The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer has revealed it’s full line-up, including a brand new guest judge making their show debut.
The famous faces will be tasked with battling it out in the tent in front of the judges, who will dish out their verdicts across the Signature, Technical and Showstopper challenges.
Having gained a wide range of British fans after her appearance on Celebrity Big Brother last year, American singer and Dance Moms star JoJo Siwa will be first to head into the tent.
She will be joined by Love Island star and mega-influencer Molly-Mae Hague, as well as former Geordie Shore and Strictly Come Dancing star Vicky Pattison.
Radio 2 Breakfast show host Scott Mills and singer songwriter Rag’n’Bone Man (real name Rory Graham) will also make their appearance in the tent.
They will battle it out against JLS singer Aston Merrygold, Kin actor Emmett J Scanlan, broadcaster Edith Bowman and Death in Paradise’s Ralf Little.
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer has revealed it’s full line-up, including a brand new guest judge making their show debut
Cherish, who judges Bake Off The Professionals, will appear on the Stand Up To Cancer special
It’ll also be a battle of the comedians, as Joe Wilkinson, Babatunde Aleshe, Jon Richardson, Roisin Conaty, Alex Brooker, Rose Matafeo, Tom Davis, Richard Herring and Judi Love will all make an appearance in the tent.
Other contestants include former Sugababes singer Mutya Buena, I’m A Celebrity winner Sam Thompson, actress Rose Ayling-Ellis and TV personality Mark Wright.
While the line-up is completed by YouTube and I’m A Celebrity star Nella Rose and One Day actress Ambika Mod.
The contestants will be divided up into a series of episodes, with only one star rising above the rest to be crowned Star Baker each round.
Bake Off judge Paul Hollywood will this time be joined by Bake Off: The Professionals star Cherish Finden – an internationally renowned pastry chef.
Paul and Cherish will be there on hand to test, taste and judge the celebrities’ abilities in each of the Stand Up To Cancer specials.
Bake Off hosts Alison Hammond and Noel Fielding will also be on hand to offer encouragement, laughter and a shoulder-to-cry on for the famous faces.
Judge Cherish said: ‘I am delighted to be joining Paul in judging Celebrity Bake Off for SU2C. Stepping from the professional kitchen into the famous Bake Off tent felt like my first day of school – my heart was racing and I had butterflies in my tummy!
Paul, Alison and Noel will also return for the Stand Up To Cancer special
Prue announced she’s leaving the Channel 4 show after nine years of judging alongside Paul Hollywood on Instagram last week
‘Whilst I definitely haven’t left my ruler at home, judging these wonderful celebrities is about more than just precision, it’s about spreading joy and supporting a meaningful cause.
‘To be part of SU2C and see the contestants push themselves out of their comfort zone for such a good cause was simply brilliant.’
It comes after new Bake Off judge Nigella Lawson admitted she’s ‘really frightened’ about joining the Great British Bake Off judging line up – as she opened up on her biggest concern about taking over from Prue Leith.
The TV chef took to This Morning last Thursday, joining Ben Shephard and Cat Deeley in the wake of the announcement about her new on-screen role on the Channel 4 show.
Nigella, 66, was confirmed as the new host after Prue announced she was leaving the show after nine years of judging alongside Paul Hollywood last week.
It’s not the first time the chef has been a TV judge, having served as a guest judge on MasterChef Australia and a main judge on Australia’s My Kitchen Rules.
Nonetheless, Nigella admitted she’s still ‘really frightened’ about the idea of stepping into the role – which before Prue, 85, was previously held by Mary Berry.
She told Ben, 51, and Cat, 49, live on air: ‘Prue is just fantastic, and Mary was fantastic before, so if I think about that I get really frightened.
Nigella Lawson has admitted she’s ‘really frightened’ about joining the Great British Bake Off judging line up – as she opened up on her biggest concern about taking over from Prue Leith
The TV chef, who replaced former show judge Mary Berry in 2017, confirmed she was waving goodbye to the hit baking series
‘[Channel 4] have given me the honour of offering me this and I just want to do it as well as I can, become a part of it, enjoy it, and I’m very excited about it.’
Nigella, who has also hosted her own cookery programmes including Nigella: Cook, Eat, Repeat and Nigella Express, added that she is taking the new role ‘very seriously’.
She continued: ‘I am a teeny bit frightened, I’d be lying if I didn’t say that, I am excited and I’m taking it very seriously – but it’s about the programme, it’s an institution of national treasure status, and it’s about the bakers.
‘I just want to be there and be part of it. It’s good to have a change at my time of life.’
The most important part of the show for Nigella is being able to offer up a softer opinion to the bakers than her co-star and fellow judge, Paul, 59 – and give the bakers a chance to shine.
Nigella added: ‘I’m not someone who looks for fault, I look for pleasure – that is my basic, I can’t say it’s a philosophy, but my basic attitude in life.
‘Paul Hollywood is Mr Technical and I’m all about the eating – if I see my job as eating, it’s not too daunting, I can eat.
‘But it is very much about [the bakers] the show, and that’s what I love about it – there’s a lot of competition programmes can be a bit hard-edged but this isn’t, and we need that.’
Even that isn’t without trepidation, as Nigella admitted she will have to watch her ‘clumsy’ nature so as not to cause bakers any chaos in the tent.
She joked: ‘I am the clumsiest person in the world so as long as I don’t know any of their cake off the tables and the stands…’
Ben was quick to quiz Nigella on when fans could expect her to make her debut on Channel 4 screens – and she couldn’t help but quip back at him that he’d have to wait.
‘Do you know when you’re starting?,’ Ben asked, to which Nigella replied: ‘Why should I tell you?’ before clarifying: ‘I do know a bit, I’m frightened of getting it wrong.
‘It will start filming soon, though. I’ll let you know the minute I’m in that tent!’
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer will air on Channel 4 this Spring