YOUR LOGIC’S GONE WEST, THANDIE . . .

What a half-baked Bake Off

CHANNEL 4 has announced the new line- up for its reinvention of The Great British Bake Off. As we expected, Prue Leith and Paul Hollywood will be the judges.

But Mel and Sue’s replacements are the achingly PC and woefully unfunny Sandi Toksvig and the crossdressing, foulmouthed comic Noel Fielding (below). The whole point of Bake Off was its old-fashioned wholesomeness, including Mel and Sue’s Carry-On-Up-The-Carrot-Cake innuendo. What a missed opportunity. What an utterly predictable C4 disaster this will be. My view is that the show will sink faster than any pastry with a soggy bottom. for the show. She said: ‘I was more comfortable naked because the costume was the most potent objectification of a woman, with the boobs pushed right up, the tiny waist. It’s an invitation for sex.’

Unlike parading yourself in your altogether, of course, Thandie.

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