Sue Perkins recalls vile homophobic attack that left ex-Bake Off host in tears
Great British Bake Off host, 51, was left in tears when a man verbally abused her on Hampstead Heath in London. Speaking on the Homo Sapiens podcast, Sue revealed: ‘I did have my first homophobic insult in 20 years recently, and I thought, “Oh, I wonder if that’s coming back?” I was on the heath and this guy, I think he said, “You f**king dyke.”‘You know when something bad happens and on the bus on the way home you think of all the brilliant things you should have said in that moment I had that very profoundly.’She added that she worried the man would be violent towards her when she confronted him about what he had yelled at her. ‘At the time, I sort of went right up to him and went, “What did you say?” And he sort of postured a bit almost.
