Bingate

English

Etymology

bin +‎ -gate

Proper noun

Bingate

  1. (UK, informal) A controversy involving a 2014 episode of The Great British Bake Off, in which a contestant threw his failed baked Alaska into a bin; the television editing misleadingly suggested that another contestant had sabotaged the dish.
    • 2017, Anita Singh, The Story of The Great British Bake Off
      Things got more complicated when Bingate turned out to be Diana's last appearance on Bake Off. It was an unhappy coincidence […]
    • 2020, Patrick Barwise, Peter York, The War Against the BBC
      In the notorious Bingate incident during series five, contestant Iain was shown throwing away his Baked Alaska because it had not fully set. Initially, suspicion for causing this fell on another contestant, Diana […]
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