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I got the first handshake, he said.
My moms gonna cry.
It has changed from a cute gesture to something thats threatening to ruin what is best aboutBake Off.
Season four also had only one, and season five had two.
Even Paul seems aware that he has been giving out too many.
Hesaidlast season that after being given out all over the shop, the handshakes would soon dry up.
And last seasons winner, Sophie Faldo,thinkshes being a bit more stingy with them this time around.
But here we are in the third week, and he has already given out one.
Yes, thats a slower rate than last year but still pretty early in the competition.
As Michael himself said, he received the first there is an expectation that there will be more.
Its so much a part of the show there werenews articlesabout the one he delivered to Michael last week.
It was almost sweet.
Its almost like his arm-pumping is mansplaining baking to us.
The eyebrows raised incan you believe Im praising you?mock-benevolence.
At the time,he toldRadio Times, I became the most hated man in the country!
If he could be nicer to the bakers, maybe Twitter would be a little bit nicer to him?
Paul is the man you really need to win over.
The bakers already want to impress him this week more than they do Prue.
Hell, Id start calling exemplary works fetch if I thought it would catch on.
Or maybe the show just needs to codify what the handshake means.
Maybe it needs to become like the save onAmerican Idolof old, where each judge gets only one.
That idea would never work, and it goes against the spirit of the show anyway.
It is not about winning.
Its not only undignified, its against the point entirely.
