About halfway through this week’s ’70s themed episode of The Great British Baking Show on Netflix, host Alison Hammond vamps her way into the tent and then announces, “I’m just gonna add a little bit of happiness in here.” She then proceeds to make a spectacular fool of herself, whiffing a sexy dance move on an empty bench, and flopping onto the floor. It was the latest moment of sheer chaos on this season of The Great British Baking Show and it wasn’t even the first time in “’70s Week” that Alison Hammond had fallen onto her butt for laughs!
**Spoilers for The Great British Baking Show “’70s Week,” now streaming on Netflix**
The most memorable moment of The Great British Baking Show “’70s Week” wasn’t Paul Hollywood lamenting that he was “sick” of giving breakout baker Dylan Bachelet handshakes or a collapsed cake during the Showstopper Challenge. It was, undoubtedly, Alison Hammond’s manic energy and epic falls.
Long-time Great British Baking Show fans are used to a little mayhem in the Bake Off tent, but this latest season, Collection 12 on Netflix, has been especially dramatic. From American baker Jeff’s abrupt departure to Noel Fielding breaking Nelly Ghaffar’s bowl of caramel, this season has been downright anarchic. It only got more so in “’70s Week.” The episode literally opens with a super hyper Alison Hammond entering frame on a large horse-themed hopper ball and promptly falling over. This gag was only foreshadowing for Alison’s craziest moment of The Great British Baking Show yet.
Throughout the first two challenges this week, Alison kept trying again and again to get the bakers energized. At one point, she asks Illiyin Morrison if she’d break out some ’70s dance moves with her, to which Illiyin deadpanned, “No.” As the tension ratcheted up in the tent, Alison seemed determined to lighten the mood by any means necessary. That climaxed during the Banoffee Pie Technical Challenge when she tried to swing her legs around while sitting on a bench and instead rolled herself onto the floor.
Gasps reverberated through the tent as the bakers looked back to only see Hammond’s shoes behind the bench while the hostess lay on her stomach out of sight.
“She fell off!” Georgie Grasso says, concerned.
As the camera swings around to survey the damage, Alison, laughing, cries out, “Don’t come over here! Leave me! Leave me to my shame!”
Illiyin poked her head over to look at Alison, who is in hysterics on the floor. Noel Fielding soon huddles atop of her, hugging her, and comforting his co-host. “The best thing I’ve ever seen, ever!” he says.
“I missed my footing,” Alison says, as she gets up and heads back to sit on the bench once more. “This is what I meant to do.”
“Don’t do it again!” Noel cautions. “I wouldn’t do it again.”
“I went to…” Alison begins moving to try again, but then throws in the towel. “Oh, forget it.”
“I’ll do it tomorrow.”
Alison’s highly physical feat of comedy comes just a week after The Great British Baking Show‘s resident wunderkind, 20-year-old Dylan Bachelet, dragged her for being almost fifty years old. After she insisted she was still just 49 years old, Dylan asked her and Noel if they felt “closer to death,” inspiring Alison to pose the question right back at the Gen Z baker. “You could die before me!” she said.
Well, at least this week, Alison’s life looked to be more in peril. Dylan hasn’t fallen down in the tent since Week 2.