A new series of Bake Off starts next week, marking Noel Fielding’s third year in the tent. It still hasn’t got any less weird to see him host such a clean-cut show.
Back in his hellraising days in the late 2000s, Noel got turned over by the News Of The World and was coaxed into giving one of those big “MY DRUGS SHAME!” tell-all interviews. After that, he kept his partying a little more low key, hanging out with pals or at private members’ clubs after hours.
He turned up to one such Soho club in the wee small hours shortly after that tabloid run-in to find that friends there had racked up the club’s infamous Yard Of Gak. In honour of the recent press intrusion he’d suffered, everyone thought it was only right that Noel get the first sniff.
But Noel mistook the situation, thinking that the communal coke was a personal challenge – and tried to hoof the whole thing up himself.
He managed about a third of it before someone intervened. |