The Great British Bake Off is just hours away from starting on Channel 4 but has been flying under the radar – so let us fill you in on 2024’s cohort of bakers. The beloved baking show has become a staple in the UK and each year fans enjoy week after week of naughty innuendos, soggy bottoms, and ridiculously difficult challenges.

New series of Channel 4's Great British Bake Off begins with series of firsts as contestant leaves before show is finished and other baker gets high praise

It's the time of the year Great British Bake Off fans have been waiting for as the hit show is back. And the new series of the hit Channel 4 competition will begin with a host of firsts.

As Bake Off returns for a new season, read on for everything you need to know about one of this year's contestants, Gill. Gill is a 53-year-old senior category manager from Lancashire, who is convinced her love of precision data and inherent creativity are the perfect match for successful baking.

Family lies not only at the centre of Andy’s world but also of his baking and it was as a child, baking alongside his mum, that Andy first learned the much-loved family staples: apple crumble to follow a Sunday roast and Bakewell tarts made using pastry offcuts (to make sure nothing went to waste) among them.

As The Great British Bake Off returns to our screens on Channel 4, find out who the most successful contestants are.

Dylan is a 20-year-old retail assistant from Buckinghamshire, who loves to travel and recently took a gap year travelling through Southeast Asia, exploring the different cuisines and meeting new people.

My favorite “brain comfort food,” providing a much-needed break from politics, is back and I can’t wait! “The Great British Baking Show” will start airing its 15th season, with a dozen of Great Britain’s best amateur bakers competing in the famous white tent.

The Great British Bake Off Channel 4, 8pm Fifteen seasons, multiple judges and a new home channel later, and still the baking juggernaut rolls on in a flurry of icing sugar, sabotaged ice-cream, twee Union Jack bunting and plentiful yeast-related disasters.

The winner of The Great British Bake Off 2024 will receive two prizes - a cake stand and a bouquet of flowers.