{"id":787502,"date":"2026-09-30T14:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T14:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/787502\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T14:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T14:20:09","slug":"danni-from-dorset-becomes-first-contestant-to-leave-bake-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/787502\/","title":{"rendered":"Danni from Dorset becomes first contestant to leave Bake Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Danni explained to Hollywood and fellow judge Nigella Lawson that they were vegan so could not try their own cinnamon &#8220;Snickerdoodle&#8221; cookies, topped with peanut brittle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tasting the bakes, Lawson said the cookies had &#8220;too much cinnamon and bicarb&#8221;, adding: &#8220;It&#8217;s impossible to know what you are baking if you don&#8217;t taste it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following their elimination, Danni said: &#8220;I am really happy that I was the first one out because I know everyone in there has more skills than me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But I think I&#8217;ve learned something about myself, which is that in the right circumstances I can make quite a few friends. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Finding love in a group of strangers \u2013 that&#8217;s just beautiful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They added: &#8220;Of all the bakers there, I was easily the weakest, which isn&#8217;t bad at all. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It means I have 11 other people to bug about baking questions now whenever I want.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Danni explained to Hollywood and fellow judge Nigella Lawson that they were vegan so could not try their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":787503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-787502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}