List of The Great British Bake Off finalists (series 8–present)

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

Series 8 (2017)

Baker	Age	Occupation	Hometown	Star Baker	Result
Sophie Faldo	33	Former army officer and trainee stuntwoman	West Molesey, Surrey	2
Steven Carter-Bailey	34	Marketer	Watford, Hertfordshire	3
Kate Lyon	29	Health and safety inspector	Merseyside	1

Sophie Faldo (winner)

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

Steven Carter-Bailey

Steven Carter-Bailey, one of the runners-up of the eighth series, was a marketer from Watford, Hertfordshire, at the time of the competition.
Carter-Bailey re-competed against Tamal Ray, Candice Brown, and Kate Henry 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.

Kate Lyon

Kate Lyon, one of the runners-up of the eighth series, was a health and safety inspector from Merseyside at the time of the competition. As of September 2020, she studied for a master's degree in occupational health and safety.

Series 9 (2018)

Baker	Age	Occupation	Hometown	Star Baker	Result
Rahul Mandal	30	Research scientist	Rotherham	2
Ruby Bhogal	29	Project manager	London	2
Kim-Joy Hewlett	27	Mental health specialist	Leeds	2

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.

Rahul Mandal (winner)

Rahul Mandal 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. 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. He joined the Nuclear AMRC in 2015.
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 fiancée in Kolkata, India, on 5 December 2022.

Ruby Bhogal

Ruby Bhogal, 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. She re-competed for the 2020 Bake Off Christmas special against eliminated non-finalists Jamie Finn, Rosie Brandreth-Poynter, and James Hillery. She also made guest appearances on This Morning and Steph's Packed Lunch.

Kim-Joy

Kim-Joy Hewlett, 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 and two other contestants of the eleventh series—Hermine and Rowan Williams. Kim-Joy was crowned its winner.

Series 10 (2019)

Baker	Age	Occupation	Hometown	Star Baker	Result
David Atherton	36	International health adviser	Whitby	-
Steph Blackwell	28	Shop assistant	Chester	4
Alice Fevronia	28	Geography teacher	Essex	2

David Atherton (winner)

David Atherton was born in Whitby, North Yorkshire in 1983 and lived in the village of Ruswarp until he was 18. He has four siblings. He studied art and design before deciding on a career in healthcare and training as a nurse. He has a post-graduate degree in wilderness and expedition medicine, and works as a health adviser for Voluntary Service Overseas. Atherton followed in the footsteps of his mother who volunteered for VSO in Papua New Guinea in the 1970s. Atherton has worked in various countries around the world, such as Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Papua New Guinea and Nigeria, including a stint as a clinical instructor in Malawi.
Atherton took part in the tenth series of The Great British Bake Off, encouraged by friends in his pottery class. He was crowned the winner.
Atherton started writing a cookery column for The Guardian in 2020 on food for fitness. His first book, titled My First Cookbook, is a children's cookbook published by Walker books in August 2020. In 2021, he published two additional follow-up versions for young cooks: My First Green Cookbook and Bake, Make, and Learn to Cook. In May 2021, he published Good to Eat, which focuses on delivering healthy twists to classic recipes.
David lives in South London with his partner Nik Sariyski, who is a visual merchandising manager at Nike. He came out as gay at age 29.

Steph Blackwell

Steph Blackwell, one of the runners-up of the tenth series, was a shop assistant at the time of the competition. Blackwell was awarded Star Baker four times. She has baked "simple and traditional" recipes.

Alice Fevronia

Alice Fevronia, one of runners-up of the tenth series, was a geography teacher from London at the time of the competition. She has written column articles for the Delish website.

Series 11 (2020)

Baker	Age	Occupation	Hometown	Star Baker	Result
Peter Sawkins	20	Accounting and finance student	Edinburgh	2
Dave Friday	30	Armoured security guard	Waterlooville, Hampshire	1
Laura Adlington	31	Digital manager	Gravesend, Kent	1

Peter Sawkins (winner)

Peter Sawkins is a Scottish baker and student from Currie, Edinburgh. He won the eleventh series in 2020, which was filmed under special circumstances due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He won the title of Star Baker twice on the show and is known for his gluten-free fancies. He was the youngest contestant in the 2020 series, as well as the youngest winner and youngest finalist in the history of the competition.
Sawkins first became interested in baking at the age of 12 after watching the third series. He plays badminton, and has played in national competitions in the sport since 2012. He was a member of the 65th Edinburgh company of the Boys' Brigade. He was also president of the badminton club at the University of Edinburgh, where he studied accounting and finance. In 2023, Peter graduated from the University with a degree in accountancy and finance and was subsequently elected President of the Edinburgh University Sports Union for a one-year term.
He wrote the cookbooks Peter Bakes and Peter's Baking Party.

Laura Adlington

Laura Adlington, one of runners-up of the eleventh series, was a digital manager at the time of the competition. Due to her bakes throughout the series judged as often flavourful but poorly constructed and presented, her placement in the finals was widely criticised by viewers. Laura suffered from cyberbullying via social media. Judges Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith expressed support for Adlington. Via Instagram, Hollywood criticised the cyberbullying as "disgusting behaviour".
In May 2021, Adlington announced her extended interests in plus-size clothing, planning to show that such clothing is more than just "black and baggy" but rather "glamorous" and "nice".