What does the Bake Off winner get and are contestants paid for taking part?
THE Great British Bake Off has been thrilling fans for well over a decade now.
Over the course of ten weeks a dozen amateur bakers will eventually be narrowed down to just one who will then be crowned winner.
What is the Great British Bake Off final prize money?
With all the drama, sweat and tears that the dedicated bakers go through on The Great British Bake Off, you’d expect they would be aiming for some grand cash prize, but the answer is no.
The winning prize is just flowers and a cake stand.
Previous Bake Off contestant Martha Collison, who reached the quarter-finals in the 2014 series, told Barrelhouse: “Everyone is so surprised and thinks there must be some secret cash, but all we really get is a bunch of flowers and a cake stand.
“But then, you also kind of become a national treasure just by doing it because everyone in Britain loves the Bake Off so much.”
What else does the Bake Off winner get?
Besides the flowers and cake stand, many of the Bake Off stars go on to earn massive sums of money through appearances, cookbooks and launching cooking schools.
Nadiya Hussain is undoubtedly the Bake Off’s greatest success story, and has since written various newspaper columns, fronted TV show The Chronicles Of Nadiya, released a best-selling cookbook and has been a guest presenter on Loose Women.
She was also selected to bake the late Queen Elizabeth's birthday cake when the monarch turned 90 in April 2016.
Series 12 winner Giuseppe Dell'Anno announced the release of his first cookbook in May 2022.
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Dell'Anno managed to beat the competition to take home the 2021 trophy, and the book marks one of the baker's first ventures since being crowned the champion of the Channel 4 series.
When is The Great British Bake Off on Channel 4?
The Great British Bake Off airs on Tuesday nights on Channel 4 at 8pm.
Season 14 has ten episodes, with the final airing on November 28, 2023.
You can catch up with past episodes of the show on the Channel 4 website.
For Bake Off 2023 the judges have remained the same, with Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith making the decisions as to who gets Star Baker and who leaves the tent each week.
There has though been a shake up of presenters after Matt Lucas quit the series.
However, popular presenter Noel Fielding is back to host the famous show, but he has a new co-host by his side - Alison Hammond.
Speaking about landing the plum Bake Off job, and how different it is to hosing This Morning, she told Channel 4: “It’s like being on holiday — it’s wonderful, free, and you feel safe.
“You don’t have to think politically about anything. It’s just a happy and safe show.”