Channel 4 has pulled the final episode of the 2026 series of The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up to Cancer featuring Scott Mills, saying it will not air the programme on Sunday April 18. The broadcaster said it had carefully considered the circumstances and decided an alternative episode would go out instead.
The move removes an episode that would have shown Mills competing alongside Rag n Bone Man, Edith Bowman and Aston Merrygold. Channel 4 said that, given the seriousness of the accusations made against Mills, it did not believe it would be appropriate to broadcast the instalment at this time.
The decision lands in a week when Mills is already under intense scrutiny over historic allegations tied to a police probe. He was dropped from a Race Across the World spin-off he was due to host for the after new information came to light, 10 days before the Deadline article, and had previously been questioned by police in 2018 in connection with the allegations.
Mills said he fully cooperated and responded with the police probe, and said it had determined that the evidential threshold had not been met to bring charges. The had kept him on air during the late last decade, a period when he became one of its top-paid presenters and hosted the Radio 2 Breakfast Show during a career there that spanned nearly 30 years.
Channel 4’s decision shows how quickly the ground has shifted around one of the broadcaster’s lighter entertainment slots. What was meant to be a charity special now sits alongside a wider reckoning over allegations that have already cost Mills another television role, and the network has made clear it will not put the episode on air while those accusations remain unresolved in public view.
