Nice tummy wow's. Quite a few straining buttons Could be one of the reasons matt's has been wearing so many jumpers and cardie to hide all the wow's lovely pics
Such a shame it wasn't matt in the hot tub a the end


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Lovely shirt and cardie, but not sure they go together with the trews, still looks lovely tho


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I'm back from my week away - have seen Countryfile and some of The One Show but still need to catch up properly. Looks like the nice weather persuaded Matt to step away from the layers and undo another button on the shirt

And back to the picspams with The One Show from the 6th May with guest Carolin Quentin. It was a bank holiday so they started the show at 6:30pm and ran for 40 minutes (and they started with a joke about the Helen Mirren noisy drummers - Dave was practicing drums, Matt had his fingers in his ears, and Alex told Dave to shut up )

Matt was wearing a pale blue shirt and tan chinos.

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Evening....haven't managed to get on here the last few days...too many other things going on at the moment!

Welcome back KK and thanks for the latest pics......all very wonderful

Some favourites......

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You can never get too much of knee-hugging

Great CF tonight especially as we had six Matts for the price of one! So there is a cloning technique, hurrah If only it was for real. Mr B looked adorable both inside the castle in his lovely grey t-shirt and jacket and thereafter in his goggles chipping away at the outer castle walls. We saw more of him this week than last (or so it seems) so all bakerettes are more than happy

Meant to have said thanks to you SkyBlue for welcoming me back last week from my Eurod*sney break. Am now getting ready for a quick trip this weekend, think I'm getting all-holidayed out!

Hope everyone has a great evening and good sleeps. CCM :sleep: xx

Evening all

A cloudy day here, after yesterday lovely sunny day, it would be nice if the weekend could mange two nice sunny days

A good cf, not sure about the piece on the fairies, good name for Adams highland calf

Matt had fun at castle Drogo. A lovely angle of matt standing in front of the castle , wrapped up in a few layer and a scarf, which I was glad to see was taken off in side the castle, a very nice snug zip up top, showing off his shoulders very nicely and a nice bit of stretching about in the kitchen with a tshirt riding up
Good views at the top of the castle, it did look a bit windy up there,he got his hands on some tools to play with and playing in the garden, a busy boy gardening.

Nice unbuttonage and good bonus standing up views, lovely pics kk

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Welcome back kk. And what a lovely One show night you've chosen for your return. Pale blue shirt and tan chinos really shouldn't go together but.....

All of these are gorgeous but I've chosen a few I like particularly well

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And must have one serious one amongst all this joviality
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Matt looking his most gorgeous best made up for Caroline Quentin being on - for me anyway

Evening all

Matts back into a cardie, but it was a nice snug one, with a lovely pale yellow shirt on underneath which had a good unbuttonage and nice stubble , a nice close up when he was drinking out of the mug good bonus standing up

Mark was a good guest, great chocolate picture of him wonder if they all had a nibble of it after the show, quite a nice song.

Nice pink shirt, but too buttoned up, good standing up views, lovely


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Morning all. I wish Matt had lost the cardigan on last night's show (I quite like the lemon shirt and it was nicely unbuttoned). Some people wish he'd lost the shirt and just had the cardigan (either is OK... ). But it was nice to be able to watch the show live again and Mark Owen was a good guest.

Ratings are in:

Countryfile - 3.05m (24% share) 5th most watched show of the day
The One Show - 3.43m (18% share) 9th most watched show of the day

Countryfile was obviously hit by being on so early but still did amazingly well given that. Absolutely everything else in the top 10 was on later when more people were watching TV. The One Show's audience share was a bit low yesterday - it looks like Emmerdale was high though so I guess there's a good storyline at the moment

Evening A tiggery and denim-clad Matt with the Quo tonight - expect a big audience tuned in. Still very good figures for both CF and OS over the last couple of days. So many things seem to influence the ratings.....weather, competing programmes, time of transmission, etc. etc. It's a science

My favourite pic of the moment, thanks KK:

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And this is pretty damn gorgeous as well...

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What's not to like

Evening all

A good tos with Status Quo, they were very chatty, bet they could tell some stories

A happy bouncy Matt, he looked fabulous in his denim short, lovely dark blue colour and nice unbuttonage stubble come on well. gawgus.

Onto the 7th May with the picspams and the guest was Lord Alan Sugar (to promote the return of The Apprentice)

Matt was wearing a pink shirt and grey trousers

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Great rating for last night's One Show 4.25m (22% audience share)

But a warning - stay away from the Matt thread in the main TV forum as it was started by someone being positive about him and turned into the "we hate Matt, he's rubbish" thread for the usual people...

