'Great British Bake Off' judge Dame Prue Leith has warned a double elimination is coming.
Dame Prue Leith has teased more drama
The Channel 4 baking show had a twist during Bread Week on Tuesday night (27.09.22) when no one had to leave the competition after contestants Rebs Lightbody and Abdul Rehman Sharif were forced to miss the show due to illness.
Host Matt Lucas told the bakers: "Well, this week, nobody is going home. The judges felt given the quality here and the fact Rebs and Abdul aren’t here, that everyone deserved the chance to bake again."
However, Prue later revealed they haven't given anyone a pass, and they'll still have to get rid of the same number of contestants.
She said: "They were all thrilled to bits because nobody had to go. They are all friends, they don’t want to see their friends go home, but sooner or later, we have to send two bakers home and that’s not nice."
Rebs and Abdul missed Bread Week because they were "under the weather", but some viewers joked they would have "pulled a sickie" if they had to face Prue and her fellow judge Paul Hollywood during a notoriously difficult stage of the competition.
However, Rebs - who has had to deal with some trolling from fans - insisted she was gutted to miss it after feeling very confident about her bakes.
Taking to Twitter, she wrote: ‘Will say it once for the people in the back, I DID NOT want to miss bread week (it was probably my strongest week), I was forced to go home for the safety of all in the tent, I just wanted the world to see my Lahmacun pizza and Mexican style smorgastarta! #gbbo.
"No matter what you think of me and my bakes pls know I didn’t pull a 'sickie', I begged to stay and then I cried all the way back to Northern Ireland."
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