Bake-Off fans ‘are crabby over adverts’

MARY BERRY has said adverts may be putting people off the rebooted version of the Great British Bake Off.

The TV cook heaped praise on the show’s Prue Leith – who replaced Mrs Berry on the popular programme after she quit when producer Love Productions announced it was leaving the BBC for Channel 4.

Mrs Berry, 82, told Good Housekeeping magazine: “If I could have chosen someone to take my place, and if they’d given me all the cookery writers set in a row, I would have said that Prue (Leith) would be the one.”

She said the new presenters, Noel Fielding and Sandi Toksvig, were doing a “good job” but added: “It’s just people get a bit crabby about the ads.” “I did seven years and loved every minute of it. But you have to go some time, don’t you? “It is all about the brilliant format. All the family can watch and there’s no bad language. It has continued in exactly the same format and place,” Mrs Berry said. Earlier this year, 2015 winner Nadiya Hussain confessed to recording the show to skip all the adverts. Love Productions sold Bake Off to Channel 4 after seven series on the BBC with presenters Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins as well as Mrs Berry opting to leave the series following its move. Mrs Berry also spoke about her annoyance over fad diets such as clean eating, explaining: “It’s really about eating a balanced diet. You are what you eat.”