Bake Off 2019 contestants – who are the finalists?
THE Great British Bake Off 2019 final is TONIGHT and the last three bakers will go head-to-head one last time to win the competition.
Here are the talented bakers that are still taking part in the popular contest - plus the unlucky participants who've been given the boot...
Who is in the The Great British Bake Off final?
The show started with 13 contestants in the line-up - but only three have made it to the final.
Steph Blackwell
Steph is a 28-year-old shop assistant, who got into baking thanks to her granddad, who loves homemade bread.
The Chester-native is self-taught and considers herself an "intermediate, still-learning" baker and her passion for sports and wellness inspires her creations.
She likes challenging herself by making her bakes healthier, adding vegetables or fruits, lowering the refined sugar content and prioritising more nutritional fats.
David Atherton
David was brought up in Yorkshire, where his mother, who was an avid baker, inspired him to take up baking.
The 36-year-old continued to explore his pastries making abilities when he travelled to Malawi, among other places, as part of his work as a health adviser.
Alice Fevronia
Alice, 28, is a geography teacher from London.
At just 15, while recovering from a back operation for scoliosis and no longer able to do sport, she turned her hand to baking.
Who has been eliminated from Bake Off so far?
Here's who's left the competition so far.
Rosie Brandreth-Poynter
Rosie, 28, is a vet from Somerset.
When she is not performing surgery or on call, she bakes to unwind and treats the practice nurses with some of her creations.
Her go-to bake is patisserie and her baking is inspired by her rural surroundings, from the orchards next door, to the fresh eggs laid by her ducks and chickens.
Henry Bird
Henry, 20, is a student from Durham.
He has loved baking since the age of 12, when the Bake Off tent pitched up in his local park.
The Bake Off contestant tested his creations on his family, friends and teachers growing up but now brings his experiments to students at Durham University.
Michael Chakraverty
Michael, 26, is a theatre manager and fitness instructor from Stratford-upon-Avon.
He was taught to bake by his mother.
She gave him handwritten recipes passed down from his great-grandparents, to encourage him to take up the skill.
Priya O'Shea - OUT
Priya, 34, is a marketing consultant from Leicester.
She first experienced baking with an after-school baking club at primary school.
A decade ago she began baking more seriously as a way of helping her relax and went “baking bonkers” when she was gifted a stand mixer on her wedding day.
Helena Garcia - OUT
Helena, 40, is an online project manager from Leeds.
She spent much of her childhood watching her Spanish grandmother cook and bake.
However, it was not until she moved to Las Vegas as part of an exchange scheme at school that she started baking.
Michelle Evans-Fecci - OUT
Michelle, 35, is a print shop administrator from Wales.
She was brought up on a farm but now lives in the seaside town of Tenby with her husband and teenage son.
The mother-of-one bakes almost every other day and likes to experiment with flavour combinations, using seasonal vegetables from her own veggie patch.
Phil Thorne - OUT
Phil, 56, is an HGV driver from Essex.
The driver, who grew up in Barking, first got a taste for baking during his home economics class at school.
Now he lives in Rainham with his wife and two daughters and treats his family and friends to some of his bakes.
Amelia Le Bruin - OUT
Amelia, 24, is a fashion designer from Halifax.
She has been baking for 19 years.
Watching her mum and grandma creating beautiful cake decorations inspired her to start baking as a child.
Jamie Finn - OUT
Jamie, 20, is a waiter from Surrey.
He was taught to bake by his grandma and parents, but it was after he watched an episode of The Great British Bake Off, that he was inspired to take up baking.
Sadly, he didn't make it past the second week after failing to impress during Biscuit Week.
Dan Chambers - OUT
Dan, 32, is a support worker from Rotherham.
He is predominantly a self-taught baker, but has fond memories of his mum showing him how to bake a Victoria sponge as a child and his army chef dad coming to school to teach how to plait and bake bread.
Dan got serious about baking at age 21 in a bid to impress his then girlfriend (now wife) with a themed birthday cake.
Unfortunately he lost his place in week one of the competition.
Who are The Great British Bake Off 2019 judges and presenters?
Well, Bake Off wouldn't be Bake Off without judge Paul Hollywood.
Paul has been on the show since it started, and stuck with it when the programme moved from the BBC to Channel 4.
Also, let's not forget Prue Leith who will be back for another series after becoming an instant hit with viewers when she replaced Mary Berry.
And last, but by no means least, Noel Fielding and Sandi Toksvig will reprise their roles as hosts of the popular TV programme.
The 2019 series airs every Tuesday at 8pm on Channel 4.
What is the Great British Bake Off prize?
With all the drama, sweat and tears that the dedicated bakers go through, you would 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, at least that's what has happened so far.
Previous Bake Off contestant Martha Collison, who reached the quarter-finals in the 2014 series, confirmed to 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.”
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Who won The Great British Bake Off 2018?
Research scientist Rahul Mandal, 32, was the 2018 Bake Off winner.
He overcame two disasters - an icing explosion and a shattered mixing bowl - in the final to win the show.
After winning the show Rahul was signed as a columnist for The Times Magazine, as part of their Saturday supplement.
You can also find him regularly cooking on This Morning.
In 2018, Rahul also became a Stem (Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) ambassador to "help inspire the next generation of engineers".