For many of the nation, watching a baking present after you’ve got already stuffed your face with copious quantities of turkey and mince pies could not sound like a good suggestion.
However for followers of the legendary Channel 4 comedy Peep Present, one star could have ‘saved Christmas’ after their look within the Nice British Bake Off Christmas Particular 2025.
Reunited for the primary time because the sitcom went off air ten years in the past, David Mitchell, Isy Suttie, Matt King, Sophie Winkleman and Olivia Colman (Mark, Dobby, Superhans, Large Suze and Sophie within the sequence) examined their fingers within the Bake Off tent.
This quintet of bakers tried to impress judges Prue Leith and Paul Hollywood, whereas presenters Noel Fielding and Alison Hammond returned to their ordinary duties.
Nonetheless, following Olivia’s victory on the Christmas particular, viewers declared that “life is now full.”
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@V_M_B__ stated on social media: ‘Olivia Coleman on celeb baking competitors might need saved Christmas TV.’
@AnthonyShannon2 added: ‘We have fallen down the completely pleasant rabbit gap of @BritishBakeOff as soon as once more.
‘A much-needed comforting hug in TV type. Loved The Nice Peep Present Christmas Bake Off, now onto the following season of The Nice British Bake Off…’
@JR_Dickenson additionally acknowledged that they “simply lived for the Peep Present Bake Off particular and it definitely did not disappoint.”
Who performed the Bake Off forged in Peep Present?
David Mitchell: David Mitchell performed the painfully awkward Mark Corrigan. In fact, Mark is finest recognized for by accident proposing to a girl, falling in love along with his boss Alan Johnson, unintentionally befriending a racist, oh, and he wrote Enterprise Secret of the Pharohs (or was that Mark Crorigan?)
Isy Suttie: Isy performed Dobbie, one in all Mark’s unluckier love pursuits.
Matt King: Matt King performed the deranged maniac Tremendous Hans, who as soon as ran to Windsor and located A-Class substances a bit extra.
Sophie Winkleman: Earlier than she grew to become a member of the royal household by means of her marriage, Sophie performed the candy Large Suze.
Olivia Colman: Though she’s now a nationwide treasure and the toast of Tinsel City, Olivia as soon as performed Sophie, Mark’s love curiosity and eventual spouse… earlier than all of it fell aside.
In the meantime, @DobbyClub06 stated Olivia’s recreation of the homeless ball pit was “completely ICONIC.”
@madgekin equally added that her presence on the present is “PERFECTION,” including, “I have never seen a peep present however I really feel like a child in a sweet retailer #GBBO.”
Whereas most viewers had been thrilled to see the forged reunited, many had been disillusioned to see that Robert Webb (Jeremy) and Paterson Joseph (Johnson) weren’t within the lead roles.
@RRcpfc wrote on social media: ‘I am an enormous fan of Peep Present Bake Off however no Johnson or Jez?????’
Nonetheless, in the direction of the tip of the episode, Robert appeared briefly by way of video hyperlink to want individuals a Merry Christmas.
This is not the primary time Peep Present alumni have entered the Bake Off tent both.
In 2015, David appeared within the Comedian Reduction particular, which he discovered unnerving.
“I used to be fairly harassed about it beforehand,” he informed the Radio Occasions.
‘In occasions of stress I discover that I’m fairly good at not fascinated by it. Whereas a sure sort of individual would scale back their stress ranges by making ready for the problem forward, I used to be higher off dwelling in denial that I had agreed to do it within the first place.”
The Nice British Bake Off Christmas Particular is offered to stream on Channel 4.
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