Ruby Tandoh: Why so much 'vitriol and misogyny'?

Ex-model says 'sod the haters' in opinion piece for The Guardian

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RUBY TANDOH didn't win last night's final of The Great British Bake Off. But the philosophy student and former model didn't go quietly, writing an opinion piece for The Guardian denouncing the "vitriol and misogyny" directed at the female finalists.

The article, which appeared on the Guardian's website just hours before clothes designer Frances Quinn was declared this year's winner of the top-rating cooking show, marvels at the "nastiness" that a programme about making cakes is capable of generating. Writes Tandoh: "Despite the saccharin sweetness of the Bake Off, an extraordinary amount of bitterness and bile has spewed forth every week from angry commentators, both on social media and in the press".

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