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Greg Nussen

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Comedian who co-hosts a weekly recap of The Great British Baking Show. Hosts The Great British Baking Pod alongside Tessa Hersh, Jonathan Braylock and Nicholas Scheppard, with an episode for each week of the season, including Biscuit Week and Patisserie Week.

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Greg Nussen hosts The Great British Baking Pod .

Recently: “S17ep04 - Bread Week” on The Great British Baking Pod (November 2026); “S17ep02 - Biscuit Week” on The Great British Baking Pod (October 2026); “S16ep10 - The Final” on The Great British Baking Pod (November 2025); “S16ep09 - Patisserie Week” on The Great British Baking Pod (November 2025); “S16ep08 - Dessert Week” on The Great British Baking Pod (November 2025); “S16ep06 - Pastry Week” on The Great British Baking Pod (October 2025).

What They Said

The hosts had been treating Bread Week as the episode that reveals the true frontrunners. He pushes back, arguing its importance is something the show built around Paul Hollywood's reputation.

The Great British Baking Pod · 2026-11-01 Permalink → Listen →
The Great British Baking Pod Around 23:34 into the episode
Greg Nussen

Gary's was weak in flavor, they said. Connie's was fine, not enough garlic. Like basically, he did well and everybody else did not.

Jonathan Braylock

He was criticizing everybody, but some, but a lot of, I mean, we had two bakes that could have eaten that were inedible.

Greg Nussen

I mean, yes. And also, I think going back to what Tessa was saying, this bread thing, it's a little bit self-mythologizing. Paul Hollywood is the most brilliant man in the world. And, you know, because there's not any, there's not any like literal reason why this week should count more than any other week. The only reason that we all now say that is because they've built it up this way because of Paul's reputation as a bread master.

Jonathan Braylock

Right. You guys,

Tessa Hersh

I'm just looking on Wiki. Nikki is out with Nikki actively with Truo.

Nicholas Scheppard

Well, Tom is not the only one. Tom is not the only one who does well this challenge. Nikki also does well, but absolutely. Right, that's right. And they very quickly, in this section of the episode, chronologically that we're on just reveal that Nikki had to jet. And we immediately go to Allison…

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