The Great British Bake Off Live: Latest updates and reaction as Season 7 kicks off with Episode One

Follow the thrills and spills from the Bake Off tent live

(left-right) Rav, Tom, Kate, Lee, Val, Candice, Benjamina , Michael, Selasi, Jane, Andrew & Louise the contestants for this year's BBC1's cookery contest, The Great British Bake Off (PA)

It's the moment we've all been waiting for! Here's what's happened so far...

• Jaffa cakes turned out to be a nightmare all-round. Some contestants (Andrew) haven't actually ever eaten one
• This week they have to make a mirror-glazed cake with a genoise sponge (ooh, fancy)
• So far Selasi seems remarkably chilled out

Will it be the pastor who was a builder before becoming a baker, or the PE teacher who “bakes in her pyjamas”? The engineer who tries to “push the boundaries of baking” or the one who is “inspired by Far Eastern cuisine”? The new series of the Great British Bake Off is about to begin, meaning many of us will spend the next three months furiously debating the merits of marzipan, macarons and millefeuille.

2015’s show drew an average of 13.4 million viewers per episode, with Nadiya Hussain coming out as the series' winner. A year on and the baker has released a cookbook, titled Nadiya’s Kitchen. So who know's what's in store for this year's contestants?

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[24 August 2016 20:53 · Sally Newall]

Waterworks?

[24 August 2016 20:54 · Sally Newall]

Despite her terrible genoese...we're all loving Candice

[24 August 2016 20:54 · Mattjamesrafc]

"Mirror mirror with the mirror blending into the mirror." I love Candice so much #gbbo

[24 August 2016 20:55 · Sally Newall]

Oh god, they are retiring to THAT table

[24 August 2016 20:56 · Sally Newall]

Btw, in this interlude, if anyone was wondering, the composer of the score is Tom Howes

[24 August 2016 20:56 · Sally Newall]

fun fact

[24 August 2016 20:56 · Sally Newall]

drum roll please.....

[24 August 2016 20:56 · Sally Newall]

Jane is Star Baker!

[24 August 2016 20:57 · Sally Newall]

Oh no, who is going to be "the straight-talking one" now?

[24 August 2016 20:57 · Sally Newall]

In other news, I love Mary's natty bright pink scarf