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Great British Bake Off’s Noel Fielding is avoiding cake

Fielding said he’d lost weight to play singer Alice Cooper and described sugar as “a very powerful thing”.

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Noel Fielding (Dominic Lipinski/PA)

While Great British Bake Off viewers salivate over the sight of cake, host Noel Fielding will be resisting temptation.

Fielding, 44, who is hosting the Channel 4 show alongside Sandi Toksvig, 59, appears to be watching his figure.

“Sugar is a very powerful thing, I get more work when I’m thinner, so I can’t put on weight,” he told The Sunday Times Magazine.

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The judges and presenters of The Great British Bake Off (Love Productions/Channel 4/Mark/Press Association images)

The comedian said he likes cake and has “a very sweet tooth”, but added: “I don’t eat anything, I’m like a plant.”

He stopped eating sugar to lose a stone to play singer Alice Cooper on-screen.

“You can’t just get straight back on to sugar, as it’s quite a powerful thing,” he added.

In contrast, former host Mel Giedroyc, who fronted the then BBC show with Sue Perkins, previously admitted putting on three quarters of a stone every year thanks to her time in the tent.

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Mel Giedroyc launches the Marie Curie Blooming Great Tea Party fundraiser (Ian West/PA)

When asked for her favourite episode of the show, she replied: “The one where they make cake? I don’t watch a lot of television; I’m more of a reader.”

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Noel Fielding (Chris Radburn/PA)

The trailer for the show recently dropped with singing cakes, but the judges and hosts nowhere to be seen.

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