Great British Bake Off judge Prue Leith has explained why she doesn’t watch the show. It comes shortly after the star admitted that she had almost tried to quit after the recording schedule meant she was never seeing her family.

Sandi Toksvig, the former presenter of 'The Great British Bake Off,' says hosting the show was the longest years of her life.

Toksvig, 66, quit the show back in 2019, saying she planned to ‘spend more time’ with her other work projects. “Spending time with Prue [Leith], Paul [Hollywood] and Noel has been one of the great pleasures of my life,” she said in a statement.

Life in the “Great British Bake Off” tent just isn’t for everyone. This is especially true for the amateur baking competition show’s former co-host Sandi Toksvig, who served as co-host alongside longtime “Bake Off” fixture Noel Fielding between 2017 and 2020.

The flour may have settled on Sandi Toksvig‘s Great British Bake Off tenure, but the former co-host is dishing on her departure. In a recent interview with The Times, Toksvig described her run on the hit baking reality show as “three of the longest years of [her] life,