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Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer 2022 line-up revealed: From Emma Willis and Laura Whitmore to Ellie Goulding and Sir Mo Farah
Ready, set, bake! (Picture: PA)
The line-up for this year’s The Great Celebrity Bake Off Stand Up To Cancer has been revealed, and it might just make your dreams crumb true!
Each year, The Great Celebrity Stand Up To Cancer sees a host of celebrity bakers head to the tent, in an attempt to raise some money and cause some chaos in the kitchen.
This year’s crop of 19 celebrities includes Sir Mo Farah, singer Ellie Goulding and Strictly Come Dancing judge Motsi Mabuse.
Other names to have been revealed also include comedian and creator of Taskmaster Alex Horne, TV presenter Emma Willis, singer-songwriter Example and choirmaster Gareth Malone.
Also hoping to impress the judges are radio DJ Annie Mac, actor and author Ben Miller, The Inbetweeners star Blake Harrison, and TV and radio presenter Clara Amfo.
Former Coronation Street actress Katherine Kelly, TV presenter Laura Whitmore, comedian Ed Gamble, writer and comedian Mawaan Rizwan, TV star Ruby Wax, TV presenter Sophie Morgan, Friday Night Dinner’s Tracy-Ann Oberman and musician Yung Filly complete the line-up.
Laura Whitmore is taking part in the competition (Picture: PA)
Yung Filly will compete (Photo: PA)
Clara Amfo will appear on this year’s Celebrity Bake Off Against Cancer (Picture: PA)
In each episode celebrities will battle it out over three rounds – the Signature, the Technical and the Showstopper challenge – in a bid to be crowned Star Baker and impress judges Paul Hollywood and Dame Prue Leith.
Matt Lucas will switch positions to a baker in the tent this year (Picture: PA)
Ruby Wax will also make an appearance on the show (Picture: PA)
The upcoming series will see the Matt switching from presenter to baker in an episode when he fills in for a missing baker.
He said: ‘I was forced to bake by my bosses at the last minute when one of the bakers became unavailable.
‘I can’t tell you how happy I was that my humiliation was caught on camera.’
The programme, which also sees Noel Fielding hosting, is slated to air later this spring.
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Little Mix’s Jade Thirlwall and comedian Reece Shearsmith were among the stars who were crowned Star Baker last year in the charity series.
Stand Up To Cancer, launched in 2012, is a joint national fundraising campaign from Cancer Research UK and Channel 4.
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