Ex-Bake Off host Sue Perkins would get Paul Hollywood’s attention by hitting him in crotch with bread
EX-Bake Off host Sue Perkins used to whack Paul Hollywood under the bread basket with a loaf to get his attention.
But the silver-haired Scouser hit back with his own baguette-based bashing.
Sue, 51, revealed: “For a while Paul and I only spoke through the medium of violence. Early doors, there were a lot of props, big lifelike plastic baguettes.
";I’d smash a cob into his b******s. I mean, really hard as well, no messing. Like a stab.”
Show judge Paul, 54, was quick to get revenge.
Sue added: “If I’d just finished a link that wasn’t really going anywhere, he’d appear and uppercut me with a baguette that would knock my teeth together.
“What I loved was we never formulated a plan to do that, it just emerged.
“I don’t know if there was some bristling sexual tension underneath — who knows what the driver was — but it was pure violence, but with props.”
She told the Off Menu podcast: “Once there was a French plait that I got him in the twain with.
“He was legs akimbo, delivering some interminable verdict that was never going to make the edit and I just ran and I just got it. Oh, it was good.”
Sue and Mel Giedroyc, 52, hosted BBC Bake Off from 2010 until it moved to Channel 4 in 2017.
Paul stayed with the show and quadrupled his salary but has said: “I remember crying when I realised I wasn’t going to work with them again.
"I was really upset. They are like sisters and Mary (Berry) is like my mum.”
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