Ready Steady Cook is coming back with a new host

The BBC are bringing back the legendary cooking show Ready Steady Cook but without host Ainsley Harriott.

BBC have handed the show to Rylan Clark-Neal, who will front the programme when it returns in 2020.

The show which Ainsley hosted for more than 1,000 episodes before the show was axed in 2010 with make it move from BBC1 to BBC2.

The producers have said they have revamped franchise that will reflect contemporary food themes, from cooking on a budget to eating healthily, mirroring the changes in food and British cooking over the past decade.

The show previously helped launch the careers of a series of household name chef such as Gino D’Acampo and James Martin.