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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Babatunde Alesha signs up for Great Celebrity Bake Off
Babatunde Aleshe has signed up for 'The Great Celebrity Bake Off'. The 38-year-old comic will be taking his place in the tent for the Stand Up To Cancer special, with programme bosses hoping he will bring his "pure positivity" and "infectious" energy to the show. A source told The Sun newspaper's TVBiz column: "Babatunde is guaranteed to be hilarious and will no doubt have plenty of banter with Paul, Noel, Caroline and Alison. "He's not known for his prowess in the kitchen so there's sure to be some panicky moments laced with the good humour he's known for. "His energy on the 'Gogglebox' sofa has always been pure positivity and very infectious, and bosses are hoping he'll bring that to the tent." The news comes a few days after it was revealed 'Love Island' star Molly-Mae Hague will also be taking part in the charity baking competition. A source said: "She will be a great addition to the line-up and bring a healthy helping of Love island glamour to the tent. "Molly's now one of Britain's biggest TV stars and has seen her fame steadily grow since she first appeared on the ITV dating show back in 2019." And fresh from her stint on 'Celebrity Big Brother', JoJo Siwa is also said to have signed up for 'The Great Celebrity Bake Off', with producers said to be particularly pleased because of the interest in the dancer and her relationship with Chris Hughes. An insider said: "This is a bit of a coup for the 'Bake Off' because JoJo is currently one of the most talked about young stars on TV right now. "She's barely had time to catch her breath, leaving 'CBB' last month amid huge media attention and heading straight into another huge show this month. "It's also a fantastic gig for her because although she already has a fanbase over here, the cookery contest also introduces her to a wider British audience. "Plus she got plenty of experience of cooking in front of the cameras while she was on 'Celebrity Big Brother', though this time she won't have hunky Chris to distract her." The show will see Noel Fielding and Alison Hammond returning as hosts, but long-serving judge Paul Hollywood will be joined by Caroline Waldegrave after Prue Leith decided to step back from all 'GBBO' specials.


Wales Online
04-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Wales Online
Gabby Logan's life off-screen from family tragedy to rugby player husband's cancer battle
Gabby Logan's life off-screen from family tragedy to rugby player husband's cancer battle Gabby Logan has been a regular on our TV screens for years now, but what do we know about the presenter away from the cameras? Gabby Logan wins star baker on The Great Celebrity Bake Off Gabby Logan boasts an incredible career, having become a regular face on our TV screens over the years. She's presented coverage of some of the biggest sporting events, such as the FIFA World Cup, the Olympic Games, the Great North Run, and the UEFA Euros. Away from sports, Gabby has presented shows such as Splash! and Flockstars while also appearing on several programmes herself, including Would I Lie To You? and The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up to Cancer, which will be shown on Channel 4 on Sunday (4 May). Alongside her busy work schedule in TV and radio, Gabby is also a mum to twins Reuben and Lois with her husband, Kenny Logan. Gabby boasts an incredible career Who is Gabby's husband? Kenny is a former Scottish international rugby union player. The 53-year-old played for Glasgow Warriors and Wasps RSC and represented Scotland internationally. Article continues below Kenny met Gabby while on a night out in Fulham. The former rugby ace admitted he was "dumbstruck" and "incredibly excited" when he got to know the sports presenter. Kenny proposed seven months later, and the couple married in a lavish ceremony in July 2000. In 2005, they became proud parents to Reuben and Lois, and the family of four now resides in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. What has Gabby said about her marriage? Gabby has previously given an insight into her and Kenny's marriage, revealing how they tackle conflict and ensure they regularly check in with one another. "Sometimes there's going to be a player who needs picking up, and other times they're the star of the game, and it's someone else who needs the boost. With a marriage, it's the same: you're never walking along the same bit of road at the same time. "We also never stop working at it. It isn't something you can just leave to be and hope it's all right in 15 years. It needs a bit of assessment," she previously told Good Housekeeping Magazine. Gabby and husband Kenny Logan (Image:) Kenny's cancer battle Back in 2022, Gabby encouraged her husband to undergo a Well Man health check, which unexpectedly revealed that he was in the very early stages of prostate cancer. It was recommended that Kenny have his entire prostate removed to prevent the cancer from spreading further, so he underwent the operation, which was successful. Kenny shared his diagnosis on BBC Breakfast at the time, opening up about the shock of being told he had cancer after experiencing "no symptoms". 'I got a wellness check and sat down with the guy, and he said, 'everything's fine, but your prostate is high'. I got checked and within three or four months I had a biopsy,' Kenny explained on the show. 