Great British Bake Off: Nadiya has had 'no offer' from Channel 4
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Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain said she has had "no offers" from Channel 4 to join the show.
"I love writing, cooking and baking. I'm enjoying what I'm doing and I don't want it to be taken away from me," the Junior Bake Off judge told the BBC.
When asked if Channel 4 had approached her about the show, which is moving from BBC One, she told Newsround: "No."
Channel 4 signed a three-year deal earlier this month with Love Productions, which makes the programme.
But judge Mary Berry will not move after she quit The Great British Bake Off last week out of loyalty to the BBC, a few days after presenters Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins also decided not to make the move to Channel 4.
Paul Hollywood is the only Bake Off star to have agreed to stick with the show and switch to Channel 4, so there is speculation as to who will present and judge the show.
It was announced last month that Hussain, who won in 2015, was to judge the CBBC junior version of the show, alongside chef and food writer Allegra McEvedy.
Channel 4 will begin airing the programme in 2017, starting with a celebrity special in aid of Stand Up To Cancer.
Hussain was asked by BBC Breakfast about her views on Bake Off changing channel, but responded by saying: "It's old news.
"Change happens, change comes, wherever it [the show] goes I just want it to do well, whatever happens, wherever it goes."
But when asked about the importance of Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins to the show, she said: "Mel and Sue are so important to the show. Every time I was falling apart they'd come and say, 'It's just cake, come on you can do this.'"
She added it is "the least competitive competition in the world" and that "you like each other, there's camaraderie in the competition, you don't see that anywhere else."
She said: "You want to win and do really well and you want everyone to do well as well."
BBC and Channel 4 debate
The BBC and Channel 4 clashed over Bake Off on Tuesday at the Royal Television Society, external London Conference.
James Purnell, the BBC's director of strategy and education was in a debate with Channel 4's chief creative officer Jay Hunt.
Hunt said: "I understand that you feel aggrieved about Bake Off although it is worth remembering the BBC lost Bake Off. Channel 4 didn't take Bake Off."
Purnell told her: "You have a remit which you describe yourself as 'born risky'. I think there's real questions about whether buying Bake Off qualifies for that."
The Great British Bake Off began life on BBC Two in 2010, where it became a firm favourite with viewers before moving to BBC One in 2014.
Last year's final was the UK's most watched television programme of the year, with 13.4 million viewers tuning in to see Hussain win the competition.
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