Media captionGBBO’s Nadiya: No offers from Channel 4

Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain said she has had “no offers” from Channel 4 to present the show.

“I love writing, cook and baking. I’m enjoying what I’m doing and I don’t want it to be taken away from me, ” she told the BBC.

When asked if Channel 4 had approached her to host the show when it moves from BBC One, she told Newsround: “No.”

Channel 4 signed a three-year deal earlier this month with Love Productions, which builds the programme.

But judge Mary Berry will not move after she quit The Great British Bake Off last week out of loyalty to the BBC, a few cases days after presenters Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins also decided not to construct the move to Channel 4.

Image copyright Ian West Image caption The BBC’s Bake Off team: Mel Giedroyc, Sue Perkins, Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood

Paul Hollywood is the only Bake Off star to have agreed to stick with the indicate and switch to Channel 4, so there is speculation as to who will present and magistrate the show.

Channel 4 will begin airing the programme in 2017, starting with a celebrity special in aid of Stand Up To Cancer.

Hussain was asked by BBC Breakfast about her views on Bake Off changing channel, but responded by saying: “It’s old news.

“Change occurs, change comes, wherever it[ the show] runs I merely want it to do well, whatever happens, wherever it goes.”

Image copyright Tristan Fewings Image caption Hussain won last year’s series

But when asked about the importance of Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins to the prove, she said: “Mel and Sue are so important to the demonstrate. Every day I was falling apart they’d come and say, ‘It’s only cake, come on you can do this.'”

She added it is “the least competitive competition in the world” and that “you like one another, there’s camaraderie in the rivalry, you don’t see that anywhere else.”

She told: “You want to win and do really well and you want everyone to do well as well.”

BBC and Channel 4 debate

The BBC and Channel 4 clashed over Bake Off on Tuesday at the Royal Television Society London Conference.

James Purnell, the BBC’s director of strategy and education was in a debate with Channel 4’s chief creative officer Jay Hunt.

Hunt said: “I understand that you feel aggrieved about Bake Off although it is worth remembering the BBC lost Bake Off. Channel 4 didn’t take Bake Off.”

Purnell told her: “You have a remit which you describe yourself as ‘born risky’. I think there’s real questions about whether buying Bake Off qualifies for that.”

The Great British Bake Off began life on BBC Two in 2010, where it became a firm favourite with spectators before moving to BBC One in 2014.

Last year’s final was the UK’s most watched television programme of the year, with 13.4 million viewers tuning in to ensure Hussain win the competition.


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