Great British Bake Off Final GBBO Prue Leith Winner

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Let's all just take a minute to thank our lucky stars that we're not Prue Leith right now. This morning, the Great British Bake Off judge committed the cardinal sin of accidentally revealing who had won the final, which doesn't air in the UK until this evening.

In her misjudged tweet – which obviously we're not going to include here and has since been deleted – Leith said she "wanted [all three finalists] to win" before saying "bravo" to one of them. It may seem like the most basic of errors – but she did have a vaguely legitimate reason.

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Speaking in the aftermath of the astronomical gaffe, Leith said she was in Bhutan and confused by the "massive" six-hour time difference between the Asian country and the UK, thinking the show had already aired.

Understandably, she was "in too much of a state to talk about it" in any more detail and has since apologised on Twitter, while Channel 4 said it had no further comment. Things had been going so well with the new-look GBBO that you've really got to feel for her.

I am so sorry to the fans of the show for my mistake this morning, I am in a different time zone and mortified by my error #GBBO.
— Prue Leith (@PrueLeith) October 31, 2017

No surprises for guessing how a large section of Twitter reacted to the blunder – the memes, GIFs and witticisms couldn't be much better. "Bravo" to all involved.

And we cross over live to Prue Leith’s management’s office. pic.twitter.com/LH76ahogKN
— Pete Allison (@Pete_Allison) October 31, 2017

Channel 4: The risk we took on Great British Bake Off has paid off big time. This series has gone perfectly.
Prue Leith: Hold my spatula...
— MostDeaf (@SnoozeActive) October 31, 2017

"Where is Bhutan? Do we have someone in Bhutan?" - the sound of daily newsdesks trying to get the Prue Leith exclusive
— Ned Donovan (@Ned_Donovan) October 31, 2017

Accidentally tweeting the winner of Bake Off cos you can't get the hang of Bhutan time zones is the most middle class thing I can think of
— Camilla Long (@camillalong) October 31, 2017

CH4 : QUICK.. no ones interested in #GBBOfinal since Liam left! we need to do something.

Prue: Hold my Battenberg..
— ?Kym Scally? (@KymScally) October 31, 2017

Many played on the supposed rivalry between Leith and the former dame of GBBO, Mary Berry.

When you finally work out Prue Leith's Twitter password pic.twitter.com/XhwUW1IsMX
— Alex Finnis (@AlexFinnis) October 31, 2017

Mary Berry would not be tweeting from Bhutan. Mary would be in Buckinghamshire with a landline telephone, making a fish pie
— Anita Singh (@anitathetweeter) October 31, 2017

We now cross to Mary Berry's house for live reaction after replacement judge Prue Leith accidentally tweets result of tonight's #GBBOFInal pic.twitter.com/MdqFkFR6HQ
— tomango (@tomangoUK) October 31, 2017

While others suggested Leith could try employing the Kevin Spacey defence.

Has Prue tried to divert attention by tweeting that she’s chosen to live as a gay woman yet? Gotta be worth a shot surely? #GBBO #GBBOFinal
— Ian Hyland (@HylandIan) October 31, 2017

Others were just bloody peeved off, tbh.

the only thing, the ONLY thing I was looking forward to this week was seeing who won the #GBBOFinal THATS RUINED NOW TOO. FFS THANKS PRUE pic.twitter.com/kqPdS9Iiwn
— Urden Krease (@EdenKersse) October 31, 2017