The remaining Great British Bake Off stars have earned brownie points with fans by vowing to stay until at least 2023.
Host Noel Fielding and judges Prue Leith and Paul Hollywood have all signed new deals for the show, Channel 4 confirmed. Producers will sift through a list of names to replace out-going Sandi Toksvig , 61, who will leave in the spring.
Runners and risers include comedians Jo Brand, 62, and Jennifer Saunders, 61, plus 2015 winners Nadiya Hussain, 35, and previous contestant Liam Charles, 22.
Chef and caterer Prue, 79, who has presented the series for three years, reckoned she wanted to equal Mary Berry’s seven, adding: “By which time I’ll be 82, which is when she left.”
Long-timer Paul, 53, confessed he wanted be a “grumpy old git” on GBBO.
He said: “I think I’ll be getting wheeled on in a wheelchair and they’re going to have to blitz all the bakes and feed me with a spoon.”
Prue said that her job on Bake Off was “lovely”: “I turn up, taste something and go. What could be nicer? And I get paid rather well for it. Excellent.”
The news of these comebacks will be music to the ears of fans who shall miss Sandi on the hit show.
Announcing her departure, she wrote on Twitter : "When stepping down from a job it is quite common for people to say they are doing so in order to spend more time with their family.
"Unusually I am departing from the Great British Bake Off so I can spend more time with my other work. As my waistline will testify, Bake Off is an all-consuming show."
The Great British Bake Off will return to Channel 4 in 2020.
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