This letter complaining about the Great British Bake Off to the Metro is both sublime and ridiculous

The Great British Bake Off is back on our screens and, once again, everybody’s talking about Paul Hollywood’s soggy bottom and Mary Berry’s polite disdain.  However, not everybody is happy with the latest series, as this letter published by the Metro shows.With the title ‘BBC has gone too far this time’, David Shand writes:

“I wish to complain in the strongest possible terms about the mess the BBC has made of the Great British bake Off; actions which I fear have rendered it unwatchable.

Considering it has been so successful I cannot conceive of what possessed them to mess with the winning format to this degree.

I refer, of course, to the unfathomable decision to allow the Bake Off squirrel to be replaced by a pheasant.

Squirrel was the gel that held the show together.  His silent but oh-so-telling commentary, his ability to break the tension with just a sideways glance, a chew of a nut … they were as vital as Hollywood’s stare or Mary’s soggy bottom.

All the pheasant does is strut around mugging for the camera and ruining the flow of the show.  No charm, no subtlety.  The show left in tatters.  The decision to bring in a snooty pheasant smacks of the BBC elitism we had been promised was a thing of the past.

I for one won’t stand for it.  I demand squirrel returns, or I shall boycott the show entirely.”

Let’s hope somebody at the Beeb is paying attention or this pheasant could be the wrong kind of showstopper!