Noel Fielding is joining The Great British Bake Off as a presenter. The show had up to 15m viewers at the BBC

If it was not enough of a shock that The Great British Bake Off has moved from the BBC to Channel 4, there is worse to come: one of the new presenters, Noel Fielding, has admitted he will not eat the cakes.

The comedian — who joins the programme with Sandi Toksvig and Prue Leith alongside baker Paul Hollywood — said: “I get more work when I’m thinner, so I can’t put on weight. No one likes a tubby goth is what I’m saying.”

His view is in marked contrast to that of Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc, the former presenters who made no secret of the fact that they intended to eat as much cake as possible.

As Perkins once said: “OK bakers, that’s