodite” comes from mythology and is preferably not used among people who are intersex, according to interACT, an advocate group for young people who are intersex.

BABY TRAGEDY

Gemma sadly suffered her first miscarriage in 2012.

Eight years later she suffered a second miscarriage during the coronavirus pandemic.

She is now a bonus mum to Rami’s son Tristan, aged five.

She admitted she was still “holding onto the dream” of becoming a mum last year.

The star, who has polycystic ovary syndrome, said: “I pray every night that everything’s going to work out for me.

“Having a miscarriage with someone you love very much was very heartbreaking.”

Polycystic ovary syndrome is a common condition that means the ovaries do not regularly release eggs and can make pregnancy difficult.

Gemma’s baby hopes were given a boost in December when F Word chef Gordon Ramsay‘s wife Tana, 49, gave birth to their sixth child.

At the time, she said: “The Tana Ramsay news was the greatest thing to wake up to. Incredible.”

“It really made me think positively about my future and kind of took the pressure off.

“I don’t think anyone knew she was pregnant, so it was a lovely surprise, but I got butterflies in my stomach when I saw it.”

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One of the main cast members from The Sopranos is not happy with her final scene in the show.

The HBO series ended in 2007 with a finale that continues to be meticulously analysed to this day. It depicts a seemingly ordinary yet extremely tense restaurant scene between Tony (James Gandolfini) and his family, which ends with the screen cutting to black.

Viewers were left stunned by the moment and, over the years, many have assumed this stylistic decision symbolised the show’s protagonist getting ‘whacked’. Ever since, creator David Chase has been fielding requests for clarification – and, in 2020, even referred to it as a “death scene”.

Now, a few weeks after Chase highlighted a season three scene that might reveal the “truth” behind what actually happened, Lorraine Bracco, who played Tony’s therapist Dr Jennifer Melfi, has candidly hit out at her character’s last appearance.

Melfi’s final appearance occurs in the penultimate episode and shows her cutting ties with a visibly upset Tony – and Bracco said she was “not very happy” with this being the end of their relationship.

“I was also not very happy the way David ended it,” she told SiriusXM show The Spotlight With Jessica Shaw, adding: “I thought it was bad and wrong. I was annoyed. I told him, ‘How do you invest five years into someone’s life and just walk away?’ I said, ‘That is not cool.’ And you know, that was it.”

While many believe that Tony died when the screen cut to black in the finale, Bracco has a more optimistic outlook.

Expressing the hope that he survived, the Goodfellas actor said: “Honestly, I think they bumped into each other in restaurants and stuff like that. I don’t know. I think part of me wants to believe that she took a moment away from him, and they got back together, back in therapy. I could believe that.”

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Bracco recently revealed in two-part documentary Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos that she watched the finale live with Gandolfini who had no idea how Chase had decided to end the show.

“I was with Jim and he said, ‘That’s it?!’ she said, adding: “He couldn’t believe it.”

Meanwhile, Drea de Matteo, who played Adriana La Cerva, said the abrupt cut to black made her think there had been a power cut, stating: “I started calling everybody, like, ‘Yo, did my TV just go out?’”