Sandi Toksvig presented The Great British Bake Off for three yearsPresenter stepped down in 2020 after co-hosting the Channel 4 show for three yearsFans of The Great British Bake Off will be familiar with contestants’ fears of soggy bottoms, but its former host Sandi Toksvig has admitted that she had more cerebral concerns. The presenter, now 65, said she had stepped down from the Channel 4 show in 2020 because she had felt that her brain was “atrophying”. SponsoredToksvig said that she had had enough after spending three years with the show after its move from the BBC in 2017. Toksvig with Selasi Gbormittah, a contestant in the seventh series who returned for a Christmas special CHANNEL 4/ALAMY“I left Bake Off because I stopped having fun. I was literally standing there watching meringues dry and thinking, ‘Oh my God, my brain is atrophying’,” she told Radio Times.

Source: The Times January 16, 2024 15:34 UTC