'This year, in February, I was diagnosed with prostate cancer, which was a huge shock. I decided to get it taken out, and I'm probably 95% back to normal. When you're told you've got cancer, I literally fell over. I didn't see it coming, no symptoms whatsoever. I had to go looking for it." Gabby's family tragedy Alongside speaking openly about her marriage, Gabby has also opened up about her experience with grief following the tragic loss of her brother Daniel. He died in 1992 when he was only 15 years old from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Article continues below Gabby, who was 19 when her sibling passed, has spoken about how the first anniversary of his death came while she was prepping for exams at university, and she began to struggle with her grief. Eventually, she decided to go for counselling. "I was running around running from my grief, probably, and then by the end of my first year at university, so just around the time of his first anniversary, I had some first year exams and it all kind of came crashing down," she said on the ainslie + ainslie Performance People podcast. The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up to Cancer airs on Sundays on Channel 4 at 8pm


Daily Record
27-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Record
Celebrity Bake Off's Rhod Gilbert opens up on the cancer side effects he is still struggling with
Comedian Rhod Gillbert, will return to screens this weekend for a repeat special of the The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up to Cancer after his own tough battle with the disease. The Welsh comic, 56, was previously diagnosed with stage 4 head and neck cancer in June 2022 and underwent extensive chemotherapy and radiotherapy to fight off his illness. Rhod bravely documented his experience with cancer in a special film for Channel 4 in 2023 and received his all clear diagnosis that same year in October. The funny man previously spoke of his new lease of life after returning to his good health, telling the BBC that everything felt a lot more 'sweeter' and 'important' as he returned to touring post recovery. Despite this, he recently revealed that he has been left with issues as a result of his cancer in his neck, throat and mouth and also sometimes struggles to fully taste things. In an interview with the Mirror, he opened up the lifestyle changes he has made: "I've tried to cut down on booze, I gave up smoking, but years ago I gave up smoking anyway." He added: "I guess I'm a bit more conscious now than what I was, but equally, cancer leaves you in this weird place where you want to grab life by the short and curlies." Explaining a frustrating side effect of the condition, Rhod said while treatment has allowed him to swallow properly again, it has changed the way he tastes beverages. He said: "Everything tastes disgusting, even water, even a cup of tea. I'm still left with some problems, so tea still tastes a bit odd, lots of things taste weird still. "My taste is almost, sort of 80 per cent back to normal, my swallowing is pretty good, but at the time, you can't swallow and everything tastes disgusting." The comic said that food is also "horrible" as he explained that during his treatment he was fed by a machine straight into his stomach due to swallowing being "too painful". Despite this, Rhod has expressed how grateful he is to be in better health again, saying that he mostly feels "great" and is "happy" to be touring again. He previously said: "I can't believe really quite how well I feel, I've got problems in my neck, throat area and my mouth area, but other than that, I feel great." That's not Rhod's only personal experience with cancer as a few months after his all clear, he received the devastating news about the deaths of his friend's father and his close pal, both of whom sadly lost their battles with cancer. Rhod will be back on Channel 4 this weekend alongside Danny Dyer, Leigh Francis and Yinka Bokinni on a repeat episode of the Stand Up To Cancer charity special which first aired in March last year. During the episode, he reveals how "lucky" he feels to be there. He adds: "For me, It's really really emotional to be here. "There was a point where I didn't really know what the future held. Just to be here, to be anywhere, is pretty good." The 2025 series of Celebrity Bake Up Stand Up To Cancer came to an end earlier this month after another five episodes filled with famous faces and fabulous baking creations. The final episode of this year saw Gloria Hunniford, Ellie Goldstein, Jamali Maddix and Jim Howick all go head to head. All episodes of the show can be found on the Channel 4 app with eight seasons having aired to date.


The Independent
15-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Why Gloria Hunniford was forced to quit Celebrity Bake Off
TV presenter Gloria Hunniford has opened up about her withdrawal from The Great Celebrity Bake Off, saying she had to leave after a 'terrible' fall that required hospitalisation. The incident occurred backstage before the "Showstopper" round, filmed last summer. Hunniford said missing the final round was a 'real shame', having prepared a family-inspired cake recipe. Despite the incident, judge Paul Hollywood offered positive feedback on Hunniford's unfinished creation, saying she had executed the concept 'really well'. Hunniford confirmed her recovery on Instagram, emphasising her support for Stand Up to Cancer, the charity for which this season of Celebrity Bake Off is raising funds.


