Matt Lucas has published that he give upThe Great British Bake Off in order that he may make a brand new cartoon display with David Walliams.
In December, the comedian announced he was stepping down from presenting the Channel 4 baking competition after 3 years fronting it along Noel Fielding.
Talking on The Zoe Ball Breakfast Display on BBC Radio 2 this morning (26 January), Lucas stated: “Me and David Walliams have began writing in combination once more. We simply concept it was once time, so we give up our jobs and determined to try this.
“I imply I nonetheless do Delusion Soccer League, clearly. We simply began final week.”
He stated that they’ve already determined what the idea that of the brand new collection is, explaining: “It’ll be a display with us enjoying plenty of characters. However we need to write the remedy for it and we need to move and pitch it and notice if someone desires to make it.
“But when any individual desires to make it, we’ll be delighted to do it.”
Lucas and Walliams are well-known for his or her arguable Noughties cartoon display,Little Britain, which in recent times has confronted accusations of racism because of the pair showing in blackface within the collection.
Noel Fielding and Matt Lucas on ‘GBBO’
(© Mark Bourdillon)
Walliams was once not too long ago changed as a bunch on Britain’s Were given Ability after his derogatory comments about contestants – together with sexually particular remarks about one girl and any other example wherein he described an aged guy as a “c***” – had been leaked.
He was once changed through Bruno Tonioli at the ITV ability display. Lucas’s Bake Off alternative is but to be introduced.