Sara Cox wins coveted GBBO star baker with Jeremy Vine shaped cake (2024)

Sara Cox was awarded the Star Baker apron onThe Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up to Cancer on Channel 4on Sunday.

The Radio 2 host, 49, impressed judges Dame Prue Leith and Paul Hollywoodafter acing every challenge and receiving the second Hollywood handshake of the series.

Sara and fellow contestants Adam Hills, Reverent Richard Coles and Joe Lockewere tasked withbiscuits in the Signature category, custard slices in the Technical bake and finally a Showstopper where they created cakes depicting their famous best friends.

The DJ baked a toffee cake in the shape of pal and colleague Jeremy Vine riding a penny farthing - to honour his love of bikes - which the judges branded 'absolutely delicious'.

Following her win Sarah said: 'My kids won't believe it, it all feels like a weird cheese dream!'.

Sara Cox was awarded the Star Baker apron on The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up to Cancer on Channel 4 on Sunday

The Radio 2 host, 49, impressed judges Dame Prue Leith and Paul Hollywood after acing every challenge and baking the cake in the shape of Radio 2 colleague Jeremy Vine

Sara and fellow contestants Adam Hill (R) Reverent Richard Coles (L) and Joe Locke (C) were tasked with biscuits in the Signature category, custard slices in the Technical bake and finally a Showstopper where they created cakes depicting their famous best friends

And declared she would never take off her winning apron.

Meanwhile Prue explained: '[Sara] walked into the tent, she won the Signature, the Technical and the Showstopper. She's a good baker'.

After presenting her Jeremy cake to the judges Paul said: 'You've managed to create something very professional'.

Only for Sara to quip: 'First time in my career that I've created something professional.

Adam, 53, decided to use the showstopper challenge to make his own memorable cake in the shape of his Last Leg co-presenter Alex Brooker's prosthetic leg.

Admitting to the judges: 'Alex knows I'm making it, but what he doesn't know is that I am doing it is because he is not my famous best friend but I thought a prosthetic leg would be easier to make than a head'.

Despite impressing with the dessert's decoration the judges struggled to cut it and declared the comedian had both over mixed and over baked his offering.

As host Alison joked: 'It is a prothetic leg, so it's supposed to be hard'.

The DJ baked the toffee cake to honour her pal's love of bikes, which the judges branded 'absolutely delicious'

Following her win Sarah said: 'My kids won't believe it, it all feels like a weird cheese dream!'

Jeremy Vine pictured on a Penny Farthing in 2021

Sara and Jeremy pictured together

Elsehwere in the tent Heartstoppers star Joe, 20, made a Victoria Sponge in honour of friend and 'Broadway royalty' Patti LuPone.

His dessert left the judges hungry for more and they gushed over it's decoration with Prue describing it as a 'prefect balance' between cream and jam.

Meanwhile Paul said it was 'neat as a pin'.

Reverent Richard also made a Victoria sponge but decided to bake one in the shape of artist pal Grayson Perry.

Decorating it to resemble the Turner Prize winner's alter ego Claire, Richard joked: 'It may [look like] Claire at 2 o'clock in the morning in the gutter'.

Prue and Paul were complimentary of the cake's look but said the texture was 'not perfect'.

Earlier in the episode Adam candidly opened up about his late father's battle own with cancer.

Adam, 53, decided to use the showstopper challenge to make his own unique cake in the shape of his Last Leg co-presenter Alex Brooker's prosthetic leg

Admitting to the judges: 'Alex knows I'm making it, but what he doesn't know is that I am doing it is because he is not my famous best friend but I thought a prosthetic leg would be easier to make than a head'

Despite impressing with the desserts decoration the judges struggled to cut it and declared the comedian had both over mixed and over baked his offering (Adam, R, pictured with Alex, L)

Heartstoppers star Joe, 20, made a Victoria Sponge in honour of friend and 'Broadway royalty' Patti LuPone

His dessert left the judges hungry for more and they gushed over the decorated dessert with Prue describing it as a 'prefect balance' between cream and jam

Joe picked with his 'famous best friend' Broadway actress Patti LuPone

Saying: 'My dad had stomach cancerwhen he was about 55, beat it, and then about 10 to 15 years later ended up with leukaemia,' Adam said.

'He died at the end of 2012. To do something that can actually help cancer research, I think he would be chuffed with that.'

The celebrity version of the baking show sees a collection of stars compete in various baking challenges in order to raise money for Stand Up To Cancer.

It comes after Sara admitted she was 'a complete mess' after discovering close friend and colleague Steve Wright had passed away while she was presenting her Radio 2 show.

Wright was found dead at his £2million home on February 12 after paramedics were called to an incident at the north west London property.

Reverent Richard also made a Victoria sponge but decided to bake one in the shape of artist pal Grayson Perry

Decorating it to resemble the Turner Prize winner's alter ego Claire (pictured) Richard joked: 'It may [look like] Claire at 2 o'clock in the morning in the gutter'

Prue and Paul were complimentary of the cake's look but said the texture was 'not perfect'

And Sara who worked alongside the reclusive DJ at BBC Radio before his passing, admits the tragic news sent shockwaves across the studio floor.

'I was a complete mess,' she told Radio Times. 'We were all in complete shock. I looked out into the production area and people were hugging and crying; it really winded us as a station.'

The presenter was forced to continue fronting her afternoon show, despite struggling to hold back tears, but insists she had no alternative, 'because you want to be a professional, you want to do right by Steve, you want to do right by listeners and you want to support them in a way, but at the same time to be real.

'Because although the whole nation seems to be grieving, it was his kids’ grief more than anyone else's.'

Sara Cox wins coveted GBBO star baker with Jeremy Vine shaped cake (2024)
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