I am suitably warned
Great rating anyway.

Not my favourite shirt as you can imagine. However, it has the advantage of having buttons in the right places that allows for more of them to be undone, which is not always the case, and there are some great pics here.

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Thanks kk.

Evening all

A brilliant start to tos . love matt in his xmas party hat, eating peanuts with his feet up on the table,

Haven't watched downton so missed the xmas episode that caused all the tears
Dan was a very good guest, lovely too. Alex seem quite taken with him
A good tos shame it was only half hour, it would have been good to have our hour tonight

Matt was full of beans tonight, nice shirt with good unbuttonage and a few low wow's and stubble is good,looking gawgus, hair getting to a nice length now, must be due for a mopchop

It's the 8th of May and a one hour One Show (these have now gone missing again - pity as tonight's show could have done with being longer…). The guests were Betty Boothroyd, Rebecca Adlington, and Honor Blackman.

Matt was wearing a red jumper, white shirt, and black jeans

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Hello – Wednesday OS was back to 30 mins. It was a good show; they had to rush at the end though. Good guests this week so far and Alex kept informing us Matt’s all-day-long-singing. It sounds he has been happy and lively at the OS HQ. And I think the-art-of-doing-nothing is a great chance to develop the pot-belly.

Matt gave us a hit at the end of the CF last Sun that he might have to take his check shirt out for next CF filmed in North Wales. The massive check shirt would suit for the activities in story he would cover and I am sure he’d still be looking lovely, (even in a plastic pinny!)

Lovely to see you back in actions KK.


It depends how you’d define ‘a fan’, Rita. Only joking…. Tennis is one of the sports I enjoy watching most (I have so many interests but cricket is excluded even the bakercricket is emerging and seemed successful in the world of bakerettes.)

When I posted my message, I just read the headlines, not the contents of the news on the BBC website. I’d have known what was going on otherwise. I used to watch all grand slams with my family as we had sky. Now no sky available at my flat so no idea when and what sports are on telly. I managed to watch the third rounds on Sat & Sun a week before the finals on ITV 4. Saw Rafa beating Fabio 3 sets, Roger’s slip and fall after leading 1 set and a glimpse of Novak. I lost my concentration after seeing Roger’s fall. I was keen to watch the French Open cos I was hoping I’d see him in the final at least. But I was happy to see Rafa won making a history of winning 8 titles in a single slam.

Tennis has become like strictly to me cos it has reached its peaks. Strictly is no longer one of my great interests anymore though I still like watching tennis cos men are in great shapes wishing Matt in Roger and Rafa’s outfits hoping he’d keep his pot belly down. From my perspective, the greatest matches of all time were the Wimbledon finals between Roger and Rafa in 2007 & 2008 if I remember correctly. It has reached its highest peaks as strictly did in 2010 if you know what I mean. The games are still great to watch but not that epic and nail-biting as I saw in my life time. Bonus watching on BBC is the expert analysis from Boris and John or even Tim minus Andrew. His commentaries were bias and misleading as if Roger wasn’t good and fit enough at the Wimbledon last year which made me fad up with him. The women are not powerful players like the men so the games are not very exciting. I did like Amelie Mauresmo a lot though. She looked tough and strong like a man when she played; when she let her hair down and smiled she looked unbelievably lovely and girly.


Heehee… He actually did wear that grey suit at the YFC AGM awarding ceremony this year and here is the evidence the suit is still in one piece.
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I have been tracking down Matt’s history of commentary on the artistic gymnastics after reading Blue Peter producer/director/cameraman Alex Leger's book - Behind the Badge and found out his gymnastics commentary debut was on the World Championships held in Melbourne in 2005.

This is an extract from his book (thanks to Sarah)
Matt Baker had been asked to commentate at the World Gymnastics by the BBC Sport and I have to supervise him making a film about his role and the England team.

Pic of (young) Matt in Melbourne 2005:
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I knew that Matt presented and commentated on the gymnastics at the Glasgow Grand Prix in 2006. It’s was long ago so hard to track it down by now.

Later I found this piece of news from the BBC site reporting that he was meant to be in the commentary box alongside Mitch and Christine at the Gymnastics European Championships 2007 held in Amsterdam in April:

As for the gymnastics itself, all the action from Amsterdam can be seen live on interactive via the red button, with highlights on BBC TWO at 1355 BST on Sunday.

