Former Great British Bake Off hosts Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins may have left the show when it went over to Channel 4, but it turns out that it wasn't the first time they quit.
In fact, the pair almost never fronted the show in the first place, admitting in a new interview that they resigned on day one as they didn't see it as a "kind" show at first.
"We wanted to make it kind," Mel told the Radio Times. "That was absolutely our number one priority and on day one we had quite a frank chat with the producers."
Sue added: "We resigned, basically. Because it was not a kind show. They were pointing cameras in the bakers' faces and making them cry and saying, 'Tell us about your dead gran.'"
Admitting they had to have "very stiff words about how we wanted to proceed", she continued: "We're quite cheesy and homespun and we just want to have a laugh.
"Who wants to see people crying? I don't. Especially if you work in television and you know the mechanisms that have been used to make them cry."
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The pair also opened-up about their decision to not follow the show over when it left the BBC, Sue revealing they found out about the decision to move via the news.
"It was painful, and we've kept our counsel as to the whys and wherefores, and I think there is dignity in that," she recalled. "It's a show about cakes and the moment you get tied up in intense feelings you tell yourself to stop being silly.
"We wish it the best and in return we just wanted them to understand that it would have been hard for us to carry on in those circumstances.
"There's no antagonism there. I just think, 'If you're going to let us find out that way [from TV], then we're not really a team, are we?'"
Mel added: "It was hard, but it was the right time. I think it's good to leave the party before the sandwiches start to turn up at the corners. I have no problem at all with the fact that the show still goes on."
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