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.
“No one likes a tubby gut is what I’m saying.”
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.
In The Sunday Times interview, Fielding said that his co-host, Toksvig, “had never seen Bake Off”.
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.”
Channel 4 paid a reported £75 million for three years of the hit show, which scored 15 million viewers on the BBC.
The Great British Bake OffComing soon, on Channel 4#GBBO pic.twitter.com/NVoGHCcN0A
— Channel 4 (@Channel4) August 3, 2017
The trailer for the show recently dropped with singing cakes, but the judges and hosts nowhere to be seen.
