**WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS SPOILERS**

TV's favourite baking show The Great British Bake Off returned to our screen's last night - and this time the icing on the cake for Cornwall is that we have a home-grown contestant in the mix.

Described by the show as 'Marc from Cornwall', a 51-year-old bronze resin sculptor who took up baking bread as a form of therapy after losing his leg in a motorcycle accident in 2016, the Packet later revealed he is Marc Elliott, from St Eval near Padstow in north Cornwall.

He was previously listed on LinkedIn as being the owner of Jaromoon, making fine cold cast resin sculptures based at St Eval.

In last night's episode more about him was revealed in that he is a part-time carer and full time single dad to Jasmine and Rosie.

So did he rise to the occasion in week one or was he left at the soggy bottom of the pile? If you haven't seen the show yet then click away now, otherwise read on for a run down of how our man fared...

Viewers learned from the start that Marc, along with the 11 other contestants in this year's show, lived in their own 'bubble' away from their families for up to seven weeks while the show was filmed.

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Their very first signature bake challenged the bakers to create their own take on a Battenberg - and sadly Marc's 'Bittersweet Battenberg' set the tone for the rest of the first episode.

Featuring sour cherry chocolate and walnut sponges, with a highly decorative external design, it was described, somewhat scathingly, by Paul Hollywood as "If Fanny Craddock was going to do a Battenberg that would be it."

Prue Leith was slightly softer in her approach, saying: "I think it's a bit too busy," before commenting that there was a a "good strong cherry" flavour but too much rosewater.

The technical challenge didn't go much better. Asked to make six identical pineapple upside down cakes, Marc confessed he had made a "rookie error" in not buttering the moulds, which led to rough sided cakes having been dug out with a knife.

That said, he made it look like a cake walk compared to fellow contestant Linda whose accurately described her flattened efforts as "more like pineapple fritters than pineapple upside down cake."

Sadly, Paul declared Marc's still tasty looking cakes to be "a bit bitter" due to some overly cooked caramel, placing him 11th out of 12.

Afterwards Marc told the cameras: "I don't like making big mistakes and that was a big mistake."

Heading into the second day and the showstopper challenge, Marc needed a lift.

Unfortunately, the bakers' challenge to recreate a bust of their icon in 3D cake form saw him losing his head - literally.

He chose David Bowie dressed as Ziggy Stardust, but his chocolate and vanilla creation started to collapse in his hands.

"It's all gone wrong," a deflated Marc said.

Later he admitted it "looked more like Jabba the Hut", with the judges describing it as "quite dense" and "slightly over-baked" - although they did also comment on its "great flavour" and praised his "great effort."

Would this be enough to save his apron?

As the judges retired to deliberate, a sad-looking Marc told viewers: "Nobody wants to be the first to go and coming on the show I said I didn't want to be the first.

"But maybe that was my challenge - being the first to go."

However, his luck was in as after some over-flavoured, bright blue bubble gum and ice cream soda Battenburg was followed by a similarly over-chillied chocolate cake fellow contestant Loriea was the first to get the boot.

An overwhelmed Marc said: "I can't believe I'm through to next week. I was sat on the that chair ready to stand up."

Every baker can have a bad day, so it remains to be seen whether Marc can now whip up a better performance next week and keep the Cornish dream alive.

  • The Great British Bake Off is on Channel 4 each Tuesday at 8pm.