Britain will have nine gymnasts (three women and six men) at these European Championships. They were be competing against 41 countries for 12 medals in front of over 6,000 fans at the Amsterdam Exhibition Centre.

Mitch Fenner and Christine Still will talk you through the event in the company of Matt Baker, although with the imminent arrival of his first baby, Matt`s presence in the commentary box is not guaranteed!
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/sportedit...teractive.html

I don’t know whether or not the workaholic Mr Baker was absent in the commentary box in Amsterdam. (He married in 2004 but Luke was born in 2007 so almost 3 years late.) Anyway, regardless of becoming a brand-new daddy, Matt was definitely in the commentary box in the World Gymnastics Championships 2007 held in Germany in Sept:

Matt Baker presents highlights of the women's and men's all-around competition, featuring Tweddle, and the day's individual apparatus finals on Saturday 8 September (2-4pm) on BBC One and highlights of Sunday's individual finals on BBC Two (9 September, 6-6.30pm).
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pre...mnastics.shtml

Here, the evidence of Matt commentating alongside Christine and Mitch on the women's all-around final:

2007 World Gymnastics-All-Around Final-Part 1
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2007 World Gymnastics-All-Around Final-Part 2
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2007 World Gymnastics-All-Around Final-Part 3
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2007 World Gymnastics-All-Around Final-Part 4
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2007 World Gymnastics-All-Around Final-Part 5
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2007 World Gymnastics-All-Around Final-Part 6
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2007 World Gymnastics-All-Around Final-Part 7
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2007 World Gymnastics-All-Around Final-Part 8
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2007 World Gymnastics-All-Around Final-Part 9
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2007 World Gymnastics-All-Around Final-Part 10
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2007 World Gymnastics-All-Around Final-Part 11
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2007 World Gymnastics-All-Around Final-Part 12
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2007 World Gymnastics-All-Around Final-Part 13
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2007 World Gymnastics-All-Around Final-Part 14
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2007 World Gymnastics-All-Around Final-Part 15
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2007 World Gymnastics-All-Around Final-Part 16
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Enjoy listening to the lovely voice of Mr Baker!

Good afternoon...

I see DCI Baker is back in the office....

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And very relaxed here:

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And pretending to be asleep

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Not so keen on this outfit but Matt wears all clothes well...

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Lovely man!

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Great OS last night with Matt and Alex acting out the Christmas Day scenario....how hilarious Dan was a great guest and the show ended much too soon If the beeb are going to shelve the hour-long show on a Wednesday then there'll never be any time for more leisurely discussions, more in-depth chat or longer quizzes or 'fun' events This is a backward step for the OS and I do hope the men in suits at the beeb reconsider!

Thank you for all your hard work Emma in compiling the commentary history of our lovely Matt - a real labour of love! I may not be able to listen to all of the commentaries but I'll pick a couple in order to listen to his mellifluous voice and see whether it's changed or not Being a gymnast commentator since 2006 means he's a 'senior' broadcaster now. It was so frustrating when viewers said 'why's Matt Baker commentating on the Olympics' last year. Think we put most of them right

Off for more retail therapy with daughter and granddaughter later - even more holidays to shop for

lovely knee hugging, the shirt is nicely unbuttoned and matt should rolled up his sleeves more often and show off his lovely arms
great pics , thank kk

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Lots of straining buttons, how the top one didn't ping off .a nice fitting shirt quite snug
great views of matt standing up next to the bike, well done camera person, great pics


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Evening all

Last thud of the week, Debbie and chris weren't the best of guest, they were a little hard work in the chatting dept.
Chris was happy playing with the guinea pig, naughty matt saying that pets look like their owners and looking at chris,
Matt had his own guinea pig sitting on his lap having a stroke, lucky piggy.

A happy cheeky matt tonight, a nice shirtthat was showing off plenty of wow's but it was hidden by a jacket that we could have done without.

Wow emma you've been a busy bee finding matts gym commentary, thanks alot

Apologies for lack of picspam yesterday but I had a bad day and just needed to have an early night... Hopefully today will be better

Rating for last night's show was The One Show 3.61m (19% share). Not too bad and it still made the day's top 10.

Looks like there may not be any Countryfile filming today, or if there is then Matt is up in Durham. Tweets indicate there's a photoshoot going to be happening there with Matt and the photographer who does a lot of the promotion pictures for Countryfile website and magazine. Maybe we are going to get a bigger feature on Matt in the magazine again?