Line Up Revealed for The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer 2022

4 February 2022

19 celebrities – and one presenter – compete for the coveted Star Baker apron

 

A new batch of famous faces will enter the Bake Off tent this spring in aid of Stand Up To Cancer as The Great Celebrity Bake Off returns to Channel 4.

 

Each celebrity baker will compete in three rounds – the signature, technical and showstopper challenges, all hoping to impress Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith with their brilliant bakes and culinary creations. Four famous bakers will go head to head in each of the five episodes but at the end of each show, only one can be decorated with the title Star Baker.

 

The stars switching on their mixers to raise some life-saving dough for cancer research are: comedian and creator of Taskmaster Alex Horne;  Annie Macmanus, otherwise known as international broadcaster Annie Mac; actor and children's author Ben Miller; actor Blake Harrison;  broadcaster Clara Amfo; award-winning comedian and podcaster Ed Gamble; singer-songwriter and UN ENvironment Ambassador Ellie Goulding; TV presenter Emma Willis; singer-songwriter Example; choirmaster and broadcaster Gareth Malone; actress Katherine Kelly; TV presenter Laura Whitmore; actor, writer and comedian Mawaan Rizwan; Olympic champion Sir Mo Farah; judge, presenter and dancer Motsi Mabuse; comedian, writer and TV presenter Ruby Wax; TV presenter Sophie Morgan; actress Tracy-Ann Oberman, and comedian and musician Yung Filly.

 

 

In a surprise twist, one episode will find Matt Lucas  swapping sides of the Bake Off banks. Filling in for a missing baker he finds out what it’s really like to bake under the scrutiny of his fellow presenter Noel Fielding.

 

Matt 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.”

Today, February 4th, is World Cancer Day, a day that unites people around the world to take action against cancer. Stand Up To Cancer is a joint national fundraising campaign from Cancer Research UK and Channel 4 to accelerate ground-breaking cancer research and save more lives, more quickly. Today marks 20 years since Cancer Research UK was formed.

 

For more information on how you can get involved in The Great Stand Up To Cancer Bake Off fundraising challenge visit channel4.com/SU2C

 

The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer airs later this spring.

 

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Notes to editors

About Stand Up To Cancer (UK) 

• Stand Up To Cancer is a joint national fundraising campaign from Cancer Research UK and Channel 4 that brings the UK together to speed up progress in life-saving cancer research
• Launched in the UK in 2012, Stand Up To Cancer funds translational research, turning academic breakthroughs in the labs into new treatments that make a real difference for people with cancer
• Over £93 million has been raised in the UK to date, funding 59 clinical trials and projects involving 19,000 cancer patients across the country
• Research projects include the development of pioneering technology to detect super low levels of cancerous DNA in blood to improve the way we diagnose ovarian cancer, developing a new immunotherapy drug to boost the power of the immune system against cancer, exploring an entirely new approach to treating bowel cancer, and much more
• Stars such as Naomi Campbell, Noel Gallagher, Tom Hardy, Gillian Anderson, Idris Elba, Andy Murray, James Corden, Martin Freeman, Jamie Oliver, Richard Ayoade, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Peter Crouch, Abbey Clancy, Danny Dyer, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson, Lily James, Rosamund Pike, Sophie Turner, Stephen Graham, Toby Jones, Maya Jama, Joe Lycett and Roman Kemp are just some of the talent who have supported Stand Up To Cancer  
• To find out more about fundraising activities visit channel4.co.uk/SU2C or follow us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram