'Horrendous!' Bake Off's Paul Hollywood rages against fame after marriage breakdown

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Great British Bake Off star Paul Hollywood, 56, has confessed that he was ill-prepared for the intense public scrutiny that followed his marriage breakdown, and also suggested that he never wanted to be a celebrity in the first place.The TV baker says he has since developed crocodile-like thick skin as a reaction against public backlashes."[Fame] is horrendous!

I’ve always fought against the word ‘celebrity’," he exclaimed."Right up to the age of 40, there was no way I thought I was ever going to be on telly."This came out of nowhere, and you have to adapt to it," he told the Radio Times.He added that there was "no school to go to learn how to deal with the press, or your day-to-day life, and how to block it off without going crazy and getting upset".He added sadly that he has had to develop a thick skin to help himself deal with constant commentary on his love life."Now I’ve got a skin like a crocodile," he revealed.He and ex-wife Alex called time on their marriage in 2017 after a string of alleged affairs dating as far back as 2013 - and Alex has never been shy about venting to the world.Peppering her words with food euphemisms, the cookbook author stated that her marriage was "too over seasoned with extra marital affairs for my taste".She revealed on an Instagram post on the subject that she had "opted out and [chosen] the single menu instead".Continuing the wordplay on food, she also quipped: "I still get the occasional well meaning comment - that I'll get 'snapped up soon' (rather like a supermarket mealdeal)."People don't like to believe that a woman can be happier single".Elsewhere in the explosive Instagram post, Alex told the world that she was not only a single woman by choice, but that she'd "fallen in love.