Great British Bake Off’s Paul Hollywood would like people to stop calling him a “traitor,” please

When fans of The Great British Bake Off look at the fallout of the show’s move from BBC One to Channel Four—losing three of its beloved hosts, Mary Berry, Sue Perkins, and Mel Giedroyc, in the process—it’s easy to see Paul Hollywood, the only one who stuck around, as the villain. (It doesn’t help that Hollywood is the closest thing the almost perversely gentle cooking competition has to a “bad guy,” playing the stern-faced bad cop to Berry’s scrummy sweetness.) Hollywood responded to that perception in a recent interview with Closer magazine—one of the first he’s given on his feelings about the changeover—remarking that he’s getting a little tired of people calling him a “traitor” for the crime of not wanting to lose his job.