Bake Off legend Sandi Toksvig bluntly reveals the former co-star she no longer speaks to and why she left the show

BAKE Offa legend Sandi Toksvig has opened up about a former co-star she no longer speaks to and explained why she eventually left the show.

The 66-year-old co-hosted the show with Noel Fielding (51) for three years.

Sandi Toksvig reveals why she really left Bake Off behind Credit: Mark Bourdillon (Channel 4 images may not be altered or manipulated in any way) CHANN

Sandi admitted she had never watched the show before joining. Credit: Mark Bourdillon/ Channel 4 Images may not be altered or manipulated in any way. This picture

Sandi left the show back in 2020, and was replaced by Matt Lucas and later Alison Hammond.

The star has now revealed her real reasons for leaving the show.

In an interview with The Times where she was asked if she was still friends with her former co-host Noel, Sandi bluntly said: “No.”

She then opened up about why she left the show, saying: “It’s not for me. I walked away from the biggest payday of my life, but that’s okay.

“I never watched it. I still haven’t watched it. I didn’t understand it.

“Cakes are readily available in the shops. I didn’t enjoy the process. It was a showbiz thing you did with Bake Off, it was a big show, it got a lot of attention.

“But my wife Deb said, ‘That doesn’t make you happy.'”

Sandi is still on the phone with Prue Leith, but barely in touch with Paul Hollywood due to his busy schedule.

Earlier this year, Prue responded to a comment Sandi made about the show in which she joked her brain was turning to mush from “watching the meringue dry”.

Prue, 83, dismissed Sandi’s comment, saying they actually had a great time in the green room and she wasn’t ‘really bored’.

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Prue shared that Sandi kept busy with knitting, screenwriting and other hobbies during her break from filming.

“I don’t think Sanda was so bored because she and I shared a beautiful green room in this posh house, where we filmed Bake Off, which was in the library.

“And so we had a wonderful selection of books and she would make the little figures dance and dress them up beautifully. Did you know she knits? She sells [them] for charity. So she made a lot of them. She has written several screenplays. She was doing a lot of other things,” Prue told Times Radio.

Prue added that Sandi’s comment about ‘watching the meringue dry’ seemed ‘a bit difficult’ but assured her it was only a joke.