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Ofcom hit with complaints after Matt Lucas burns Boris on Bake Off

The regulator said that it had received 181 complaints about the episode - the vast majority of which referred to the Little Britain comic's riff on the prime minister's coronavirus response.

Henry Goodwin by Henry Goodwin
2020-09-24 10:57
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Nearly 200 angry viewers fired off complaints to Ofcom after comedian Matt Lucas opened the new series of The Great British Bake Off with a hilarious impression of Boris Johnson.

The regulator said that it had received 181 complaints about the episode – the vast majority of which referred to the Little Britain comic’s riff on the prime minister’s coronavirus response, which saw him wearing a bumbling behind a podium in a blonde wig.

Channel 4 aired the segment just minutes after Johnson addressed the nation to introduce new Covid-19 restrictions. Seven million people tuned into the episode – a spike of a million from last year’s launch.

Poking fun at the government’s U-turns, Lucas told viewers to “bake in a tent if they want to, but don’t bake in a tent” – in a callback to his viral Twitter clip mocking Johnson’s many coronavirus flipflops.

Watch the clip for yourself here.

Bake Off’s impeccably-timed take pic.twitter.com/OWUDFPINgl

— Calgie (@christiancalgie) September 22, 2020

Related: Watch: This Matt Lucas video on Boris is more spot on than ever

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