Bake Off and Packed Lunch star reveals he’s quit TV for good after 12 years onscreen

A FORMER Great British Bake Off victor has revealed he's discontinue TV nutrient bully aft 12 years connected screen.

The 35-year-old changeable to fame erstwhile helium won Bake Off successful 2012 and went connected to person a regular cooking conception connected Steph's Packed Lunch.

But John Whaite has confessed he's permanently swapped telly enactment for sharing steamy contented connected OnlyFans.

It was revealed past twelvemonth that John had made a instrumentality to the subscription platform.

And during a Q&A with fans helium was asked if helium disquieted it would impact his TV career.

John replied: "There are nary aboriginal TV jobs for me.

"I near the manufacture implicit a twelvemonth agone and haven't erstwhile missed it. It was fun.

"I met immoderate fantastic radical and I'm grateful for everything I did. But I'm successful a antithetic signifier of my beingness and I'm loving the freedom."

John - who took portion successful the 2021 bid of Strictly Come Dancing - besides revealed the crushed helium signed up for OnlyFans.

He said: "Life is excessively abbreviated to instrumentality yourself seriously.

"In fact, beingness is absurd. And I spent 12 years being f***** by the TV manufacture successful plain sight."

John archetypal acceptable up an OnlyFans relationship successful 2022 but swiftly unopen it, aboriginal revealing "regrets" implicit the move.

He told Attitude astatine the time: “The much I was connected it, the much wealth I was making, the much I was consenting to springiness more.

"I had to beryllium successful power of that behaviour and say, ‘Nope, halt this now, earlier it goes excessively far'. I regret it deeply.”