It has become one of the nation’s most comforting shows, having run for 16 years and counting, and it introduced a whole new generation to the likes of Dame Mary Berry and Prue Leith.
However, Mel Giedroyc, who was there at the very beginning of The Great British Bake Off, revealed that she nearly quit on “day one, series one” because it was not the “kind of show” with which she wanted to be involved.
