Catherine Tyldesley took to Instagram this week to hit out at a baker who'd published a series of emails online between themselves and a party planner who's understood to have been working for the actor.
The emails shared by Three Little Birds Bakery contained requests from the party planner asking for "100 cupcakes" for an unnamed celebrity in exchange for social media publicity.
The email to the baker also asked for a birthday cake for said celebrity and their husband too, all for social media plugs in return.
The baker hit back in the emails by stating staff couldn't feed their kids or pay mortgages "with exposure on Instagram".
Tyldesley addressed the fallout of the row by hitting out at the baker and hoping she "got the attention she craved" by publishing the emails on Facebook.
But now, just days after she issued the response, Tyldesley has come under fire thanks to an unearthed tweet which contains a rather similar request.
Catherine Tyldesley addressed 'cake-gate' in an Instagram video
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Dated back to July 1, 2013, Tyldesley asked on the social media site: "Can anyone recommend a good cake maker in Manchester?
"Not too expensive though," she'd signed off the tweet, leading to a number of Twitter users to react in light of 'cake-gate'.
Retweeting the tweet, one fan added alongside: "Oh look, I wonder if Catherine Tyldesley tried to get these cakes for free too?"
"Awkward #cakegate," a second user weighed in while a third remarked: "She’s been trying to get that freebie for 10 years!"
Elsewhere, a fourth user poked fun at the situation as they said: "Always on the look out for cheap cakes..."
Tyldesley denied she knew anything about the aforementioned emails being sent and hit back at the bakery in a clip earlier this week.
She was responding to the baker who'd shared screenshots of the emails on Facebook with the caption: "This poor celebrity apparently can't afford to pay people for their products and services.
"Spare a thought! What happened to women supporting women."
In the clip she published, Tyldesley said: "Cake gate, what! So I have 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.
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"They've supplied me with performers in the past. They're insane and they've been completely misrepresented in this matter. Utterly bizarre.
"Don't really know what to say. I mean I hope the cake lady got the exposure she was craving," she signed off before claiming she'd received unwanted attention at her front door because of the incident.
Events company NVRLND released a statement to defend the emails sent and insisted they had been "misconstrued".
In a statement [via Mirror], its founder said: "NVRLND contacted Three Little Birds Bakery to offer them the opportunity to collaborate with one of our clients to cater for a party.
"As part of the collaboration, our client would cover all of Three Little Birds Bakery’s expenses and costs in exchange for social media content and local and national exposure for their business.
"To confirm, NVRLND are also retained on the same expenses-only basis."
