John Whaite Biography – John Whaite Wiki
John Whaite is an English baker who won the third series of The Great British Bake Off in 2012. He works as a chef, television presenter, and author. He has had a weekly cooking slot on the ITV breakfast programme Lorraine and in April 2016 he started co-presenting Chopping Block, ITV’s daytime cookery competition, alongside Rosemary Shrager.
He won a place at Oxford to read Modern and Medieval Languages but switched to study Law at the University of Manchester to be nearer to home. In 2012 he gained a first-class degree after sitting for his law exams while filming Bake Off. He also completed a summer scheme with top law firm Eversheds Sutherland and worked briefly as a banker in the Royal Bank of Scotland’s asset finance department. He rejected a career in law or banking after winning the series and took classes at Le Cordon Bleu to pursue a career in cooking.
He has released four cookery books. His first, John Whaite Bakes, was released on April 25, 2013, and the second, John Whaite Bakes at Home, was released on March 27, 2014. The third book, Perfect Plates in 5 Ingredients, was published in April 2016. The fourth book, Comfort: Food to soothe the soul, was published in October 2017. In 2019, he wrote A Flash in the Pan, which contains recipes for cooking using only a stovetop pan.
Whaite wrote a column on food for The Daily Telegraph. He briefly wrote the column “Hot John” for Heat magazine in 2013. After appearing on Bake Off, he studied for a Diplôme de Pâtisserie at Le Cordon Bleu, London. In 2015, John Whaite’s Kitchen Cookery School opened in a converted 400-year-old cattle shed on his family’s farm on Tunley Lane in Wrightington, Lancashire.
In 2012, Whaite took part in the third series of The Great British Bake Off on BBC Two. After making it through to the final, he won the show with his Italian sausage and roasted vegetable pithivier, fondant fancies, and heaven and hell chiffon cake. Despite winning the show, he won “Star Baker” only once in the series.
Whaite appears as a resident chef on ITV’s Lorraine programme, hosted by Lorraine Kelly. He has also appeared on This Morning, What’s Cooking? The Alan Titchmarsh Show and Sunday Brunch as a guest chef. In April 2016, Whaite began co-presenting Chopping Block, ITV’s new daytime cookery competitive show with Rosemary Shrager where four couples compete in a series of daily challenges to win a prize. A second series began airing in March 2017.
Whaite makes regular appearances, as one of its chefs, with presenter Steph McGovern on her Channel 4 daytime show Steph’s Packed Lunch, which has been broadcast since Spring 2020 from a waterfront studio at Leeds Dock. In August 2021, he was announced as a contestant on the nineteenth series of Strictly Come Dancing. He is part of the first-ever male same-sex pairing with professional Johannes Radebe.
John Whaite Age
He was born on May 23, 1989, in Chorley, United Kingdom.
John Whaite Partner
He resides in Leeds with his partner Paul Atkins, a graphic designer. He announced their engagement on July 21, 2017.
He said he has suffered from depression. He also said he has experienced bulimia in the past. In 2019, Whaite worked on a 100-acre (40 ha) farm in the mountains of British Columbia, Canada, which he found via the Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms website.
John Whaite Family
He was born in Chorley, Lancashire, and brought up on a farm in Wrightington. He has two sisters, Jane and Victoria. He became interested in baking at the age of seven after his parents divorced.
John Whaite Instagram
His Instagram handle is @john_whaite.
