Sign up to FREE email alerts from Mirror - celebs Subscribe Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Invalid EmailSue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc nearly quit the Great British Bake Off on their very first day, because they felt the show was too nasty, they have revealed. The duo were appalled when contestants were filmed bursting into tears on the BBC2 show in 2010, Sue said. Sue divulged: “We resigned, basically, because it was not a kind show. They were pointing cameras in the bakers’ faces and saying, ‘Tell us about your dead gran.’ We had stiff words. Who wants to see people crying?”Mel, 51, who hosted the show with Sue for six years, said they had a frank chat with the producers, adding: “We wanted to make it kind.

Source: Daily Mirror March 17, 2020 00:00 UTC