GREAT British Bake Off star Steven Carter-Bailey has revealed the strict rule that production staff warned the bakers about that was NEVER mentioned on screen.
Steven, 39, narrowly missed out on being crowned winner of the Channel 4 show in 2017.
The marketer, from Watford, shot to fame during his stint on eighth series of the baking competition five years ago.
During an exclusive chat with The Sun, the TV star opened up about his time on the much-loved show, and revealed all the secrets that viewers would love to know about.
He told us that they usually filmed for each episode over the weekend, and they had a number of regulations they had to follow.
Steven said: "The same outfit must be worn on both days.
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"For anybody with long hair, your hair had to be tied up. If your hair is tied up on the first day, it must be tied up on the second day.
"And if you wear makeup, you have to wear it on both days, nail varnish is worn on both days."
Steven and the other stars had to be extremely careful while baking and make sure they didn't get any mess on their outfits.
So to make things easier, the bakers were allowed to bring in two of the same item if they wanted to.
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He went on to say: "They did say some people if you're going to buy a new outfit for it, and you're worried about it getting dirty.
"You can buy too as long as identical, but there's no laundry service. So just be wary of things that whites.
"The reason being is just editing, you know, they would have to they would cut bits of both days and piece them together."
Steven, and his other co-stars including Liam Charles, Kate Lyon and Stacey Hart also took extreme measures to make sure that nobody found out their identity before the show aired.
"As we were baking in the tent, when we'd finished and we'd left we had to stop in the entryway and take our aprons off and give our aprons to an assigned member of the crew," he told us.
"So if anybody got photographed, it was a crew member. And we then looked like part of the crew. It was just stuff like that.
"And they were like, if you if you have dark glasses, please wear them."
Steven isn't the only former Bake Off star who has given an insight into the show.
Series seven star Selasi Gbormittah, 36, explained what really happensif the bakers run out of time during the challenges.
The banker shot to fame on the seventh series of the programme in 2016, when it appeared on the BBC.
He told us: "So everyone has the same time. The thing is, no one can really complain because for the signature and showstopper, you plan at home, you study your recipes weeks in advance.
"I mean I'm talking like I did that, but I've never really practised much, but if you practice at home, a lot of the time you would know you can complete something in two hours, but practising at home and actually taking it in the tent are completely different.
"In the tent something would always happen. It could be the temperature, you forget to turn on your oven, or something doesn't turn out as you practised at home.
"So there's different elements to it all when you're baking in the tents, but you do have two hours to complete it."
Yet giving insight into the tips and tricks of the Bake Off trade, he continued: "There are always people running around which you don't get to see. There are so many people behind the cameras making this work, it's a really well oiled machine where everyone is, you know, helping us and taking away all of our empty stuff.
"They are making sure it's ready – so you don't see any of that at all.
"But there are people behind the camera men, who are basically picking up things, just making sure you have everything, if you need extras, they will provide that for you so you're not stuck with either the same amount of ingredients that you have on your recipe that you've submitted.
"So if you're trying to make a meringue and it fails, you can ask for more egg whites more sugar.
"But you don't see any of that!”
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