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Matt Lucas has near the structure for good, arsenic helium announced his exit from The Great British Baking Show Dec. 6. Read the presenter's afloat connection here.
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Matt Lucas volition not instrumentality to the tent.
The British comedian, who has presented The Great British Baking Show alongside Noel Fielding since 2020, taking implicit from Sandi Toksvig, announced his departure from the cooking contention bid Dec. 6. Though Matt said helium had a "delicious experience" filming The Great British Baking Show, helium explained that different accidental forced him to locomotion distant from the show.
"It's go wide to maine that I can't contiguous some Fantasy Football League and Bake Off alongside each my different projects," helium wrote connected Twitter. "So aft 3 bid and 51 episodes, I americium cheerfully passing the baguette connected to idiosyncratic else."
After thanking the formed and crew, including his co-presenter Noel and judges Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith, Matt shared helium was excited to tune into the adjacent section "without already knowing who won."
As for who volition regenerate Matt connected The Great British Baking Show? That has yet to beryllium announced.
Matt's exit follows a arguable season for the baking competition. Specifically, galore viewers were outraged following the show's "Mexican Week" episode, successful which Matt and Noel wore sarapes and sombreros and made heavily-criticized jokes.
One spectator tweeted Oct. 8, "16 seconds into the Mexican Week ep of #GBBO and I'm already offended." Another commented alongside a scene of Matt shaking maracas, "I conscionable privation y'all to recognize *how* f--king racist this is."
Following the backlash, Prue told The New Yorker Oct. 23, "There would person been perfectly nary volition to offend. That's not the tone of the show."
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The restaurateur went connected to bespeak the affirmative impact The Great British Baking Show has had during its tenure connected the air. "This is alternatively a cliché happening to say, but I bash deliberation that it is simply a unit for good, astir of the time," she added. "Everything we bash successful beingness is simply a spot stressful—we are ever abbreviated of time, we're abbreviated of money, determination are each sorts of horrible things happening each implicit the world. And Bake Off is this harmless abstraction wherever the worst happening that tin hap is idiosyncratic volition driblet their bake."
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