Great British Bake Off 2022 finale: Why is Noel Fielding missing? Matt Lucas reveals (2024)

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Great British Bake Off 2022 finale: Why is Noel Fielding missing? Matt Lucas reveals? ›

But Noel Fielding was notably missing at the start of the season finale, which was the last and final episode of the series. According to his co-host Matt Lucas, Noel wouldn't be appearing on the first day of the final because he 'was feeling under the weather'.

Lucas stunned Bake Off fans in December 2022 when he announced that he was quitting the show, after it “became clear” that he could no longer present the show alongside his other projects.

It's okay,” Fielding reassured a worried journalist during the Television Critics Association Winter 2024 panel for The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin. “They let me out of the tent briefly to get on a horse.” No, Noel Fielding's new Apple TV+ show doesn't mean he's quitting The Great British Baking Show.

In 2009, a Sunday Times article revealed that Fielding developed alcohol-induced hepatitis during his college years; he said that he was helped through this time by his friend and collaborator Nigel Coan.

“With Matt it was a bit weird, because we're mates and are probably the same low-status person from our respective double acts, where he has [David] Walliams and I have Julian [Barrett],” Fielding told Times Radio last year. “It was more difficult to find how we worked together, but we managed to find a way,” he added.

She quit the show in 2019, when she was replaced by comedian Matt Lucas. At the time, Toksvig said she was leaving “to spend more time with my other work”. As my waistline will testify, Bake Off is an all-consuming show,” she said in her statement.

But Noel Fielding was notably missing at the start of the season finale, which was the last and final episode of the series. According to his co-host Matt Lucas, Noel wouldn't be appearing on the first day of the final because he 'was feeling under the weather'.

Two years later he spoke of his past A-Z of drugs including MDMA, magic mushrooms, cocaine, ecstasy and ketamine. He said of his early career: "I took too many drugs and was hanging out with the wrong people. "MDMA is too strong for me.

Noel explained that due to the TV stars already being friends and best known for being in double acts, it took them a while to find their on-screen chemistry. Noel told Radio Times: "With Matt it was a bit weird because we're mates and are probably the same low-status person from our respective double acts.

Matt Lucas is bald because he has a condition called alopecia universalis. This is an autoimmune disorder in which the immune system attacks the hair follicles, leading to complete hair loss on the scalp and elsewhere on the body.

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