It is still not known whether Bake Off judges Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry will follow suit, after they are reportedly being offered a huge £1 million each to join Channel 4.
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Simon’s take on Bake Off’s channel move comes after Jamie Oliver recently ruled out speculation he could become a new judge on the show.
Last week, millions of Bake Off fans in the United Kingdom had their hearts broken when it was abruptly announced that the Great British Bake Off would be moving to Channel 4.
According to BBC News, the corporation is believed to have offered Love Productions £15 million per year to keep the show. “I think that sometimes in life, things are best born in certain places and that doesn’t necessarily mean that the long term running of it is necessarily with the same people”. Because years of fantastic service, and years of being a good home to Bake Off doesn’t mean anything to greedy production companies, the format was sold to Channel 4 instead.
The Great British Bake-Off could go the way of Top Gear after losing presenters Mel and Sue in its £75million move to Channel 4, says a De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) media expert.
“The BBC nurtured the show from its infancy and helped give it its distinctive warmth and charm, growing it from an audience of two million to almost 15 at its peak”.
Question Time presenter David Dimbleby, on the other hand, slammed his employers for offering such a big offer for the show even though they lost out, saying it did not provide ‘value for money’. We just have one demand… we want Mel & Sue back. If they don’t move, we want to make that part of our first demand as well…
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Cowell also joked that he has an idea for a new show that could rival the Great British Bake Off.
