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'Great British Baking Show' host Sandi Toksvig announces she's leaving after 3 years


Sandi Toksvig is hanging up her apron. 

The presenter for “The Great British Baking Show” (known as “The Great British Bake Off” in the U.K.) announced Thursday she is leaving the reality baking competition after three years to focus on other projects. 

“When stepping down from a job it is quite common for people to say they are doing so in order to spend more time with their family. Unusually I am departing from the Great British Bake off so I can spend more time with my other work,” Toksvig wrote in a statement Thursday on Twitter. “As my waistline will testify, Bake Off is an all consuming show.” 

Production is currently searching for Toksvig’s replacement: “Candidates must have experience of mopping up spills and the occasional tear, making tea and keeping the amateur bakers to time,” a news release from Britain’s Channel 4 quipped. 

Toksvig will still appear in the already-taped special “The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up to Cancer,” which is set to air this year and features stars like “Jaws” actor Richard Dreyfuss, “Queer Eye” fashion expert Tan France and singer James Blake.

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The broadcaster, who will host a new Channel 4 series about adult literacy called “The Write Offs,” sent well-wishes to her co-workers. 

“Spending time with (judges Prue Leith and Paul Hollywood and co-presenter Noel Fielding) has been one of the great pleasures of my life. These are friendships which I know will continue beyond the confines of television.”

She also noted that she is confident “Bake Off” will continue long after her exit. “The reason for that, of course, is that the true stars of the show are the bakers themselves.” 



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