Great British Bake Off’s Noel Fielding is avoiding cake
Fielding said he’d lost weight to play singer Alice Cooper and described sugar as “a very powerful thing”.
While Great British Bake Off viewers salivate over the sight of cake, host Noel Fielding will be resisting temptation.
Fielding, 44, who is hosting the Channel 4 show alongside Sandi Toksvig, 59, appears to be watching his figure.
“Sugar is a very powerful thing, I get more work when I’m thinner, so I can’t put on weight,” he told The Sunday Times Magazine.
The comedian said he likes cake and has “a very sweet tooth”, but added: “I don’t eat anything, I’m like a plant.”
He stopped eating sugar to lose a stone to play singer Alice Cooper on-screen.
“You can’t just get straight back on to sugar, as it’s quite a powerful thing,” he added.
In contrast, former host Mel Giedroyc, who fronted the then BBC show with Sue Perkins, previously admitted putting on three quarters of a stone every year thanks to her time in the tent.
When asked for her favourite episode of the show, she replied: “The one where they make cake? I don’t watch a lot of television; I’m more of a reader.”
The trailer for the show recently dropped with singing cakes, but the judges and hosts nowhere to be seen.
