To feel let down by Sandi Toksvig's Bake Off Comments?

Someone asked her why she left and she was honest in response.
Actors and presenters often do things they don't have any particular interest in.
I like Sandi I also watch Bake off and like cakes I think it's ok to do both

I'm pleased to see a bit of supporting the contestants again from the presenters.

I didn't want to like Alison Hammond but actually I think she's really good. Not quite as over the top as she can be and a bit more interaction with and interest in the bakers.

Noel and Matt just felt like wasps you'd want to swat away when busy.

Sandy was a bit nothing on it. I think perhaps if she'd said 'it didn't suit me' it would be fair enough but it does feel deliberately critical.

I read her comment and thought it was a bit entitled tbh!

The tabloids are, as usual, making a lot of fuss about nothing here. The headlines are designed to suggest a massive feud between Sandi Toksvig and Noel Fielding - but actually, all she said is that she doesn’t really see him. How many of us regularly see people we last worked with five years ago? It really isn’t that odd.

How often do you hear actors talk about leaving TV shows because they didn’t like the way the writing was progressing, or what was being done to their character? That seems to be fine - but because we’re sold this vision of Bake Off as a lovely show where everyone’s a big family, it’s somehow heinous to say “Actually, it’s bloody boring to stand around waiting for a cake to rise”.

I don't think she did 'phone it in' for a second, I think she did the job to the best of her ability, and to my mind did a very good job that required very little of her skill or intelligence - then got bored of it and moved on to other things.

We don't all love every single thing we do, I count myself extremely lucky that I actually do adore 90% of what I do for a living. I do not think that is the case for a significant proportion of the population though!

I suspect rather many of us would stop watching if we had to watch the full 5 hours of a show stopper bake.

I’m pretty sure she cried when some bakers were knocked out so unless she’s a surprisingly good actress I don’t think she was completely disengaged with the whole show. Probably just said it knowing it would get her in the news with the new series being on.

Oh my god, go outside and touch something green. 🙄

At least read the full statement before getting offended. She talked about how she had to stand there for hours doing nothing while Prue and Paul tasted the cakes. Anyone would be bored as fuck in that situation.

What put me off 'Bake Off' wasn't the baking bits, it was the absolutely ludicrous histrionics that accompanied the contestants' every move. The whole 'this means so much to me' gush was really off-putting. Bake Off is by no means the only show guilty of this. If it was just about who can bake the best products, rather than who can give the most heart-rending performance, it might be worth watching. I don't blame Sandi for getting bored with it.

Meh.

I've taken jobs that I thought I would enjoy but didn't. Can't get too worried up about someone else having a similar experience.

I agree with you OP, I thought her comments were pretty insulting to the contestants on the show that she had been pretending to be interested in while collecting her pay check and make her unprofessional.

Really? The between the stops one, or has she written another?

I loved her before I read her autobiography, and I loved reading it. I find it hard to square that all with her statements about TWAW, apart from I can see that her lived experiences have meant that in her experience TW haven't been a problem to her. I wish she'd have thought a bit more critically before declaring that TWAW.

She is an awful woman and not very intelligent. Take no notice.

For the record, it's quite possible to be a very intelligent and well educated person and still be interested in cake - or at least, in other people, which is what that role is really about

you do understand she was just one of four presenters right?

Goodness no need to take it personally op. 😳

She’s not saying that it’s TV for people lacking brain cells, she said working on the TV programme made her feel like that which is a legitimate complaint.

Do you think that anyone working on the programme is doing it for the love of it? Of course they are in it for the paycheck and further revenue streams that BO brings like cookbooks

She was hired to host Bake Off, which she did a cracking job of, not love it forever. Lots of people work for the pay check and good for Sandi for taking it. She’s not slated the show, anyone involved in it, or its audience. Just said it’s not for her and she’s not cake person.

She’s not the first and won’t be last to do a role she didn’t love. Half of the cast of Twilight were clearly struggling through the last few. And Christopher Plummer hated the Sound of Music for years, which didn’t disappoint me or dampen my love for Captain von Trapp.

😱I love Gogglebox! How rude. I might start a thread about how awful you are 😁

Yes, exactly.

But it's a bit different working intensively for a few months on the programme to watching it for an hour each week whilst you wind down at the end of the day. I don't think she is insulting anyone who watches the show.

I haven't liked all the jobs I've had. They paid the bills. I would probably have done what she did, except talk about it in the press.

I've had plenty of jobs that felt like that. They paid the bills, but I'm bloody glad I left them.

I'm no great fan (of Sandi or of Bake Off), but wasn't she talking about how tedious it was to make it, rather than what an awful show it is to watch? Those are very different things. I can well imagine that standing around for hours waiting for cakes to bake would be really really boring work, no matter how well paid.