What's the craziest thing you've done after sinking a few glasses of wine? Regaled the pub with a tone-deaf rendition of Sweet Caroline, perhaps, or hopped on a table to do the macarena. In 2015, after getting winetipsy with her little sister Hebe, Flora Shedden applied to be a contestant on The Great British Bake Off. “We did it on a whim, thinking it would be funny,” she recalls. “But then they called me back, invited me to an interview, and everything snowballed…”
At nineteen, Flora was catapulted into the public eye when she became the reality show's youngest-ever semi-finalist – an experience she found “incredibly daunting”. “I wouldn't have done it if I'd known what it would be like to have that level of exposure, with
