People Are Obsessed With Sura Selvarajah On Great British Bake Off For This Hilarious Reason…

'It's beyond relatable'

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by Rhiannon Evans |
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It's time to stop messing about and pick your Great British Bake Off favourite - you've had enough time to get to know them now. And for many, it seems the fave is Sura Selvarajah, a pharmacy dispenser from London.

Actually, to be more accurate, people's favourite thing are her incredible expressions - more accurate, her panicked face - even more accurate, her panicked face when anyone gives her any task or time limit.

Twitter is awash with people obsessed with how 31-year-old Sura reacts whenever presenters Matt Lucas and Noel Fielding give a time check in any of the challenges. Yes it's hilarious. But yes, it is all of us if we were stuck in a tent BAKING FOR OUR LIVES.

Sura lives in London with her husband and elderly grandmother. But in giving her strengths and weaknesses in interviews prior to the show, Sura gave no clue as to how much the GBBO Tent would affect her nerves.

'My strengths lie in flavour and balancing of flavours and also making small and dainty bakes – but my weakness is large multi-tiered cakes,' she said, omitting her apparent terror at the sound of a deadline.

As Twitter is LIVING for Great British Bake Off this year, it's perhaps no surprise that Sura's very meme-able face is the one that everyone is loving.

Especially, as Sarah Doran pointed out, 2020 has quite a PANICKED and PERPETUAL fear mood to it, doesn't it?

So far, Sura's had little to fear though (despite what her face might think) with favourable reactions to most of her bakes.

In fact, social media users were also obsessed with Sura's interaction with judge Prue Leith, who particularly enjoyed the tea that she served with her week two biscuits.

It'll have thrilled Sura, who's said: 'I was looking forward to meeting Prue the most. I have watched her for many years on TV and I just loved her passion for food and flavours and her immense knowledge on it all. She inspired a lot of my baking in my early 20s.'

Oh, and we should ALSO mention that people love Sura's VT in which she took her cat for a walk on a lead. Because, well, it's iconic, isn't it?

It's been a great recovery for Sura, from potential villain to fan favourite. In week one, Sura (now infamously) knocked over contestant Dave's pineapple upside down cake while they were placing them down for judging. She said she was swatting a fly and seemed devastated - before winning the technical challenge. To many twitter lols.

But a week and a lot of cake and biscuits later, it just became a running joke, with presenter Noel Fielding even laughing with Sura about the incident.

Now she's ridden it out, to become one of Twitter's favourites.

Relatability? Good tea? Master saboteur? Or just great baker? No matter what it is, it's obvious to see that in social media world, Sura is an early favourite to be Queen of the Bake Off tent.

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