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David Schwimmer tears up watching ‘Great British Bake Off’


“The Great British Bake Off” turns David Schwimmer into a crybaby.

“I tear up,” the actor tells Page Six in an exclusive interview, adding that his favorite contestant from the most recent season was Nelly Ghaffar.

“There’s a woman on it that has stolen my heart,” he says. “She’s from Slovakia.”

David Schwimmer is a big fan of “The Great British Bake Off.” _schwim_/Instagram
The actor wowed judges Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith with his tofu pie on a 2023 celebrity edition. Mark Bourdillon/Netflix

Schwimmer, 58, appeared on a celebrity edition of the popular series in 2023 to raise funds for cancer — and he received the highly coveted Paul Hollywood handshake for a vegetable and curry pot pie.

“Honestly, I’ve never had tofu that I’ve enjoyed before,” Hollywood uttered before offering his hand to the “Friends” star. “That is a fantastic pie.”

Now that he has perfected pastries, Schwimmer is back on the small screen in the limited anthology series “Goosebumps: The Vanishing.”

Schwimmer even received a coveted Paul Hollywood handshake. The Great British Bake Off
The “Friends” star is back on the small screen in “Goosebumps: The Vanishing.” Disney

The Emmy nominee plays Anthony Brewer, a former botany professor and divorced father of twins who are sent to spend a summer in their dad’s neighborhood, appropriately named Gravesend, Brooklyn.

Schwimmer admits he never read R.L. Stine’s “Goosebumps” novels to his daughter, Cleo, 13, while she was growing up, but he had “of course” heard about the franchise and knew it was “really beloved.”

“I am a huge fan of the horror-action-comedy genre, and I’ve just never been able to play in that genre, so I was really, really excited,” the “Madagascar” voice actor, who signed on after meeting the writers, tells us.

Schwimmer plays a former botany professor in the spooky series. Andrew Schwartz / SplashNews.com
He shares a love of plants and flowers with his character. Disney

A bonus was that the spooky show, which is now streaming on Disney+ and Hulu, was shot in New York, where Schwimmer lives.

“I was born in Queens, and we shot all over Queens and Brooklyn. … I just thought it was too delicious an opportunity [to pass up],” he says of the gig.

Plus, the “Band of Brothers” star has one thing in common with his character: a love of plants.

“I literally have the app on my phone … where you put your camera on any plant in the world and it immediately tells you everything about it,” he enthuses. “Like, I’m that guy!”


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