Great British Bake Off: Lizzie’s most memorable moments as the Liverpool contestant leaves the show

Great British Bake Off contestant Lizzie Acker left the baking tent for good on Tuesday night as she became the latest contestant to be eliminated from the Channel 4 show.

The Liverpudlian reached the quarter-final stage but came up just short in Free From Week despite “pulling out an ace” with her showstopper.

After two rounds of creating sausage rolls and ice cream free from dairy, gluten or meat it all came down to the final challenge with Lizzie and Crystelle neck-and-neck.

Lizzie finally delivered the finesse the judges had been calling for over recent weeks by producing a stunning two-tier cake that celebrated “being different”.

But it was too late to save the 28-year-old, who was pipped to the final spot in the semi-finals by Crystelle.

The Scouser will be sorely missed on the show as she has left the GBBO presenters and audience in stitches with her bizarre stories and quick wit.

Lizzie’s funniest and most memorable moments

Lizzie, who lives with her partner and their dog, Prudence, in an annex in her parents’ garden, started the series with a surreal story relayed to presenter Noel Fielding about an ‘unhinged’ ostrich riding off with her as a child.

The tale seemed so incredible, she later took to social media to post photographic evidence of the ostrich fiasco.

Lizzie also admitted to the other GBBO presenter Matt Lucas that she was watching Harry Potter instead of practising baking.

Other gems from Lizzie include: “Stick to what you know when you don’t know nothing.”

And sharing that her “deceased pet pig Susie, who slipped on ice” was the inspiration behind her Pig Banquet Milk Bread Display showstopper.

In week four of the show, Lizzie presented Birkenhead-born judge Paul Hollywood with a miniature purple bin emblazoned with the slogan “I’m wheelie born in Liverpool.”

The iconic purple bins are only issued to residents living within in Liverpool City Council boundaries and if you have one, you’re deemed a ‘real Scouser’.

Other areas such as Sefton, Knowsley and Wirral - where Hollywood is from - do not have them.

Lizzie has also come up with a string of memorable quotes throughout the show, including “I’m so nervous even my elbows are sweaty” in pastry week and “I can’t be trusted with molten sugar” in caramel week.

The Freya friendship

When her good friend and vegan baker Freya Cox left the show in week five, Lizzie said goodbye in typically unique style when she revealed they both now have matching tattoos.

The duo struck up a special bond from the moment they first met in the famous GBBO tent and have continued that relationship outside the show.

Car production operative Lizzie and 19-year-old psychology student Freya, from Scarborough, meet up most weekends and even share clothes.

Dyslexia and ADHD

She also revealed on social media last month that she is severely dyslexic and on the attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) spectrum.

Lizzie is pictured on her Instagram page with the latest GBBO cookbook The Great British Bake Off: A Bake for all Seasons featuring judges recipes and favourites from the 2021 bakers.

She said: “For anyone to see themselves in a book is surreal, but for me it feels super odd. I am severely dyslexic and on the ADHD spectrum. I don’t read books, so having recipes I came up with in a book is mind blowing.”

A farewell letter

After being eliminated in Tuesday night’s GBBO quarter-final Lizzie described being on the show as “the biggest rollercoaster of my life so far”.

And in her sign off, she proved typically witty, calling on the show’s fans to join her anti-finesse movement.