“We’re thrilled… The chances of us reuniting Mary, Mel and Sue are very high”. “I’ll miss her but she has made the right decision for her. (sic)”.
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Not least because it’s been claimed today that the BBC are cooking up a show which will star Mary, Mel and Sue, and which will, by default therefore, be a rival to Bake Off.
However early in 2016 rumours began to circle that the team behind the show were talking to other networks about the possibility of a move, with ITV, Sky, and Channel 4 all reportedly interested in the show.
According to the Telegraph, the BBC “is considering launching a rival to Bake Off with three of its original presenters” – judge Mary Berry and departed co-hosts Mel and Sue.
Paul is going with the show to Channel 4. I’m 20 years younger and I’d quite like to put my feet up.
And that fact has prompted a number of Bake Off fans to insist that regardless of how faithfully Channel 4 try to recreate the show, it will never be the same.
Past Bake Off victor Nadiya Hussain is the 5-1 favourite to join Paul Hollywood on the judging panel.
‘I’d like to think she will come round my house and bake exclusively for me’.
“Wow busy day! Just catching up with everything”.
Another wrote: “Surely @Channel4 should have only paid the £**million for the ‘whole kit & caboodle” – that should have been the deal #bakeoff #f***up’.
A TV source said: “He was offered a significant role on Top Gear”.
There are continuing denials at the station that those brokering the £75million deal had not realised that none of the talent – Berry, Hollywood, Giedroyc or Perkins – were locked in to the show when they signed the secret agreement.
But he later tweeted to say how much he would miss his fellow judge.
Love Productions’ creative director Richard McKerrow looked to calm the Bake Off fans, assuring them that changes will me minimal.
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The BBC is believed to have offered Love Productions £15 million a year to keep the programme, but that is reported to have fallen £10 million short.
