Great British Bake Off cuts crucial part of the show from new series

Great British Bake Off viewers love tittering over ‘soggy bottoms’ and getting a ‘good forking’.

But when the show returns to Channel 4 on Tuesday, there won’t be a sexual innuendo or tongue-in-cheek remark in sight.

Instead, show bosses are hoping a series of skits involving Noel Fielding, 45, and Sandi Toksvig, 60, will get the laughs.

Judge Paul Hollywood, 52, said: "I think innuendo is funny. I suppose it’s been part of Bake Off for a few years, but it’s not the be-all and end-all in Bake Off.

"Maybe we should do an outtakes thing after 11pm."


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Judge Prue Leith, 78, added: "We don’t cook them up, they just happen."

In the first episode, Paul is given the perfect opportunity to make a cheeky remark when he’s given an iced biscuit that looks very phallic.

But he doesn’t take the bait, instead saying: "I think it looks like a prawn."

Meanwhile, it’s been revealed the show will begin with a reference to judge Prue Leith’s mistake of revealing last year’s winner before the final was aired.

Leith, 77, was in Bhutan when she tweeted her congratulations to Sophie Faldo , hours before the final.

The TV baking competition returns to Channel 4 next week for its second series on the broadcaster since its switch from the BBC.

In the opening scene of the first episode, hosts Noel Fielding and Sandi Toksvig appear dressed as characters from the 1980s film trilogy Back To The Future.

The skit see Fielding wearing a white coast and mad professor wig as inventor Doc Brown, while Toksvig dons a body warmer to take off the films’ hero Marty McFly.

As the pair jump into a silver car to travel through time, they jokingly reveal they are trying to stop Leith from publicly revealing the identity of this year’s winner.


Viewers will then see Leith and fellow judge Hollywood sitting on a sofa with Leith apparently preparing to send out a social media post on her phone.

Ahead of the new series, Leith revealed: "They didn’t propose it they just did it! My reaction would have been, I wouldn’t dare mention this for a whole year and then you go and use it.

"Now everybody will start brining it up again. Sure enough, I’m getting people saying to me ‘tell me about the results’.

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