Jo Brand will guest host an episode / Credit: BBCThe 16 celebrities to take part in this year's Sport Relief Bake Off have been revealed.
Samantha Bond, Emma Freud, Jane Horrocks, Rochelle Humes, Jamelia, Doon Mackichan, Victoria Pendleton, Helen Skelton, Bonnie Wright and Kirsty Young are the females scheduled to take part, alongside the men - Michael Ball, Jason Gardiner, Alistair McGowan, Greg Rutherford, Johnny Vaughan and Michael Vaughan.
Helen Skelton said: “I decided to take part in the Great Sport Relief Bake Off because I’m absolutely rubbish at baking. All my friends and family laugh at anything I do in the kitchen, so I thought this might be a chance to redeem myself. I wished I’d practiced more beforehand. When they said to me ‘you’ve got to make a pizza’ I thought they meant just put the toppings on a pizza, I didn’t realise they meant make the dough and everything!”
Helen Skelton is one of those taking part / Credit: BBCThe series begins Monday January 13, and four episodes will air from then until Thursday January 16, with four celebrity bakers of varying experience and technique taking part in each.
Signature, technical and showstopper bakes will all be a major part of deciding who takes home the title of Sport Relief Star Baker at the end of each episode.
Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood will again be judging, and for the first time ever three guest presenters - Omid Djalili, Ed Byrne and Jo Brand - will join Sue Perkins to present one episode each.
Olympic gold medal winner Nicola Adams will also feature in the series, as viewers are taken to South Africa to visit a number of Comic Relief funded projects, showing how the money raised this Sport Relief could go towards changing the lives of people worldwide.
Catch the Bake Off on BBC Two on Monday January 13 (8.30pm) and Tuesday to Thursday January 14-16 (8pm).
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