Ex The Neat British Bake Off host Sue Perkins revealed her relationship with Paul Hollywood left her "hurt" after her difference from the show.

Sue presented the hit BBC show alongside Mel Giedroyc for six years before leaving in 2016.

The pop hosts' departures came equally a result of the show moving from the Beeb over to Channel four.

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Mary Drupe as well joined Sue and Mel in taking the decision to stay loyal to the BBC.

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That wasn't the instance for Kent resident Paul, who followed the evidence to Channel 4 and still appears on the programme today.

Speaking on the Table Manners podcast terminal twelvemonth, Sue reflected on her relationship with Paul.

She admitted "he was actually good fun" to work alongside and that the group got on well when filming.

Mel Giedroyc, Sue Perkins, Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood

Yet, after the dissever, cracks started to appear in their relationship.

Sue said: "When we were there [on the show] he was really expert fun, and things happened that made us deplorable and incredibly hurt – he was ever like family unit, for years and years and years.

"And it'southward painful when those things end... I'm devastated about what happened but I feel talking well-nigh it is just uncool and y'all first pointing the finger."

Sue avoided going into any more detail about the fallout having herself moved onto new projects including a number of Television receiver and radio gigs.

This calendar week it was reported that she had separated from her long-term girlfriend Anna Richardson, who herself is known for presenting Naked Allure.

Paul is the only one remaining of the original four

On The Great British Bake Off Sue and Mel were replaced by Noel Fielding and Sandi Toksvig.

Sandi would later be replaced by Matt Lucas who presented his first series last yr.

Prue Leith came in for Mary Drupe to piece of work alongside Paul.

How the Bake Off journeying started for Mel and Sue

The comedy duo fronted the baking contest from it's start episode in 2010 and became famous for their 'soggy bottom' and 'hot baps' innuendos.

It wasn't the offset time the pair had worked together, having met as students at Cambridge University more than 30 years ago and performing on phase together at Edinburgh'due south Fringe Festival.

And then they got their big suspension writing for French and Saunders - with the occasional screen appearance, before fronting their own show, Tardily Lunch, on Channel iv.

Sue Perkins

Sue had worked aslope Mel for years

After a few roller coaster years, during which Mel had ii daughters, they were persuaded to reunite in 2010 to host a small baking program that blew up beyond their wildest expectations.

"In the beginning, all I thought was, 'mortgage, mortgage, mortgage'. I did information technology for the money. Neither Sue nor I thought it would work. A show about baking? What?!," explained Mel.

The ii presenters have been a formidable team, with their "good cop, bad cop" arroyo and their many double entendres.

Their allusion-laced references too every bit comments such as "You have got two hours to pop Mary'due south cherry..." were a major hit with viewers.

How it all came crashing downward

Channel 4 paid a whopping £75million to take Broil Off from its habitation, with makers Love Productions getting four times what the Beeb paid.

It seemed a given that all judges and presenters would move over and get bumper new deals, just Mel and Sue announced they were quitting.

The pair confessed they were "shocked and saddened" to discover the news and explained they "made no secret" of their want for the show to remain where it was.

The BBC nurtured the evidence from its infancy and helped give information technology its distinctive warmth and charm, growing information technology from an audience of two one thousand thousand to virtually 15 at its top," they wrote.

Claiming they weren't leaving for the money in a clever pun, they added: "We're not going with the dough. Nosotros wish all the future bakers every success."

The first seven seasons will be available to stream

Looking at the old line-upwardly will bring back nostalgia for many

Insiders said they were furious that Love had failed to inform them most the departure from the BBC, whose offer of £45million had been rejected.

A source told The Mirror: "It was very last minute. Mel and Sue only got a very brief heads-up before it was being reported everywhere and they're an integral role of the show."

Jay Hunt, who sealed the Channel 4 bargain, was reported to initially be furious at the presenters' "betrayal", but sources insisted there was no longer bad claret, with Mel and Sue exchanging "amicable" text messages with Hunt.