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Help! Noel Fielding's ‘Great British Baking Show' Antics are Growing on Me
2020-10-18
[Decider] Call it Stockholm Syndrome, or maybe we’re all just changing a lot in 2020, but I am starting to find The Great British Baking Show host Noel Fielding’s antics in the tent to be utterly charming. In the past, I have bemoaned the fact that he enjoys mugging for the camera so much that he puts himself in the bakers’ way, but in "Chocolate Week," Fielding was the tent’s stealth MVP. After a disastrous Signature Challenge where all the bakers failed to make decent brownies, Fielding became everyone’s cheerleader. Between his self-deprecating comments, impromptu "babka ballads," and knack for getting everyone to smile, Fielding has finally figured out how to harness his comic talents for good in The Great British Baking Show tent. (At least for now.)

The Great British Baking Show experienced a seismic shakeup four years ago when the show migrated from its original broadcasting home, the BBC, to Channel 4. Only one of the show’s original cast, Paul Hollywood, followed the program. That meant that producers had the lofty task of filling the void left by former judge Mary Berry and original hosting duo Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc. While Prue Leith easily slid into Berry’s role, the show has struggled to replicate the sunny, easy chemistry of Mel & Sue, real life BFFs. Sandi Toksvig has already left the show to spend time on other project and newbie Matt Lucas is still finding his footing. That means that zany goth comic Noel Fielding has found himself taking on a new role in the tent: spiritual older brother.
Posted by:Besoeker

#3  Mr. Fielding does like that story. I saw him telling it on a British talk show, only his hair was an even less attractive brassy blond shag.
Posted by: trailing wife   2020-10-18 13:57  

#2  Mr. Fielding was also great as 'Richmond' on the old British TV Show, 'The IT Crowd'.

Still one of the better shows out there.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2020-10-18 08:58  

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Posted by: Woodrow   2020-10-18 07:19  

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