Behind the scenes at Great British Bake Off as contestants endure long filming days

The Great British Bake Off is backmost connected Channel 4 and portion the amusement is packed afloat of hilarious baking fails, determination are plentifulness of things that viewers bash not see

The Great British Bake Off is serving up different portion of delicious TV, with Channel 4 welcoming backmost hosts Alison Hammond and Noel Fielding for the show's 15th season. Cake connoisseurs Prue Leith and Paul Hollywood are acceptable to scrutinise the caller batch of bakers arsenic they tackle barroom week.

This clip around, the contestants are tasked with taking a elemental loaf barroom to caller heights and past bamboozling the judges with hyper-realistic illusion cakes. While the structure is brimming with baking blunders and jaw-dropping surprises, there's a batch that happens off-camera that viewers don't get to see.

Despite juggling their idiosyncratic lives during the week, the bakers dedicate their full weekends to the competition. Past participants person shared tales of gruelling filming schedules, with episodes taking anyplace from 10 to 16 hours to shoot.

Antony Amourdoux from play 9 spilled the beans to Insider: "You commencement aboriginal successful the greeting and it ends a small aft six oregon 7 successful the evening. Normally they sprout connected the weekends due to the fact that immoderate contestants enactment similar I was working."

He added, "So Saturday volition beryllium the full time and Sunday volition beryllium aboriginal successful the greeting to astir midday."

The effect is an full weekend's worthy of footage packed into a azygous episode, which explains wherefore contestants don't alteration outfits passim the weekend.

A important magnitude of contented ne'er makes it to the screen, with up to 16 hours of footage being edited down to conscionable 1 hr of television.

Rayo besides revealed that contestants are collected from their hotels astatine 9am each Saturday and Sunday to guarantee there's ample clip for each the baking enactment to beryllium captured connected film.

Typically, the amusement is changeable implicit a span of 10 weeks from April to June, allowing the bakers to support their regular jobs during the week.

This year's line-up includes Andy, a 44-year-old mechanic hailing from Essex, Christian, a 33-year-old menswear decorator based successful London, Dylan, a 20-year-old retail idiosyncratic from Buckinghamshire, and Georgie, a 34-year-old paediatric caregiver from Carmarthenshire.

Joining them are Gill, a 53-year-old manager from Lancashire, Hazel, a 71-year-old erstwhile nail technician from Kent, Illiyin, a 31-year-old commencement trauma specializer midwife from Norfolk, Jeff, a 67-year-old ex-university lecturer from West Yorkshire, and John, a 37-year-old directorate enactment manager from the West Midlands.

Completing the roster are Mike, a 29-year-old workplace manager from Wiltshire, Nelly, a 44-year-old palliative attraction adjunct from Dorset, and Sumayah, a 19-year-old dentistry pupil from Lancashire.

The Great British Bake Off returns to Channel 4 connected September 24 astatine 8pm