Matt Lucas says David Walliams was behind the decision to quit Pick Off

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Matt Lucas has revealed he has quit The Great British Bake Off so he can do a new sketch show with David Walliams.

In December, the comedian announced he was stepping down from presenting the baking competition on Channel 4 after three years of presenting it alongside Noel Fielding.

Speaking on BBC Radio 2’s The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show this morning (26 January), Lucas said: “David Walliams and I started writing together again. We thought it was time, so we quit our jobs and decided to do it.

“I mean, I’m still in the fantasy football league, obviously. We just got started last week.”

He said they had already decided what the concept of the new series would be, explaining: “It’s going to be a show with us playing a lot of characters. But we’ve got to write the treatment for it and we’ve got to go and define it and see if anybody wants to do it.”

“But if someone wants to do it, we’ll be happy to do it.”

Lucas and Walliams are best known for their controversial Noughties show, Little Britain, which in recent years has faced accusations of racism due to the pair’s appearances on the series.

Noel Fielding and Matt Lucas on GBBO

(© Mark Bourdillon)

Walliams was recently replaced as host of Britain’s Got Talent after his derogatory comments about contestants leaked – including sexually explicit remarks about a woman and another instance in which he called an elderly man a “c***”.

He was replaced by Bruno Tonioli on the ITV talent show. Lucas’s Bake Off replacement has yet to be announced.

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