Sophie Faldo

The Great British Bake Off is a British television baking competition, produced by Love Productions.

Steven Carter-Bailey (born 1982/83), one of the runners-up of the eighth series, was a marketer from Watford, Hertfordshire, at the time of the competition.

David Atherton was born in Whitby, North Yorkshire in 1983 and lived in the village of Ruswarp until he was 18.

Kate Lyon (born 1987/88), one of the runners-up of the eighth series, was a health and safety inspector from Merseyside at the time of the competition.

Rahul Mandal (born 1987) is an Indian baker and engineering researcher, who won the ninth series in 2018.

Mandal also works as an engineering researcher at the University of Sheffield's Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre.

Mandal is an only child.

Born in Howrah, India, his mother was a housewife and his father runs a business supplying engineering parts across India.

Rahul graduated from the West Bengal University of Technology with a Bachelor's degree in electronics and communication engineering and then from the University of Calcutta with a master's degree in optics and optoelectronics.

Ruby Bhogal (born 1988), one of runners-up of the ninth series, is a project manager in London.

Bhogal has written columns for GQ, The Luxury Lifestyle Magazine and GoodHomes.

Kim-Joy Hewlett (born 1991), one of runners-up of the ninth series, was a psychological wellbeing practitioner at the time of the competition.

She has since released three cookbooks and written a baking column for The Guardian.

She returned for The Great New Year Bake Off special, aired on 1 January 2022, against Jon Jenkins (series nine) and two other contestants of the eleventh series—Hermine and Rowan Williams.

Kim-Joy was crowned its winner.

It premiered on BBC Two in 2010, then moved to BBC One in 2014, and then moved to Channel 4 in 2017.

This list contains sections about annual winners and runners-up who appeared from series eight onward, which aired on Channel 4.

The information seen in tables, including age and occupation, are based on the time of filming.

He came to the United Kingdom in 2010 on a scholarship to study for his PhD in Optical Metrology at Loughborough University and his thesis was on Calibration and Adjustment of Coherence Scanning Interferometry.

Faldo rowed to a high standard and was part of the Molesey Boat Club eight that won bronze at the 2011 British Rowing Championships.

He joined the Nuclear AMRC in 2015.

Sophie Faldo is a former British Army officer who was the winner of the eighth series in 2017, the first series to be broadcast on Channel 4.

Faldo was born in London and grew up in Suffolk.

She studied psychology at the University of Manchester and Toulouse.

She joined the Royal Artillery and has served in Afghanistan.

After leaving the Army, she worked as a personal trainer, taught military boot camps, and was training to be a stuntwoman when she was convinced by her chef boyfriend to apply for The Great British Bake Off.

Faldo won the competition.

Twelve hours before the final episode, judge Prue Leith accidentally tweeted the results.

She appeared in an episode of a TV series Travels with a Goat on Insight TV, travelling to southern Kenya with Spanish food vlogger Abraham Bandera Baez.

Carter-Bailey re-competed against Tamal Ray (series six), Candice Brown (series seven, winner), and Kate Henry (series five) for the 2018–19 New Year's special.

He was crowned the special's winner.

Since Bake Off, Carter-Bailey worked for ITV London covering London bakeries and released his first podcast Feed My Curiosity in 2021.

In 2018, Mandal won the ninth series, whose finals was viewed by 10 million households.

He was then signed as a columnist for The Times Magazine, a part of the Saturday supplement of The Times, and occasionally cooks on the ITV daytime show This Morning.

In 2018, Mandal became a self-declared STEM ambassador.

Mandal married his fiancee in Kolkata, India, on 5 December 2022.

As of September 2020, she studied for a master's degree in occupational health and safety.

One of contestants this series was absent on the fourth week, leading the judges to decide not to eliminate anyone in that person's absence.

She re-competed for the 2020 Bake Off Christmas special against eliminated non-finalists Jamie Finn (series ten), Rosie Brandreth-Poynter (series ten), and James Hillery (series eight).

She also made guest appearances in This Morning and Steph's Packed Lunch.