A hairdresser from Kent said stepping into the Great British Bake Off tent for the first time was a “pinch me moment”.<\/p>\n
Lesley, 59, from Eynsford, will be hoping to impress judges Prue Leith and Paul Hollywood when the new series begins on 2 September on Channel 4.<\/p>\n
Speaking to BBC Radio Kent, contestant Lesley said the judges were “extremely friendly” and that taking part on the show has also given her “friends for life”.<\/p>\n
She said: “It was amazing walking into the tent for the first time. It’s iconic and I had a few ‘pinch me’ moments.”<\/p>\n
Lesley mainly bakes for her husband Mark, as well as her family and the hair salon where she works.<\/p>\n
She said she has always loved baking, adding: “It has always been a hobby and a release.”<\/p>\n
She said she had applied for the show “a few times” but “finally managed to get through” this year. <\/p>\n
She said: “Cakes and pastries have always been my strong point but some challenges will push me out my comfort zone – but that will be great.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A hairdresser from Kent said stepping into the Great British Bake Off tent for the first time was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-95940","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\/95940","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=95940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}