Former 'Great British Bake Off' co-hosts Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins no longer watch the show because it would make them too "sad".
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Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc
The presenting pair fronted the baking programme for six years until its switch from BBC One to Channel 4 in 2016, and since the move they haven't been able to tune in.
Sue said: "I just think it would make me sad to watch it.
"We gave it everything we had and we made a decision that was easy to make, but hard sometimes to reflect upon. You just wish it well."
Mel added: "But also, and I know this sounds disingenuous, but I have only just watched our series.
"I have watched bits and bobs.
"I am very late to the game. But I haven’t watched 'The Wire' yet, either."
Mel and Sue both agree that had they remained on 'Bake Off' they would've planned to leave when Mary Berry - who also quit the show following the move to Channel 4 - exited as a judge.
Sue said: "I think we would have done 10 years, something like that.
"A 10-year anniversary and then Mary would have maybe gone on to pastures new and we would have left with her."
Mel added: "That’s my only regret, that Mary didn’t get her anniversary show."
While Sue believes she and Mel could've remained on the programme for a few more years, she isn't sure they would've topped the 2015 series when Nadiya Hussain triumphed.
Speaking in a joint interview with The Times newspaper, Sue said: "For me there is an element of wistfulness about, 'We could have had a couple more years.'
"But once you have a show like Nadiya, who is a lightning rod of humility and fabulousness and 16 million people watch it, I think you know that the graph has peaked."
While Mel, Sue, and Mary departed the programme in 2016, the celebrity chef's fellow judge Paul Hollywood stayed on for the Channel 4 series.
Sue recently admitted she and Mel felt "incredibly sad" when they departed 'Bake Off'.
She said: "When we were there, Paul [Hollywood] was incredibly fun - and then stuff happened that made us incredibly sad and incredibly hurt.
"But he was always like family for years and years, and it's painful when those things end, especially in the way they did end.
"I'm devastated about what happened, lots of it. I just feel that you become uncool and start pointing the finger and you become as bad as everybody else."
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