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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Genevieve Fox

‘The world has to watch out for me’: Bake Off star Sandro Farmhouse

Sandro Farmhouse holding a glass bowl of melted chocolate in one hand and a whisk, high above it, with melted chocolate dripping from it into the bowl, with the other, and smiling
‘You have to ignore the noise, you have to focus’: Sandro Farmhouse. Photograph: Sandro Farmhouse 2023/Markus Bidaux

Celebrity cake maker and influencer Sandro Farmhouse, or Sandro as he is known to his fans, first won the nation’s hearts when he took part in the 2022 Great British Bake Off, and became an instant culinary pin-up. A former nanny and community worker for children with autism and special needs, he raised the heat in the tent with his bench-press physique, affable banter and huge smile.

As a finalist, he lost the Bake Off crown to Syabira Yusoff, but being on the show brought him the social media profile and financial security he had worked so hard to pull off. The fact that he was rejected the first time he applied to Bake Off, dug deep and re-applied is a mark of the tenacity and determination at work behind his model good looks and feelgood social media posts.

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