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 The [Great British Bake Off series 8|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 The Great [British Bake Off series 9|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".

Dave Friday

Dave Friday, one of runners-up of the eleventh series, was a security guard at the time of the competition. Dave has a son born in 2020 to his fiancée, to whom he proposed in that same year in An Extra Slice.

Series 12 (2021)

Baker	Age	Occupation	Hometown	Star Baker	Result
Giuseppe Dell'Anno	45	Chief engineer	Bristol	2
Chigs Parmar	40	Sales manager	Leicester	2
Crystelle Pereira	26	Client relationship manager	London	2

Giuseppe Dell'Anno (winner)

Giuseppe Dell'Anno, the winner of the twelfth series, was a chief engineer from Bristol and an industrial fellow of the University of Bristol at the time of the competition. He studied chemical engineering in the University of Pisa. He and his wife moved to the United Kingdom in 2002 and have lived there since.
Dell'Anno won Star Baker twice. Throughout the competition, his bakes were Italian-inspired. He became the first Italian to win the competition after presenting his Mad Hatter's Tea Party Showstopper, "What Is the Hatter with Me", featuring a brioche resembling a mushroom, panna cottas, heart-shaped muffins, and an asparagus and peas caterpillar-shaped choux. He also made a guest appearance on the fifth episode of the 2022 season of . From that same year 2022 onward, he also wrote his regular column "Britalian Bake-Off Review" column for the Radio Times, recapping episodes of Bake Off.
Dell'Anno's father was a professional chef and has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Giuseppe is still married to his wife with three sons.
Giuseppe has written the following cookbooks: Giuseppe's Italian Bakes, which includes recipes based on his father's lifetime notes; and Giuseppe's Easy Bakes.

Chigs Parmar

Will Chirag Parmar, nicknamed "Chigs", one of runners-up of the twelfth series, was a sales manager from Leicestershire at the time of the competition. Parmar started baking in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. He won Star Baker twice. He has one sister.
Parmar returned for the 2023 Bake Off New Year special, competing against Lottie Bedlow and two other contestants of series nine—Antony Amourdoux and Manon Lagrève. Parmar lost to its winner Lagrève.

Crystelle Pereira

Crystelle Pereira, one of runners-up of the twelfth series, was a client relationship manager from London at the time of the competition. Pereira is of a Portuguese and Goan descent. Her Portuguese-Goan parents were born in Kenya. She won Star Baker twice.

Series 13 (2022)

Baker	Age	Occupation	Hometown	Star Baker	Result
Syabira Yusoff	32	Cardiovascular research associate	London	3
Nelsandro "Sandro" Farmhouse	30	Nanny	London	1
Abdul Rehman Sharif	29	Electronics engineer	London	1

Abdul and another contestant this series was absent on the third week, leading the judges to decide not to eliminate anyone in their absence.

Syabira Yusoff (winner)

Syabira Yusoff was a London cardiovascular research associate of King's College London since 2019 at the time of competition. Yusoff was born in Malaysia, where she earned her bachelor's degree in agricultural science. Then she immigrated to the United Kingdom in 2013 to study genetics and bioinformatics for her Doctor of Philosophy degree.
Yusoff started baking in 2017 and has reinvented British classic bakes with Malaysian flavours. She won the Star Baker award three consecutive times in the thirteenth series. Yusoff was crowned the 2022 winner and became the first Malaysian-born Bake Off winner after delivering her own "Summer Picnic" signature bake—pork-less pie alternative, heart-shaped tea sandwiches served "with broad bean and sauce verde", and Swiss rolls infused with elderflower—and her planet-themed Showstopper bake "This Is My Home".

Sandro Farmhouse

Nelsandro "Sandro" Farmhouse, one of runners-up of the thirteenth series, was a London nanny at the time of competition. Farmhouse was born in Angola. At age two, he and his mother escaped from the Angolan Civil War in early 1990s. His interest in baking rose after his father died in early 2010s when Farmhouse was twenty-one years old. He has run virtual baking lessons for autistic children. He only won the Star Baker award once: in the fifth week of the thirteenth series.

Abdul Rehman Sharif

Abdul Rehman Sharif, one of runners-up of the thirteenth series, was a London electronics engineer at the time of competition. Born to his Pakistani parents, Sharif grew up in Saudi Arabia. He gained an interest in baking when he and his graduate colleagues exchanged their bakes during their coffee breaks. He studied engineering and mathematics during his academic years and later applied what he learned to his bakes. He won the Star Baker award only in the semifinal week of the thirteenth series.

Series 14 (2023)

Baker	Age	Occupation	Hometown	Star Baker	Result
Matty Edgell	28	Teacher	Cambridgeshire	2
Dan Hunter	42	Resource planner	Cheshire	2
Josh Smalley	27	Research associate	Leicestershire	2

Matty Edgell (winner)

Matty Edgell was a 28-year-old science and physical education teacher of Hampton College, Peterborough, when first competed in Bake Off. His partner Lara applied to the competition on his behalf after he won a school baking contest in 2019. He was crowned winner of the fourteenth series of Bake Off.
Edgell and Lara became engaged in 2022 after eight years of the relationship.

Dan Hunter

Dan Hunter, a married father of two sons, works in a civil engineering field and was one of runners-up of the fourteenth Bake Off series at age 42.

Josh Smalley

Josh Smalley, a University of Leicester alumni and chemistry researcher, was one of runners-up of the fourteenth series who was awarded Star Baker twice. Smalley earned his undergraduate degree, Master of Chemistry degree in pharmaceutical chemistry, and PhD degree in chemical biology from the same university.

Series 15 (2024)

Baker	Age	Occupation	Hometown	Star Baker	Result
Georgie Grasso	34	Paediatric nurse	Carmarthenshire	2
Christiaan de Vries	33	Menswear designer	London	1
Dylan Bachelet	20	Retail assistant	Buckinghamshire	2

Georgie Grasso (winner)

Georgie Grasso, aged 34 at time of competition, is a nurse from Carmarthen and of Italian descent. She lives on a farm with her husband their three children. She is revealed to have been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder before the fifteenth series aired. Grasso became the series's crowned winner and was also The Great British Bake Off's first Welsh winner.

Christiaan de Vries

Christiaan de Vries, aged 33 at the time of competition, was born in the Netherlands. He studied fashion in Amsterdam and then immigrated to the United Kingdom in 2017. de Vries became one of the runners-up of the fifteenth series.

Dylan Bachelet

Dylan Bachelet, aged 20 at time of competition, worked as a retail assistant. He became one of the runners-up of the fifteenth series. Bachelet's recipes, includings ones seen in the series, have been inspired by Japanese- and French-style bakes. After Bake Off, he became a chef de partie at the Michelin-starred Five Fields in Chelsea, London. Five Fields eventually closed permanently on 28 February 2025.
Born to his Indian mother and Japanese-Belgian father, Bachelet attended Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School. He achieved four A's at A-level and started a degree in biomedical engineering before dropping out to pursue a culinary career. Bachelet trained at Raymond Blanc's two Michelin starred Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons|Le Manoir] in Oxfordshire.

Series 16 (2025)

Baker	Age	Occupation	Hometown	Star Baker	Result
Jasmine Mitchell	23	Medical student	Edinburgh	5
Aaron Mountford-Myles	38	Senior systems architect	Stoke-on-Trent	1
Thomas 'Tom' Arden	31	Creative Entrepreneur	London	1