Candice Brown

Candice Brown (born 21 December 1984) is a British reality television personality. She is most known as the winner of the seventh series of The Great British Bake Off; in her victory speech she attributed her success to starting baking at four years old. In November 2016, it was reported that she had left her job as a PE teacher at Ashlyns School, Berkhamsted in order to pursue a career in baking. She occasionally cooks on the ITV daytime programme This Morning. On 1 November 2017, it was announced that Brown would be taking part in the tenth series of Dancing on Ice on ITV, where she was partnered with Matt Evers. In 2018, Brown worked for a short time in the pub kitchen of Tom Kerridge before taking up the lease, with her brother Ben, of the Green Man pub in Eversholt, Bedfordshire. On 1 January 2019, Brown returned for The Great New Year's Bake Off; however, she was not crowned Star Baker, losing out to series 8 runner up, Steven Carter-Bailey. On 4 January 2019, she appeared on Celebrity Mastermind. Her specialist subject was Audrey Hepburn and she subsequently won the episode.