Business as usual for BBC as dodgy duo remain front and centre

SO after all that... the show is basically the same apart from some minor tweaks.

- BY TOM BRYANT ASSOCIATE EDITOR, SHOWBIZ

There are fewer jokes, a little less banter perhaps.

But Gregg Wallace and John Torode are still very much front and centre of the new series.

The BBC say the decision to air it at all is what the contestants wanted (bar one who demanded they were edited out).

What a load of tosh.

This is all about what the BBC wanted: namely, saving money.

Scrapping this series would have left a gaping - and very expensive - hole in the schedule for months on end.