These are The Great British Bake Off most successful contestants (2024)

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Keeping things fresh is something that Syabira clearly values; a keen gamer as well as a whizz in the kitchen, Syabira is currently cooking up a children's book series. “It's still at the beginning. I'm taking my sweet time to decide what I want to put in the book, so it takes a long time.

Josh Smalley

Josh is a 27-year-old post-doctoral research associate of chemistry from Leicestershire. His chemistry background made him the bookies favourite to win Bake Off this year from the start with odds of 9/4.

Nadiya Hussain, 38, won GBBO in 2015, and earns the most of all the winners. Boasting over 870K Instagram followers, she earns £3,726.87 for every post she uploads. She has an estimated net worth of £3.7m, according to Heart FM. This is down to her TV shows and cookery books.

Congratulations are in order for Rahul Mandal, the 2018 winner of The Great British Baking Show, who is officially a married man. On December 4, 2022, the baker took to Instagram to post a heartfelt video that explained he was getting married in Kolkata, India, on December 5, 2022.

The series was won by Peter Sawkins, with Dave Friday and Laura Adlington finishing as the runners-up. Sawkins is the first Scottish winner of the programme, and also the youngest winner in the show's 10-year history, at the age of 20. Series 11 was released on Netflix in the U.S. as Collection 8.

And I'm really proud of what I achieved so far: I got a PhD and then I won Bake Off! My first week in England, I had to eat egg and cress sandwiches, sandwiches every day! And I just sat on a bench at my university and cried.

After my degree, I worked as an agronomist in a plant breeding company in Malaysia called Green World Genetics. To satisfy my curiosity, I decided to do a PhD in genetics to understand what is going on inside the plants. I secured a PhD position in 2013 in the Plant Science Department of University of Leicester.

The series was won by David Atherton, who became the first winner never to have won the Star Baker title since it was introduced. Alice Fevronia and Steph Blackwell finished as runners-up.

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The Great British Bake Off aired its New Year special today (January 1), with returning bakers Mark (series 11), Maxy (series 13), Maggie and Jürgen (both series 12). There was festive food and innuendo aplenty, with Maxy crowned as Star Baker at the end of it.

Has Bake Off had its Brexit moment? This was the first all-male final in 10 years, following the semi-final dismissal of viewer-favourite Tasha and her trusty British Sign Language interpreter. And this being the final, we were granted a glimpse of the bakers' back stories.

It was previously reported that Noel makes around £200,000 per series of Bake Off, according to The Sun. Meanwhile, Alison is no stranger to the programme as she took part in Celebrity Great British Bake Off which helps to raise money for Stand Up to Cancer.

Nancy Birtwhistle (winner)

1954) is a British baker who, in winning the fifth series in 2014 at the age of 60, became the oldest winner of The Great British Bake Off. Birtwhistle – a grandmother of eight – had applied to appear in the program in 2013 but was unsuccessful.

After the contestants submit their recipes and they're approved by production, the team gathers the ingredients they'll need for the challenges. "Everything that we need for our bakes is provided by the team, within reason of course," Bansal said.

Richard Burr currently holds the title record, winning five times (of a possible nine). Each series winner has usually received the Star Baker award at some point, but the accolade holds no influence on the outcome.

There were twelve bakers taking part. Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood returned as judges, whilst Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc continued to present the series. Richard Burr was awarded the largest number of star baker designations of any series so far but was beaten by Nancy Birtwhistle in the final.

Do the contestants on The Great British Bake Off get paid? The answer to that is simply no - in fact, some are even left out of pocket for being on the show. Contestants have to pay for their own ingredients to practise at home, which can work out quite expensive.