{"id":410082,"date":"2022-12-04T11:04:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T11:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=410082"},"modified":"2022-12-04T11:52:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T11:52:14","slug":"paul-hollywood-and-prue-leith-respond-to-bake-off-mexican-week-controversy-quite-a-few-people-took-offence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/paul-hollywood-and-prue-leith-respond-to-bake-off-mexican-week-controversy-quite-a-few-people-took-offence","title":{"rendered":"Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith respond to Bake Off Mexican Week controversy: \u2018Quite a few people took offence\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith have addressed the backlash to Mexican Week on The Great British Bake Off . One episode in the recent season of the Channel 4 reality series attracted criticism for its &#8220;offensive&#8221; depiction of Mexican food and culture, which many people called cultural appropriation. Fans of the series condemned the stereotypical use of sombreros and maracas in the instalment . The presenters were also criticised for mispronouncing Spanish words and making &#8220;tacky&#8221; jokes. During a recent episode of Eater , Hollywood and Leith were asked about the backlash to the episode. Hollywood said he felt &#8220;gutted&#8221; about the reaction because he &#8220;loves&#8221; Mexico. He said: &#8220;I&#8217;d literally come back from Mexico about three weeks before we filmed the episode. I spent a month over there with Mexican chefs, working with tacos and enjoying the food in Tijuana and Mexico City and Oaxaca and Cancun. &#8220;I was all over the place, and we set the challenges based<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith have addressed the backlash to Mexican Week on The Great British Bake Off.One episode in the recent season of the Channel 4 reality series attracted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrities","category-news","category-tv-videos"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}