This Is What 'Bake Off's Winners Have Been Up To Since Their TV Triumph

After winning the first ever series of Bake Off in 2010, Edd Kimber published three cookbooks with the most recent being Say It With Cake in 2012. He also writes features for magazines, like olive magazine, BBC Good Food, delicious. magazine and Waitrose Kitchen.

At the moment, he's currently travelling across the globe and documents his trips on his blog. Here, he intends to help "plan and inspire" trips for his readers to the country's he's visited. Kimber posts his beautifully shot photography of his travels to Instagram.

You can follow Kimber on Instagram and Twitter.

Since Joanne Wheatley's win, she's set up a cookery school from her home in Essex, which was listed in The Guardian's Top Five UK Baking Schools. The baker currently runs a blog called Jo's Blue AGA, where you can find all her recipes and also restaurant and travel reviews.

After winning Bake Off, she published her first cookbook A Passion For Baking, followed by her second book Home Baking in 2014.

Wheatley was also a recipe columnist for Sainsbury's magazine between 2013 and 2014. She also contributes to The Sun, The Mirror, BBC Good Food Magazine, and Hello Magazine.

You can follow Wheatley on Instagram and Twitter.

John Whaite published his first cookbook Comfort: Food to Soothe the Soul in 2017, and recently this year opened up to how winning the third series Bake Off affected him mentally.

"Because of the next batch of Bake Off stars emerged, my appeal shrank," he told The Telegraph. "Year on year, the working days became fewer and financial offers were smaller. The life to which I had become accustomed slowly dissolved."

"Some days I'd wish I had never been on the show, because in reality, it totally derailed me from my steady lifepath".

He eventually found the strength to find himself again and re-emerge, and has since renovated a barn on his family farm and opened a cookery school. "I stopped caring about the 'celebrity' side of my career and focused more on the substantial part of it: the food writer and chef."

You can follow Whaite on Instagram and Twitter.

Since being crowned the series four Bake Off winner, Frances Quinn has gone on to bake "for the illustrator Quentin Blake, presenter Clare Balding, [...] and the Tate's Matisse Exhibition," as The Telegraph writes.

She also published her first cookbook in 2015, aptly titled Quinntesential Baking. Quinn continues to share her fantastic sketchbook recipes on her Instagram, where she mixes baking and design together to "produce unique and edible designs", as she writes on her blog.

You can follow Quinn on Instagram and Twitter.

Nancy Birtwhistle currently shares her "more than 500 recipes" alongside a plethora of kitchen tips on her website. She's visited food and cookery shows across the UK, and has taught "very small select groups" of people of all ages.

Birtwhistile has also written for the The Telegraph, and her first book Sizzle & Drizzle was published just last Friday (Oct. 25).

She's since become an avid user of Instagram, where she regularly takes questions from her followers and now considers herself as "a sort of Kitchen Agony Aunt."

You can follow Birtwhistle on Instagram and Twitter.

Out of all the Bake Off winners, Nadiya Hussain has had one hell of a busy career since leaving the tent. After releasing her first cookbook Nadiya's Kitchen in 2016, she has since gone on to publish three more cookbooks alongside two children's cookbooks, two fictional books, and a memoir. Two of her books were accompanied by a complementary series on the BBC.

Hussain has also presented two documentaries for the BBC. She discovered her family roots in 2016 for The Chronicles of Nadiya, and explored her mental health this year for Nadiya: Anxiety and Me.

She was also a host alongside Zoe Ball for the first series of The Big Family Cooking Showdown, and Hussain continues to write a weekly column for The Times.

You can follow Hussain on Instagram and Twitter.

After winning the seventh series of Bake Off, Candice Brown released a cookbook titled Comfort: Delicious Cakes & Family Treats. Since then, Brown now runs The Green Man Pub in Eversholt, Bedfordshire with her brother, according to the Mirror.

"I don't shy away from hard work, and I never wanted to just lend my name and then disappear," she told Hello magazine (via the Mirror). "Sometimes people do recognise me and look shocked when I deliver their puddings personally."

Brown occasionally cooks on ITV's This Morning, and was also a contestant on Dancing on Ice last yer but was the first to be eliminated.

You can follow Brown on Instagram and Twitter.

Sophie Faldo now runs her own business, Sophie Faldo Cakes, where she creates wedding cakes and desserts for special events. Her recipes have been featured in several publications, including The Telegraph, The Sunday Times, Radiot Times, and delicious. magazine.

She was also shortlisted for The Women of the Future Awards last year, and was given a special commendation in the Media category.

Faldo did have a cookbook in the works in 2018 titled Something Sweet, but she is reportedly reworking it after splitting from her management. Earlier this year, she appeared alongside Spanish food vlogger Abraham Bandera Baez for the Insight TV series Travel With A Goat.

You can follow Faldo on Instagram and Twitter.

After winning last year's Bake Off, the adorable Rahul Mandal has actually returned to his previous occupation "as an engineering researcher at [the] University of Sheffield's Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre", as Radio Times reports.

This doesn't mean he's stopped baking, as he regularly posts his creations on social media. He's yet to release a cookbook, but he's had numerous TV appearances since his win and has amassed nearly 150k followers on Instagram.

You can follow Mandal on Instagram.