Catherine Tyldesley asked fans for baker recommendations that were ‘not too expensive’ 10 years before cake gate row over her 40th birthday bash
- The Coronation Street actress, 39, recently become embroiled in a cake scandal
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Coronation Street actress Catherine Tyldesley, asked fans and friends for recommendations for a ‘non-expensive’ baker 10 years ago, a resurfaced tweet has revealed.
The Coronation Street actress, 39, recently become embroiled in a scandal after a small bakery was approached by party planners organising a 40th birthday bash on her behalf.
They asked for more than 100 cakes to be made in exchange for social media exposure, leaving the baker Rebecca Severs stunned by the offer, before she took to social media to reveal the request.
In response, Catherine took to her Instagram story to claim she had no idea the party organisers had made the request
However in 2013, the actress tweeted: ‘Can anyone recommend a good cake maker in Manchester?? Not too expensive!’
Many rushed to the comments to poke fun at the resurfaced tweet alluding to the fact it didn’t age well in light of recent scandal.
Resurfaced tweet from Catherine Tyldesley 10 years ago asked for recommendations for a ‘non-expensive’ cake maker in Manchester
One person wrote: ‘There’s a lass in Leeds, best get on her good side now, she’ll be fuming with you in 10 years time.’
Another simply said: ‘Cake beg.’ While someone else wrote: ‘Oh dear.’
A fourth quipped: ‘Clown pay for your cake.’
Rebecca Severs, from Keighley, shared a Facebook post this week with a screenshot of an email exchange between her bakery and the PR company which represented an unidentified ‘well-known’ celebrity asking for a cake for a 40th birthday party in September. They also requested 100 cupcakes and an extra smaller birthday cake for her husband.
The founder of Three Little Birds Bakery wrote: ‘This poor celebrity apparently can’t afford to pay people for their products and services. Spare a thought! What happened to women supporting women.’
The Mail revealed earlier this week that the party planners were in fact organising a 40th birthday bash for Catherine – and now the actress has hit back at the baker on her Instagram page.
Sharing a video this morning, she gave a thumbs up to the camera as she said: ‘Utterly bizarre. I don’t really know what to say. I mean I hope the cake lady got the exposure she was craving.’
The Coronation Street actress, 39, recently become embroiled in a scandal after a small bakery was approached by party planners organising a 40th birthday bash on her behalf
In 2013, the actress tweeted: ‘Can anyone recommend a good cake maker in Manchester?? Not too expensive!’
Starting the video, the actress said: ‘Cake gate! WHAT!’
‘So I had no idea those emails were being sent. I’m not working with the lovely Ok magazine on anything that I’m aware of and NVRLND are an amazing company.
‘They’ve supplied me with performers in the past;. They’re insane and they’ve been completely misrepresented in this matter.’
She went on to brand the scandal ‘utterly bizarre’ and suggested Rebecca was ‘seeking exposure’ with her Facebook post sharing the email.
The email from the celebrity management team, which was posted on Facebook by Rebecca this week, read: ‘We are organising a 40th Birthday Party for a well-known celebrity on the 1st of September 2023 in Manchester.
‘In return for being a supplier for the event, payment would be made in the form of promotion on their socials with over 700K followers, as well as promoted on OK Magazine.
Many rushed to the comments to poke fun at the resurfaced tweet alluding to the fact it didn’t age well in light of recent scandal
‘They will be crediting all the suppliers on these platforms.’
It continued: ‘The party has a guest list full of celebrities and industry people from tv/film and music, so loads of work would come from it.’
The email went on to outline that the birthday theme has been designed with ‘pinks, sparkles and a touch of flamingos’.
They then requested one birthday cake with the theme ‘camp as tits’, as well as 100 cupcakes.
Finally, they asked for another, smaller, birthday cake because ‘it’s actually her husband’s birthday that day and we wanted to surprise him.’
Photographer Tom Pitfield, turns 37 on the day of the Manchester bash.
In return, the small bakery would be rewarded ‘in the form of promotion on their [the celeb’s] socials with over 700k followers, as well as promoted in OK Magazine,’ while the party promised ‘a guest lists full of celebrities and industry people from TV / film and music, so loads of work would come from it’.
Ms Severs, 37, did not know it was the former Strictly star and mum-of-two she would be providing for but it mattered not.
And in posting her pithy response to social media, she has won herself a new army of fans.
Replying to Leeds-based party planners NVRLND, Ms Severs confirmed she had availability but jokingly said: ‘I’m so sorry to hear that your client has fallen on such hard times they can’t afford to pay small businesses their products.
Rebecca Severs, from Keighley, shared a Facebook post this week with a screenshot of an email exchange between her bakery and the PR company which represented an unidentified ‘well-known’ celebrity asking for a cake for a 40th birthday party in September
Best known for playing Eva Price on Weatherfield’s famous cobbles for seven years until 2018, Ms Tyldesley, has starred in BBC sitcom Scarborough and appeared on Strictly Come Dancing in 2019
‘Unfortunately as my mortgage provider doesn’t take payment “in the form of promotion on their socials”, and my staff can’t feed their kids with exposure on Instagram, I’ll have to decline your very generous offer.’
The bakery was met with a wave of support for the post, with one person commenting: ‘Best response! Good for sticking to your guns!’
Meanwhile another added: ‘Good for you!’
A third wrote: ‘Love it!’
A fourth commented: ‘Got yourself a new follower here, purely because this response is exactly the level of business like sarcasm I aspire to. Fab response.’
Another person wrote: ‘We have this a lot. Influencers are very frustrating and most expect everything for free.
‘It happens more often than people know. Like you say, exposure doesn’t pay the mortgage.’
Days later, the bakery put another post up on social media saying they have now been ‘threatened’ with legal action and added: ‘I’ve now been threatened with legal action by….as a response to this post which they say is encouraging defamation of their business.’
The email claimed to be from the management company of a ‘well-known celebrity’ who was having a 40th birthday party
Rebecca emailed the company back, explaining that she would be declining the ‘very generous offer’
The bakery’s Facebook page last night said: ‘Hi to all our new followers. We deal in delicious cakes and a generous side of sarcasm when necessary.
‘We are getting a massive amount of phone calls, emails and messages as a result of the media coverage of the news story that is us refusing to work for heart emojis.
‘We are blown away by all your support and so happy to see that so many other people agree that small business shouldn’t be taken advantage of!’
And speaking to local station Rombalds Radio, Rebecca said: ‘It’s really important to highlight the issue of small businesses, especially in female-dominant industries, not earning a fair wage for their time and skill, especially in the cost-of-living crisis we are experiencing.
‘We are proud of our team who are all highly skilled at cake baking and decorating, and proud to have built a successful business based on correct pricing which means our staff are paid a decent wage and have job stability.
‘We wish the same for NVRLND and offer them and their clients our best regards for the future.’
Last night a different cake baker, who wanted to remain anonymous, told the Mail that they had also been passed on the opportunity to make cakes for the same party planners.
The small business owner confirmed that the request was for Ms Tyldesley’s 40th birthday party.
Best known for playing Eva Price on Weatherfield’s famous cobbles for seven years until 2018, Ms Tyldesley, has starred in BBC sitcom Scarborough and appeared on Strictly Come Dancing in 2019.
The star is very active on social media which she regularly uses to promote brands, businesses and products.
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