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Becoming a fan favorite due to his obvious enthusiasm, rumpled academic vibes, and general sweetheart nature

Although there is Discourse about his accent

Favors historical and especially Egyptian themed bakes

Lovingly recreating the precise lemon tart he had on holiday in the country and hasn’t stopped thinking about since (the fact that he shared it with Layla has absolutely nothing to do with that, thank you very much)

Is absolutely one of the people on the floor in front of their oven

Doing really well in the Signatures (he practices a lot)

Being slightly too ambitious in the Showstoppers, but gaining a reputation for gorgeously impressive cakes with thoughtful details (his necropolis cake was a surprise favorite)

Getting flustered in a Technical to the point that Marc takes the wheel which… is not an improvement

Jake takes over and executes the directions so flawlessly that they come in first

• all of his bakes are also vegan to keep with kosher—he’s a whiz at whisking up aquafaba

• he’s constantly talking about layla on the show (“my love’s favorite dessert …” + “layla really loves these flavors …” + “she’s been my biggest support this whole competition”)

• has probably the lowest confidence of all the competitors but he’s genuinely really good at what he does?? he has all of the technical/basics down but what really stands out are his flavors since he doesn’t stick to common British flavors

• has definitely fallen asleep while only waiting for something to bake during a technical and everyone was like “??” how tf is he sleeping right now

• one time he wore his glasses during an episode and all the viewers were like 🧍🏻‍♀️🧍🏻‍♀️🧍🏻‍♀️

• no one knows he has DID but sometimes Steven jokes about “having a little voice in his head helping him” and it’s just Marc and Jake yelling at Steven to not forget to pre-heat the oven since he forgot to during the very first signature

• HAS WON BREAD WEEK I WILL NOT ARGUE ON THIS his vegan challah cleared EVERYONE (dessert week was iffy for him because of setting since he can’t use gelatin)

• he makes a point to base all of his bakes on his travels and doesn’t just stick to classic British bakes

• he’s made at least one dessert dedicated to his loved ones though he never names them (has definitely made a dessert dedicated to marc but was like “this is dedicated to a close friend of mine who’s always been there for me since we were kids” 🥹)

• the judges cannot handle the intensity of his flavors most of the time (they probably couldn’t handle a bottle of ketchup either) but Steven continues to do whatever flavors he wants

• somehow has really delicate and elaborate bakes but he can be very jumpy—tries not to let the stress get to him (using the “swan” analogy they love to use on gbbo)