The Guardian
06-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Orange Juice? Keir Starmer is on the Kool-Aid
On 1 April, the TV comedian John Richardsons, who you will have seen on many panel shows, announced he was becoming a teacher, having already completed the training in secret. I was humbled by Richardsons's decision to do something genuinely worthwhile and by his foolhardy bravery. How would he control a class of teenagers pre-armed with clips of him clowning around with Russell Brand on The Great Celebrity Bake Off? But it turned out Richardsons's story was merely an April fool prank. D'oh! The fact that the inspiring tale wasn't true left me deeply saddened, like the time I wept when my mum finally told me Father Christmas hadn't been eating the mince pies I'd made for him. I was 28 years old. Of course a multimillionaire comedian wouldn't quit comedy to become a teacher on a £31,650-a-year starting salary, you idiot! That would be ridiculous. Richardsons's April fool was a publicity stunt to promote his casting as a teacher in the soap opera Waterloo Road, where actors are paid more than teachers to pretend to be teachers. But perhaps Richardsons should change career. And perhaps, despite being 'the world's greatest living standup' (the Times), so should I. We should all do the right thing and comedians have crowd-management skills that transfer well to the classroom. 'I remember when I had my first Prime energy drink, Jenkins! I'm here all week!! Try the fish!!!' Teachers inspire kids and thus change the world for the better. But nobody ever went on to change the world after watching 8 Out of 10 Cats. And wouldn't it have been great, for once, to see someone successful walk away from their wealth to help humanity? It shouldn't always have to be Michael Sheen putting himself out, again and again and again, his beard all wet with Welsh rain. Like most north London champagne socialists, I am increasingly disappointed, for example, by the endless wrong choices of Keir Starmer, who I voted for hoping he would allow me to pay lip service to progressive values while making minimal negative impact on my own standard of living and hoarded assets. That went well. Having been handed a blank cheque by a disillusioned electorate, Starmer has instead just drawn a fat ejaculating penis on it and left it on the worktop by the waste caddy to get smeared with old stinky food. Donald Trump says he is imposing tariffs because other nations have been 'raping' the US for years, and it's bold to use that verb as a metaphor for financial exploitation when you, and many of your houseguests and cheerleaders, have been accused of rape: Mike Tyson, Brand, Conor McGregor and Andrew Tate. It's the worst series of Taskmaster ever. In return for our 10% lower-than-average Trump tariffs, Starmer offered tax breaks to US tech companies. Presumably, these tech companies are the same sort of tech companies Starmer was complaining about last week because they didn't regulate their hateful and false content? This false content includes Elon Musk-endorsed posts saying the 'incel' drama Adolescence, which Starmer is basing policy on, was originally a true story about a murderous black boy who was changed to a white boy because 'blah, blah, wokeness, blah, blah, blah'. And, by the way, that bit in inverted commas was an actual quote from Kemi Badenoch. When the US national security adviser, Michael Waltz, invited a journalist on to an insecure group chat, we learned that wanting to see Europe fail is essentially official American policy. Trump's US is our enemy. And Jeff Bezos's Amazon directly donates to Trump; former PayPal executives are embedded in Trump's government; Uber's chief executive, Dara Khosrowshahi, directly donates to Trump; Mark Zuckerberg's Meta gave Trump $1m; a senior executive at Peter Thiel's Palantir spyware company, into whose metaphorical Miami mansion Wes Streeting wants to move all our alluring NHS metadata, helped finance Trump's campaign; and Musk's Twitter, currently X, actively advances far-right talking points to destabilise European democracies and promote fascist candidates. They seem nice. Starmer is encouraging people who want to destroy our values to come and do it in our country at reduced tax rates, like a man putting on trousers made of meat and running towards a leopard. Even Ed Davey, the Evel Knievel of the centre left, says our moral responsibility is to join Canada and the EU in opposing this new dark US. But, with our gross domestic product and European alliances decimated by Brexit, we can't afford to take the moral high ground, which was of course the plan of its shadowy backers all along. Is our economic future merely as an airstrip full of low-taxed American servers generating AI memes of Trump dressed as a golden Disney king? People understand the peril we are in. I spent last weekend ecstatically inhabiting a small Welsh town at a multidisciplinary arts festival where punters and performers alike were preparing for possible US trips by deleting all their social media, fearing airport incarceration from Trump's thought police. But at least our Trump tariffs are 10% lower. What happened to youthful ideals? In March 2024, Starmer said he remembered being inspired by leaving his 'village for the city of Leeds' and discovering 'a whole new world of indie bands – like Orange Juice and the Wedding Present'. Did Malcolm Ross take his distinctive guitar work from Josef K to Orange Juice just so Starmer could sell us out to the new Nazis, like Neville Chamberlain waving a various-artists cassette that came free with a mid-80s NME? 'I have in my hand a copy of C86.' Perhaps, unlike the April fool John Richardsons, Starmer should become a teacher. We need more teachers. And if a big boy was bullying all the little kids and stealing their dinner money, Starmer's already shown he knows how to look the other way. Stewart Lee vs the Man-Wulf tours until spring 2026 with a Royal Festival Hall run in July