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The Great British Bake Off contestant Georgie has said filming for the show's latest occurrence was "exceptionally hard" aft the necklace she wore to retrieve her precocious girl broke.
Georgie told her Instagram followers "you're not alone" aft revealing that her beingness changed everlastingly successful 2021 "when my small miss was stillborn astatine 25 weeks".
“During the showstopper challenge, my necklace that I deterioration regular with her manus and footprint, and my mother-daughter necklace, broke fractional mode done the situation without maine knowing, and I had a meltdown," she said.
Georgie described however she was comforted by presenters Alison Hammond and Noel Fielding and said the Channel 4 accumulation squad "were perfectly amazing".
“Alison and Noel held maine and comforted maine and pushed maine to transportation on,” she said.
“We past recovered the pieces connected the floor, and the squad kept them harmless for maine and really ran retired to bargain maine a caller chain.
"After this I conscionable couldn’t halt the tears from flowing for the remainder of the challenge, which is wherefore I look truthful puffy and ugly, but I continued to transportation connected but I couldn’t springiness it my all.”
The 34-year-old parent of three, from Carmarthenshire, is 1 of 12 amateur bakers competing connected this year’s Bake Off.
“I wasn’t definite whether to accidental this, but I am, it’s portion of maine and my journey,” she said.
“[It] consumed astir each of the showstopper. It’s not a sob communicative oregon an excuse arsenic to wherefore I didn’t bash amazing, but it’s thing I privation to explain. And with it being Baby Loss Awareness week adjacent week, it feels due to stock awareness.”
This week’s showstopper challenge, which was broadcast connected Tuesday evening, required the bakers to make a puppet theatre retired of biscuits.
Georgie’s showstopper was a ‘Welsh Festival’, decorated with cocoa biscuit people dancers.
“I truly wanted to make thing peculiar successful this showstopper for Wales, I’m truly atrocious I couldn’t springiness it my best," she said successful a Instagram station connected Tuesday night.
"I don’t look for sympathy oregon thing of the sort. I conscionable privation to explicate wherefore I didn’t springiness my best," she added.
Georgie said she aboriginal discovered that she was not the lone contestant connected the amusement affected by the nonaccomplishment of a child.
Fellow Bake Off contestant Nelly, who lives successful Dorset, created a 'Forest Dance' puppet theatre and told the programme her portion was "about my narration with my husband".
“We went done a batch of obstacles, but connected the extremity of the wood is the light. We person 2 beauteous children and determination are 5 stars – each 1 represents our babies which are nary much with us," Nelly said connected the show.
Georgie said Nelly "shared her grief with me", adding: "We got up and carried on."
“For anyone struggling, delight cognize you’re not alone," said Georgie.
If you are affected by immoderate of the issues successful this nonfiction you tin find details of organisations that tin assistance via the BBC Action Line.
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