Bake Off: David Bowie’s son Duncan Jones compares Aladdin Sane cake to botched painting of Jesus
Critique of the cake was ‘posted with love’
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Your support makes all the difference.Duncan Jones, the son of the late David Bowie, has reacted to a Great British Bake Off contestant’s tribute to his father.
In the first episode of the current series of Bake Off, contestants were tasked with making cakes in the likeness of celebrities.
For the showstopper challenge, Bake Off star Marc Elliot chose Bowie, specifically as pictured on the front cover of his Aladdin Sane album.
Reacting to the cake on Twitter, Jones light-heartedly compared it to the misshapen face of the Ecce Homo painting of Jesus, the restoration of which was infamously botched in 2012.
“Just caught this episode of The Great British Baking Show……….,” the film director and screenwriter posted on Twitter, alongside an image of the Bowie cake.
This was followed by a picture of the unsightly painting. However, Jones added that the comparison was “posted with love”.
Others were less kind when the cake made its debut on Channel 4 two months ago.
One Twitter user described the confection as resembling what would happen “if Donald Trump and Bowie were involved in a terrible matter transmitter accident”.
Another described the cake as looking “like David Bowie… if somebody had dropped a piano on him”.
“Am I the only one who thought the David Bowie cake looked like Gerard Depardieu dressed up as Ziggy Stardust?” asked someone else.
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