SPOILER ALERT: The following has information about the winner of the latest season of The Great British Baking Show. We have updated the headline and images based on reader complaints of a spoiler. Our apologies, and happy thanksgiving!
After an intense final bake, where surprise finalist Dave botched babkas, and beloved nervous wreck Laura made a mess of everything as usual, adorable Peter fought his way to claim the trophy for the 2020 season of The Great British Baking Show.
The finale episode aired Nov. 24 in the U.K. (Each week the show is released in the U.S. on Netflix, three days after it airs in the U.K.)
Besides being an adept baker who analyzed every bake with the precision of an engineer, Peter (last name Sawkins) quickly became a fan favorite with his refreshing wide-eyed enthusiasm, his unusual technique of listening to his cakes to determine if they are baked (a technique that actually works), and his tendency to vigorously blush at the slightest bit of attention.
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Known as the Great British Bake Off everywhere on Earth except the U.S.*, The Great British Baking Show is arguably the greatest reality-TV competition in production today, and not only because it’s fun watching bakers create weird desserts (make dough with fat from around a cow’s kidney, wrap around an entire lemon, bake in a steam bath, and then eat the whole lemon?). The show is all about the drama of watching British people struggle against their innate Britishness, their culture of bottling up their emotions, yet catching a glimpse of their eyes flashing with panic as things go terribly wrong. That famous British saying “Keep Calm and Carry On” is hard to live by when your cake sinks or your mousse melts, and the entire nation is watching you fail.
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Bake Off is also unapologetically sexy. There are endless raunchy puns throughout the show, with giggles about any baked good that happens to be shaped like a penis, and in a world of loaves and eclairs (filled with cream!), phallic-shaped things are common. Host Paul Hollywood is a thick and sexy man, King of the Bears, setting hearts racing with more than competition nerves as he prowls his way around the baking stations with his judgmental, blue-eyed gaze.
Paul Hollywood aside, Bake Off is the realm of the twinks. The show boasts a long legacy of young lads like Peter, sometimes they identify as gay and sometimes not, who presumably honed their baking skills after years of staying inside and baking with their mothers instead of rough-housing outside with the neighborhood boys.
Almost every season has at least one, and they are always cute. Fan favorites like Henry Bird, Michael Chakraverty, Liam Charles, and Andrew Smyth did not win their seasons (Andrew made it to the finals), but they all won over audiences with charm, wit, and big smiles, and they have moved on to careers in social media and TV.
There is an American version, The Great American Baking Show, but it never grabs any sort of audience. Americans are far too willing to complain and act pathetic on TV, and on a show that is supposed to be about rising above adversity, American drama does not work. Endless complaining is integral for the Real Housewives, but on Bake Off, it flops like an over kneaded loaf.
And baking, at its core, is all about love. Who wants to eat a cupcake soaked with tears?
*Pillsbury already had their own baking competition in the U.S., called “Bake-Off Contest,” and they own the copyrights to the name. It’s not on TV but it is fun.
Raphael
Funny how the tittle (which show on the front page) of the article says “…adorable twink reigns supreme…” and the editor even bother to add and “SPOILER ALERT: has information about the winner”.
gelleg
Hey Queerty-
Maybe if you actually gave a damn about Spoiling your readers you wouldn’t post a picture of the winner in the article headline you morons. Thanks for spoiling it when a bulk of your audience doesn’t even have the ability to watch the finale until Friday.
Centar60143
TAKE THIS DOWN THIS DOESN’T AIR UNTIL FRIDAY IN THE US
nyc2021
I registered for an account for the first time in the many years I’ve been reading Queerty, just to comment. WHY WOULD YOU SPOIL A SHOW NOT AVAILABLE UNTIL FRIDAY?! Winners face in the thumbnail. Very few joys these days and this show was one of them.
cynicalsteve
F*CK YOU queerty. You f*cking a$$holes suck a$$. Seriously, your heads are so far up your a$$es man. Thanks for the SPOILER WARNING embedded IN the article. F*CK YOU!!
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Have a wonderful Thanksgiving Steve!
strap2900
It’s not that big of a surprise. Peter was the best right from the beginning and only got better.
Andrew
The photo was the spoiler. Thanks a lot. The GBBS was my one pandemic escape!
albertday
Well, you’ve spoilt it. You suck.
Scooter McGee
I can’t believe you spoiled the finale when it’s not even available on Netflix. What the hell? I was really excited about the final.
NCC-1701
Pretty stupid to run this article. People don’t come to this website to have their shows spoiled. Pretty disappointing. I was looking forward to the finale, but you ruined it.
M@
So angry right now! Absolutely disgusted with Queerty for spoiling this.
barryaksarben
His eyes are the most amazing color and he turned so red at times. ADORABLE. And he is the best baker this year. The wonderful thing about this show is how kind they are to each other. There is only rare gloat when someone screws up and it is followed by a disclaimer and guilt which seems to not exist in AMerican shows any longer. LOVE thi show so much watch every season
Jake123
I’m so happy he won my heart melted every time he was onscreen!! Is he LGBT btw ??
blackhook
Agreed, he is adorable! Wondering the same thing… c’mon out Peter!
Durwood
A dumbarse article.
As a Brit. I’m somewhat amused at the trigged comments – as if you didn’t have enough to worry about.
throwaway1993
I can’t f*cking believeeee y’all just spoiled this for me. I created an account just to say I’m never reading this website again -__- seriously what’s the point of embedding a spoiler in the article if the title and cover photo spoil it anyway. So stupid.
Joshooeerr
SPOILER ALERT!! From a baking perspective, it was the weakest series so far. Laura didn’t deserve a place in the final, since she couldn’t make scones without some kind of disaster. And Twink Boy only one because his much more adept, much more inventive only competitor (Peter) had a few technical glitches in his final bake after a near perfect run through the show. I struggle to see how they justified the choice.
nm4047
was already splashed across social media, so not a breaking new event. Plus, it’s a f@#king cooking show, not the end of the world.
JessPH
Most male winners of GBBO are gay, including the very first winner of the series, so this one is probably gay too. Straight men grill, gay men bake!
JessPH
The US version of this show isn’t a hit because it lacks the drama, whining, bickering and backstabbing Americans love in their reality TV shows.
Americans are weird AF.
Colin Clout
What BRAIN-DEAD idiot thought it was a good idea to run this headline BEFORE the show ran in the US? I guess we know that Queerty staff weren’t hired for their brains. F@$# YOU.