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An section of Channel 4‘s Celebrity Great British Bake Off featuring disgraced ex-BBC power presenter Scott Mills has been axed.
A spokesperson for Channel 4 told outlets that “having cautiously considered nan circumstances, we’ve taken nan determination not to aerial nan last section of nan 2026 bid of The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up to Cancer, featuring Scott Mills.”
The Mills ep was owed to aerial Sunday April 18 but an “alternative” will spell retired successful its place, Channel 4 said. He appeared successful nan ep of Channel 4’s most-watched show alongside nan likes of vocalist Rag n Bone Man, broadcaster Edith Bowman and JLS personnel Aston Merrygold.
Celebrity Great British Bake Off is nan celeb type of Channel 4’s top-rated deed from Love Productions. Unlike nan main series, it features 4 caller contestants per ep, meaning that Channel 4 isn’t faced pinch nan dilemma of having an full bid to dump.
After news collapsed of a erstwhile police probe into Mills for humanities intersexual offence allegations reportedly involving a kid nether nan property of 16, Mills was dropped from a Race Across nan World spin-off he was owed to big for nan BBC.
The Mills saga dominated headlines past week. He was 1 of nan top-paid BBC presenters, hosting nan BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show, and his profession astatine nan corp spanned astir 30 years.
He was fired 10 days agone aft caller accusation came to ray complete historical allegations he faced of superior intersexual offenses against a teenage boy. He was questioned by constabulary successful 2017 and nan BBC was alert but nan BBC said nan caller accusation had emerged complete nan past fewer weeks starring to his sacking. The BBC’s admittance has raised superior questions astir why nan corp kept Mills on-air successful 2017.
