We take a look at the Scottish competition of the country’s favorite pastry exhibition and where they are lately.
Bake Off is back and more than ever because many screens have been canceled in recent months.
The Scottish competition has been decorating the tent with its presence since the first round, unfortunately we haven’t been represented every year, however, that doesn’t mean our ambassadors at the world pastry haven’t done wonderful things.
Here we take a look at the Bake-Off beyond the former Scottish applicants and find out what they are doing now.
Lea Harris of Midlothian, Bake Off’s first Scottish contestant after appearing in the first season.
Lea left the series at the end of the first episode, Cake Week, after preparing a chocolate cake for the spectacular challenge filled with chocolate and new chocolate-dipped fruit.
But despite his early departure, he continued to create a hit blog called Off The Eaten Track and won the Hospitality Honor Award in 2018 at the Scottish Food Awards.
She’s being tweeted @BakersBunny.
– Read Harris (@BakersBunny) May 22, 2018
Season five gave us the joy of Norman Calder from Portknockie to Moray.
Norman unfortunately took off in episode five, the week after the notorious saga of the competition iced cake Diana and Iain, in which the former got rid of the cake from the moment of the freezer to make way for his own.
Norman wrote for the press and newspaper in 2016 and when asked if he had any recommendations for this year’s bakers, he replied, “The only recommendation I would give is not to take it too seriously and not to. “Let the manufacturers kill you!
The retired Merchant Navy officer plans to spend more time when he can on his brother’s yacht in Portugal and sent this to us from himself.
#BringBackNorman
The sixth series gave us one, but two Scottish competitors, either from Perthshire: Flora Shedden and Marie Campbell.
Flora Shedden, an assistant at Dunkeld’s 19-year-old art gallery, was lost at the end of a week, when she first entered the Bake Off store.
After his victory, he studied art history at st Andrews University, an e-book called Gatherings in 2017 and wrote a pastry column for The Scotsman.
She owns and runs the ARAN bakery in Dunkeld, a craft bakery in highland Perthshire. His book of moments, ARAN, came out in 2019. He also recently opened a food and flower shop, also in Dunkeld, called LON.
Flora is on social media, Instagram, Twitter and on her website.
Marie Campbell of Auchterarder, the first Star Baker in the series, suffered a drastic drop in embarrassment when she retired last week.
Her appearance on the screen caused a sensation as it was reported to be a semi-professional baker, meaning that her appearance as an approved baker would be contrary to the rules of the screen. The BBC later published a report in which Marie had spent a week. a pastry course at the Ritz in Paris, from which he had received a certificate in 1984.
After her removal from the show, Marie opened a bakery, according to her daughter Catriona Campbell in a previous blog post this year. Marie is regularly provided on Twitter.
Edinburgh architect Tom Hetherington would possibly have been removed in the fourth week of Series 8 in 2017, but returned to the tent for the show’s Christmas special in 2019.
During his time on the original show, Tom inspired the judges Cookie Week (episode 2) and was one of his favorite bakers that week, although he received no praise for the “star baker”.
Another architect in practice, Tom makes traditional party cakes for weddings, anniversaries and events. He is also a professor of design at the University of Dundee and captain of rugby.
It can be discovered on your Tom Eats Cake website and on Instagram and Twitter.
Although he was born in Stratford-Upon-Avon, Michael from season 10 in 2019 is almost Scottish as he studied in Scone, Perthshire and worked at the Edinburgh Theater Circuit for a time before Bake Off so we follow him as our own.
During his time on the show, he was the first contestant in the series to get a “Hollywood Handshake” for his cup of chai cake.
Michael now writes for the Huffington Post, the “newspaper i” and the Metro.
In one of his articles, he has some sensible words for this year’s bakers: “My recommendation would be to stick together. “
It’s on Twitter and Instagram.
And our 2020 representative is . . . Peter Sawkins of Edinburgh. At the time of writing, Peter is a competitor to this year’s Bake Off and even won the Star Baker Award in the first week.
Although you can’t reveal anything while the screen is still streaming (spoiler: it’s not live), you have an Instagram account that updates regularly.
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