The knives are out for Mary!

HOW can The Great British Bake Off complain Mary Berry has stolen its format for her new BBC show, Britain’s Best Cook?

Everyone knows the blessed St Mary can do no wrong. Ever. And surely GBBO itself was a near- copy of MasterChef, which was hardly original.

Amateurs being judged by professionals has been a TV staple since The Generation Game. Yet that hasn’t stopped GBBO challenging other shows such as The Big Painting Challenge and Hair, a BBC3 show that attempted to find the UK’s best hairdresser but soon lost its bounce.

Perhaps the whingers should just try to make their own doomed C4 show a success.