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    Bake Off Contestants: Our Favourites Over The Years

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    Bake Off Contestants: Our Favourites Over The Years

    Bake Off isn’t just about cooking up cookies, breads, cakes and biscuits, let’s be honest, the contestants are the REAL reason we tune into the show (that and Paul Hollywood’s deep blue eyes, of course).

    Over the years, we’ve enjoyed getting to know the weird, the wonderful, the funny and the lovely – we’re taking a look back at our absolute favourites!

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    Selasi Gbormittah

    Selasi stole the show in 2016 thanks to his utterly relaxed nature in the tent. Surrounded by panicking bakers, the cool dude manage to stay calm and collected throughout every showstopper. Since leaving the show he’s been busy – launching events and thankfully, baking some amazing delights.

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    Paul Jagger

    Paul’s claim to fame was his lion, which he made out of bread. In fact, it’s so famous that it gets mentioned every single year on bread week!

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    Val Stones

    Val was the hilarious retired headteacher from Doncaster who sang to her bakes. We’ll remember her for her Noah’s Ark biscuit creation and her penchant for constantly dropping her food. Her exit speech was also pretty tear-jerking:

    “When you bake, you always bake for a reason. And you’re giving it to people, so you make it the best you can. And you make it with love. Whenever I make anything, I stir love into it, I knead love into it, so when I present it, it’s special. I’m not unhappy. I’ve had a great time with some great people. I didn’t expect to ever get here, never mind be on it.”

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    Ruby Tandoh

    At just 21, at her time, Ruby was the youngest contestant ever to grace the Bake Off tent. Although she didn’t win the show, she made it to the final and had a hattrick of Star Baker awards to take home.

     

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    Liam Charles

    One of our absolute favourite Bake Off contestants! After leaving the tent in week eight (he quickly became a series favourite), Liam’s career has gone from strength to strength. He’s currently presenting Bake Off: The Professionals alongside Tom Allen, presented his very own programme, Liam Bakes, on Channel 4. Oh and he has a cookbook: Cheeky Treats: 70 Brilliant Bakes and Cakes. 

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    Kim-Joy Hewlett

    Like her name Kim-Joy, the loveable baker certainly did bring joy to us all with her gorgeously creative bakes during the 2018 season. With mermaid bread to cat-inspired showstoppers, Kim-Joy recreates her bakes in her cook book.

    Tweeting about her first recipe book, she wrote:

    “I like to think that the cover is a reflection of what’s inside – colourful photos and positive messages to keep you going.”

     

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    Happy International Women’s Day! 💖👸🏻Whether you’re short, gay, straight, size 6, size 20, have a disability, tall, trans, cis, black, brown, yellow, white, mixed race, rich, poor, living with mental illness, young, old, a baker or not a baker….. today is for all of us, and a chance to celebrate how valued and amazing us women are. So let’s keep celebrating other amazing women, and also celebrating ourselves and not giving in to popular culture’s definition of how to be a successful woman! We are more than how we look, more than our CV, more than our ability to have the perfect job/house/kids/etc. We aren’t defined by how others see us through the lens of social norms and expectations.

    Celebrate who you are and what makes you sparkle! I like that I’m a nice person and I have way too many clothes that are yellow. And I slightly waddle when I walk but I think it makes me kind of cute, like a penguin. Plus I can bake and that’s like a super power!! 💁🏻‍♀️ And thanks to @britishbakeoff we’ve had loads of women from different backgrounds get a chance to show off their skills. All the ladies from my year @imelda__rose @karenwrightbake @manonlagreve (I love this pic of us cause we look so happy!) @brionymaybakes @rubybhogal, plus too many to mention from other years!! Happy women’s day! ✨✨✨ photo by another lovely lady: @jennifermoyesphoto 📸😀 . . . . #bakers #internationalwomensday #internationalwomensday2020 #womenempowerment #womensupportingwomen #gbbo #loveyourself #allwomen #iwd2020 #bekind

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