Sue Perkins has hit out at ‘disgusting’ BBC bosses over the treatment of Bake Off contestants and revealed she and co-host Mel Giedroyc threatened to quit unless the format was changed.The presenter, 57, spoke candidly on this week’s How To Fail podcast episode with Elizabeth Day when she reflected on the hosting role she held from 2010 to 2016.Mel, 58, and Sue have previously revealed that they nearly quit the show on the very first day of filming in 2010, before confronting producers about wanting a warmer and kinder format. The pair did then actually resign from the series in September 2016 when the show announced its move from the BBC to Channel 4.In the new podcast chat she recounted calling the BBC’s director general to demand change, risking her career to stand up for kindness on set. Sue explained of her time presenting on the show: ‘It was always like “get the narrative”, but get the most dramatic narrative and make people cry and that’s what they tried to do. Sue Perkins has hit out at ‘disgusting’ BBC bosses over the treatment of Bake Off contestants and revealed she and co-host Mel Giedroyc threatened to quit unless the format was changed The presenter, 57, spoke candidly on this week’s How To Fail podcast episode with Elizabeth Day when she reflected on the hosting role she held from 2010 to 2016’And then we just said, “We’ve had enough of this.” And we walked out and for some reason I found myself on the phone to the director general of the BBC and I have no idea why.’She continued: ‘We were raising complaints about behaviours and all the rest of it. ‘It just seemed very important in that moment that when people were entering our office, our workspace, that we treated them with respect. ‘You don’t put a camera in their face and ask about their dead dad. How disgusting.’Sue recalled her and Mel speaking to a producer who asked them to remain on the show and not resign.She then said: ‘We didn’t… we’re just grumpy women who went, “we’ll get sacked”. ‘I’ve lost so much work from going, “you can’t treat people like this” and I’m the one that gets my P45.’Sue has previously made similar remarks about the show, telling The Guardian: ‘We’re quite cheesy and homespun and we just want to have a laugh.’Who wants to see people crying? I don’t. Especially if you work in television and you know the mechanisms that have been used to make them cry.’ Mel and Sue have previously revealed that they nearly quit the show on the very first day of filming in 2010, before confronting producers about wanting a warmer and kinder show Alison Hammond and Noel Fielding are the current Bake Off presenters She added that she and Mel finally quit Bake Off for good in 2016 after hearing on the news that the show was moving to Channel 4.Sue said: ‘There’s no antagonism there. I just think, “If you’re going to let us find out that way [from TV], then we’re not really a team, are we?”‘Alison Hammond and Noel Fielding are the current Bake Off presenters.This year saw Nigella Lawson join the judging line-up alongside Paul Hollywood, following Dame Prue Leith’s departure from the show.