We've all enjoyed having a good old rant about the Great British Bake Off on t'internet over the past few weeks but contestant Ruby Tandoh wasn't the slightest bit impressed with what she read online and has taken to the pages of the Guardian to hit back at those who took pot shots at herself and her fellow finalists.

The 21-year-old Philosophy student and former model made headlines throughout the series, as viewers accused both herself and judge Paul Hollywood of engaging iN a bit too much flirty banter. Ruby's having none of it though, and certainly didn't hold back when writing a piece for the newspaper.

"I am surprised at just how much nastiness was generated from the show," she wrote. "Despite the saccharin sweetness of the Bake Off, an extraordinary amount of bitterness and bile has spewed forth every week from angry commentators, both on social media and in the press."

And she certainly didn't stop there, going on to call out those who levelled personal attacks at herself and the rest of the Bake Off gang: "The criticism ranged from the gently cynical to the downright obnoxious, but as the series went on I noticed an increasing degree of personal vitriol and misogyny. We (female) finalists are supposedly too meek, too confident, too thin, too domestic, too smiley, too taciturn."

Of course, she quite simply had to address those comments about her supposed flirting too, less than a week after judge Paul told The Radio Times that he was most definitely NOT interested in Miss Tandoh: Sure he was only after her buns.

"I am tired of defending myself against the boring, inevitable accusations of flirting with Paul Hollywood, of emotionally manipulating the judges and of somehow surfing into the final on a tidal wave of tears" she wrote, referring in part to comments made by chef Raymond Blanc on Twitter.

"I'd rather eat my own foot than attempt to seduce my way to victory, and even if I had any intention of playing that card, it's insulting to both the judges to suggest that they'd ever let their professional integrity be undermined in that way."

"If a show as gentle as Bake Off can stir up such a sludge of lazy misogyny in the murky waters of the internet, I hate to imagine the full scale of the problem. But it's not something I'm willing to tolerate. Sod the haters. I'm going to have my cupcake and eat it, too" Ruby concluded.

Now. Put that in your gob and swallow it lads.