Great British Bake Off bread week in chaos as two hopefuls pull out of filming

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Great British Bake Off's bread week was left in chaos as two budding baking hopefuls were forced to pull out of filming. Both Rebs and Abdul will not take part in this week's challenge due to "feeling under the weather", meaning they are still guaranteed a place in the show next week, despite neither winning 'Star Baker' so far in this year's series.

Irish masters student Rebs, 23, is currently at the centre of rumours that she is dating her co-star Sandro after the pair shared a cosy selfie on a day at the beach.

Electronics engineer Abdul, 29, will also miss this week's show but will compete again next week. On tonight's show, host Matt Lucas will announce the news of their absence, but jokes that they've now got a free pass all the way to the final, the Sun reports. "Both Rebs and Abdul are a bit under the weather this week, but with your permission, we thought we’d send them both straight through to the final." His co-host Noel Fielding rushes to clarify that Matt's comments were just in jest, as he says: "Only joking, they’re going to miss a week and hopefully they’ll be back next week." Eagle-eyed fans of GBBO might have noticed that the show's famous white baking tent was in a different location to the last couple of years, and it's been revealed why.

While the scene might seem brand new to newer fans, Bake Off filming has returned to Welford Park in Berkshire - a Grade-I listed stately home - where it was originally filmed from 2014 to 2019.