Bake Off magnificence Rebecca ‘Rebs’ Lightbody is a showstopper in actual life — and these glamorous footage are the proof within the pudding.
Viewers are used to seeing the Ballymena baker donned in an apron and lined in flour as she battles to be Northern Eire’s first winner of the hit Channel 4 collection.
However away from the cameras and the stress of the well-known Nice British Bake Off tent, Rebs has proven she likes to get pleasure from an energetic social life by sharing a sprinkling of gorgeous snaps.
The globe-trotting 23-year-old has posted pics on her social media of journeys to far-flung locations comparable to Turkey, Greece, Italy, Morocco, Spain and Florida — in addition to town of affection, Paris.
Her boyfriend Jack is from Turkey and the eager prepare dinner has mentioned she most lately began to mess around with Center Japanese substances in a nod to his heritage. It’s all a world away from her rural roots in Co Antrim — in week one of many actuality present she saved herself from elimination by recreating a cake model of her distant household residence.
Rebs, who can Irish dance and play the tin whistle, revealed her earliest baking reminiscence is of being a toddler, aged solely three years outdated, serving to her mum within the kitchen, in addition to consuming her granny’s famend lemon meringue pies.
Her day job is as a tech employee however it appears to be like like she is perhaps hoping Bake Off will present a platform for a profession change — she’s arrange a brand new social media account on Instagram referred to as @rebsbakes.
Whereas the attractive clothes proven right here would be the icing on the cake for Rebs’ followers, she faces stiff competitors if she goes to impress judges Prue Leith and Paul Hollywood within the well-known tent.
Rebs, who has a level in economics and finance from Leeds College in addition to a masters in enterprise from Ulster College, did simply sufficient in bread week within the debut episode.
Prue beloved the flavour of her piña colada-flavoured showstopper, with Paul including: “It appears to be like nice and the flavours got here by means of fantastically.”
Final week she took the biscuit within the signature problem by making equivalent macarons modelled on her 15-year-old pet cat, Branston.
The black and purple ‘Wee Branstons’ had been full of chocolate ganache and raspberry coulis which additionally received reward for a way they tasted.
This week’s episode of the Channel 4 present will probably be pizza week — a dish she clearly enjoys, as she confirmed off a selfie of her tucking right into a slice amongst her photographs which she captioned: “Pizza love story.”
■ See how Rebs fares in Week Three of the Nice British Bake Off on Tuesday, Channel 4 at 8pm