I wasn’t really up for The Great Sport Relief Bake Off (8pm, BBC2, 10 to 13 January).

The whole Keep Calm and Bake movement is not my piece of cake and, ahem, Holby City was on. But although I’m not going to pretend I made it past part one, it was nowhere near as bad as I’d afeared, thanks to the absence of Sue Perkins and the shenanigans of the clueless celebs - actresses Angela Griffin and Sarah Hadland, botanist James Wong and TV gardener Joe Swift.

Inept isn’t the word. If Hadland wasn’t spraying red cake mix all over herself; Griffin was demonstrating her inability to follow a recipe (despite reading everything out loud to avoid making a mistake); Wong was being ridiculously over-ambitious with his flavour combos (mini meringue nests with green mango and chilli prawn filling, anyone?); and Joe was being resolutely dull with his (convincing no-one that cream topped with raspberries was actually raspberry cream).

It made for highly entertaining viewing, helped by the fact the celebs weren’t taking themselves too seriously (an elaborate Wong recipe eliciting from eventual winner Griffin: “Home made vanilla extract? I’ve put some peanut butter with some chocolate!”)

Which was a good thing too because Mel Giedroyc’s presenting style was as half-baked as her gags (“Ladies and gents, you think you’ve got all the time in the world and then it’s scone” unsurprisingly failing to raise a laugh).

If only THAT squirrel had made an appearance again, I might have been tempted to watch the second part.