Our prayers to the biscuit overlords have been answered. Matt Lucas has left The Nice British Baking Present, after a tense season of controversial jokes, annoying interruptions, and horrible Hawaiian shirts. We’re all leaping for pleasure. That random Change.org petition labored, everybody!
There is no such thing as a scarcity of atrocities to say in the case of Lucas’ short-lived profession with GBBS: consistently feasting from the contestant’s baking stations was one factor, bludgeoning them with jokes was one other. However the worst of all was his look on “Mexican Week” this previous season. Lucas made an unfathomable variety of jokes in poor style, together with questioning whether or not or not Mexico was an actual nation and carrying a sizzling pink poncho/sombrero combo.
“There will probably be no Mexican jokes,” co-host Noel Fielding mentioned on the high of the episode.
“What, not even Juan?” Lucas quipped again. Each Fielding and Lucas deserve the extreme backlash they acquired after this heinous “joke.” Now, a minimum of, we relaxation comfortably realizing that one of many pair is not engaged on the present, after wreaking such havoc.
Lucas claims to have left the collection for causes aside from full public hatred of his internet hosting abilities In an announcement on Tuesday, he claimed that his position presenting Fantasy Soccer League, together with an array of different unnamed initiatives, made him too busy for the gig.
“Farewell Bake Off! It’s been a scrumptious expertise and I can’t think about a extra enjoyable manner of spending my summers,” Lucas wrote in an announcement on Instagram. “But it surely’s turn into clear to me that I can’t current each Fantasy Soccer League and Bake Off alongside all my different initiatives.”
The official British Bake Off (the present’s English title) Twitter account responded to Matt’s exit statement: “We’ve beloved having Matt Lucas brighten up our Tent for the final three years, particularly when laughter and smiles have been a lot in want. We admire every thing he’s accomplished for Bake Off, from working in covid bubbles to supporting the bakers.”
Replied a blunt Nice British Baking Present fan: “Finest information of the week that.”
Whereas we do want Lucas all the most effective in his future endeavors, The Nice British Baking Present was not his sturdy go well with. It must be famous that, together with the controversial feedback throughout Mexican Week, the actor additionally as soon as confronted backlash for showing in blackface with David Walliams on their sketch present Little Britain. Yikes. That’s not the lovable sort of individual we’d wish to see within the GBBS tent.
So, who would be somebody that might be a delight within the GBBS tent? The present high remark replying to Lucas’ departure menace campaigns for The Memento actor Richard Ayoade to take the reigns with Fielding. One other British star that could possibly be a tremendous match: Catherine Tate of Physician Who, The Workplace, and The Catherine Tate Present fame. (Say hiya to your new YouTube binge.)
Different followers of the collection have jumped in with former GBBS contestants who could possibly be up for the gig—possibly Selasi from Collection 7, or Janusz from the newest season of the collection. I’d advocate Freya and Lizzie from final 12 months’s season, who’ve turn into avid TikTok pals reporting on their baking collectively.
There are, clearly, many choices for GBBS within the wake of Matt Lucas’ departure. Hopefully, they select accurately and the present can rebound from its previous few seasons of soggy-bottom high quality.
