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‘The Profit’ host abandons bid to help rebuild Crumbs

There’s a little icing for𒁃 The Profit as he tak🍬es his losses on Crumbs.

Marcus Lemonis, the CNBC star who coaches small businesses, called it quits Tuesd𒉰ay on plans to ✃turn around Crumbs Bake Shop — the cupcake chain that he and Fischer Enterprises purchased from bankruptcy in August 2014.

“I’m moving o🌱n,” Lemonis told The Post, but b🤡y doing so, the reality-TV star is taking “a significant loss.”

“The Profit” host called his Crumbs partners of the past year — a father-and-son team named Fischer — “nice people.” But they were majority owners, he said, and his being a minority owner didn’t allow hi🍬m to “effect change” at a pace he felt necessary.

Fischer Enterprises C🍸hief Operating Officer Scott Fischer confirmed the breakup and aꦇssured Crumbs’ customers they’ll “not be impacted by this transaction.”

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He also confirmed that the breakup allows Lemonis to use the Crumbs brand not for cupcakes but for cookies, candy and ice crea♉m.

Lemonis had been toying with product-line expansion even before fronting the $൲6.5 mi𝔍llion bid that brought Crumbs out of bankruptcy.

“O📖ur goal is to create a viable business model by making Crumbs the nation’s ‘swee✃t and snack’ destination,” he said on announcing his joint venture with the Fischers.

Crumbs start⛎ed out on Manhattan’s Upper West Side in 2003 but outgrew iꦬts origins to become the country’s largest cupcake chain with 79 locations in eight states.

A cash crunch in July 2014 moved the then-public firm to shutter all of ꦛits locations overnight, leaving 400-plus workers without jobs. Before that, the Fischers lent Crumbs $5 million — an amount that formed the basis of its bankruptcy bid.