British Bake Off contestant left in tears after knocking rival’s cake on floor

The Great British Bake Off begins tonight in dramatic fashion as a contestant knocks another rival’s cakes on the floor.

The show starts with the 12 contestants challenged to bake six individual cakes.

Pharmacy dispenser Sura, 31, is putting her bake on the gingham table to be judged when she sees a fly and says: “Go away, urgh.”

As she turns around to usher it away she collides with rival contestant Dave Friday, 30 – and four of his six cakes fall to the floor, ruined.

Shocked Sura says: “I’m so sorry. Oh my god. I’m so sorry there was a fly, I went to shoo it away and I knocked it.”

Sura then starts to cry and hosts Noel Fielding and Matt Lucas come in to help defuse the situation.

Later in the Channel 4 show, there are two more disasters when 32-year-old project manager Mark Lutton drops a sponge and Sura herself sees her showstopper cake topple.

A TV source said: “In terms of incident and controversy it is right up there with anything that has happened on the show before. Whilst it is clear what Sura did was not deliberate, the series could not start in much more dramatic fashion.”

The judges were clearly feeling the dramatic tension too, posing like rock band Queen in their iconic Bohemian Rhapsody video to promote the new series.

Maybe the contestants will be challenged to bake a We Will Rock You cake.

The new series of The Great British Bake Off starts on Channel 4 tonight at 8pm.