Great Pottery Throw Down star confirms exit from show

rose schmits in the great pottery throwdown
Great Pottery Throw Down star confirms show exit Love Productions - Channel 4

The Great Pottery Throw Down star Rose Schmits has confirmed her exit from the Channel 4 show.

Rose has appeared throughout the last few years of the competition series — which originally aired on BBC Two — as a technician helping the potters fire their challenge submissions in the kiln.

However, it was announced on the show's social media accounts this week that Rose will be departing both The Great Pottery Throw Down and its celebrity spin-off The Festive Pottery Throwdown.

A post on Twitter / X read: "A massive thank you to @RoseKilnWitch who is leaving the show after four series as our kiln tech. Rose has fired everything from jugs to loos and done her utmost to protect the potters from the kiln gods. We wish you and your bow ties the best for the future."

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Rose replied to the post to assure fans that she wasn't let go — she'd decided to leave The Great Pottery Throw Down.

"This was fully my decision by the way they did want me back but it just wasn’t worth it for me anymore," Rose wrote on her X account.

Rose, who is a trans woman, later hit back at suggestions that she'd been dropped by The Great Pottery Throw Down because of her identity.

"Get rekt all you transphobes you had absolutely nothing to do with it," she wrote.

rose schmits in the great pottery throwdown
Love Productions - Channel 4

The Great Pottery Throw Down is made for Channel 4 by Love Productions, the company behind hits such as The Great British Bake Off and Claudia Winkleman's music competition show The Piano.

The pottery-themed reality competition originally aired on BBC Two for its first two seasons, before moving first to More4 and later to Channel 4.

The Great Pottery Throw Down's seventh season ended in March with Donna Bloye becoming the latest winner.

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