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Est. 1976Outlook: chuffed
Edition no. 29
Friday, 23 October 2026Every "chuffed" on the telly, logged and judged
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Stacey Hart, well chuffed

By our television staff

Stacey Hart outside the tent, eyes screwed shut, beaming, in a blue top and the show's apron

Still: The Great British Bake Off, Channel 4, 26 September 2017, photographed off the screen

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THE EXCHANGE

Stacey Hart (baker) · 19:25I'm well chuffed.

Badges earned

  • UnpromptedNobody put the word to them first.
  • Aura presentThe chuff aura had a hand in it.
  • Hollywood handshakeChuffed after a handshake from Paul Hollywood.
File
STACEY.CHF
Programme
The Great British Bake Off
Channel
Channel 4
Date
26 September 2017
Time in
19:25
Chuffed
Stacey Hart (baker)
Cause
A handshake from Paul Hollywood, her third, she says (credit: Paul Hollywood (judge))

RATING

3/5 Well chuffed

VERDICT

VERIFIED CHUFF

Truly confirmed. First person, unprompted. Nobody put the word in their mouth.

Verified chuff, intensity 3: well chuffed, in the present tense, with the face to match. The cause is plain: a Paul Hollywood handshake, her third, she says. So she can be chuffed, and her week 8 forecast may not be hot chuffed air after all. That one still stays Hypothetical until week 8.

Seventeen minutes after saying she'd only be chuffed at week 8, she was well chuffed at week 5. Handshakes will do that.

Rules applied

  1. Rule 9: Who gets the credit? Set by this sighting.
  1. 203 Stacey Hart, chuffed if she gets to week 8 Hypothetical