Bake Off legend Sandi Toksvig bluntly reveals the former co-star she no longer speaks to and why she left the show
BAKE Off legend Sandi Toksvig bluntly revealed the former co-star she no longer speaks to and explained why she ultimately left the show.
The 66-year-old hosted the show for three years alongside Noel Fielding, 51.
Sandi left the show back in 2020 and was replaced by Matt Lucas and later Alison Hammond.
The star has now revealed her real reasons behind leaving the show.
In an interview with The Times where she was asked if she was still friends with her former co-host Noel, Sandi bluntly said: “No.”
She then opened up about why she left the show saying: “It’s not for me. I walked away from the biggest paycheque of my life, but that’s fine.
“I’d never watched it. I still haven’t watched it. I didn’t understand it.
“Cakes are readily available in the shops. I didn’t enjoy the process. There was this showbiz thing you’d made it with Bake Off, it was a big show, getting a lot of attention.
“But my wife Deb said, ‘It’s not making you happy’.”
Sandi still speaks to Prue Leith but is barely is barely in contact with Paul Hollywood due to his busy schedule.
Earlier this year, Prue reacted to a comment Sandi made about the show where she joked that her brain was turning to mush from “watching meringues dry.”
Prue, 83 has dismissed Sandi’s comment, saying that they actually had a great time in the green room and she wasn’t ‘really bored’.
Prue shared that Sandi kept herself busy with knitting, writing scripts, and other hobbies during her breaks from filming.
“I don’t think Sandi was so bored because she and I shared a wonderful green room in this posh house, which was where we filmed Bake Off and which was in the library.
“And so we had this wonderful selection of books and she would knit little figures and dress them beautifully. Did you know she’s a knitter? She sells [them] for charity. So she made lots of those. She wrote a few scripts. She did a lot of other things,” Prue told Times Radio.
Prue added that Sandi’s comment about ‘watching meringue dry’ seemed ‘a little heavy’ but assured that it was only meant as a joke.