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How much is Paul Hollywood paid for Bake Off? ›

How much does Paul Hollywood get paid for The Great British Bake Off? After moving from the BBC to Channel 4, it was widely reported that Hollywood got a rise in his paycheck. Reports suggest that over three years, the baker gained £1.2 million as a judge on Bake Off.

Celebrity baker Paul Hollywood reportedly recently tied the knot with partner Melissa Spalding in a lavish ceremony attended by more than 75 of their closest family and friends, including fellow Great British Bake Off judge Prue Leith.

Paul John Hollywood MBE (born 1 March 1966) is an English celebrity chef and television personality, widely known as a judge on The Great British Bake Off since 2010. Hollywood began his career at his father's bakery as a teenager and went on to serve as head baker at a number of British and international hotels.

Paul's father founded a chain of bakeries known as Bread Winner, which eventually stretched from Aberdeen to Lincolnshire. Paul's grandfather was head baker at the Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool.

Nadiya Hussain

Nadiya won back in 2015 and has since gone on to host her own TV shows, has a monthly column in The Times and even created Queen Elizabeth II's 90th birthday cake. With an expected net worth of over £3 million, she has released six books since winning The Great British Bake Off.

Nadiya Hussain MBE, 38, won The Great British Bake Off in 2015, and earns the most of all the Bake Off winners.

Alexandra Hollywood

Paul Hollywood / Wife (m. 1998–2019)

Or it may have been that Paul Hollywood and his 21 year-old-son don't speak anymore. In 2019 a spokesperson for Alex Hollywood revealed that Josh had not seen or spoken to his father since he left the marital home and started a relationship with Summer Monteys-Fullam.

Paul and his wife, Melissa, have been together since 2020 after meeting at the Chequers Inn where the 39-year-old works as a landlady. This is Paul's second marriage, having split from his ex-wife Alexandra back in 2017 over cheating allegations.

It's surprising Paul can tell, given that it was only revealed in this series that he's actually colourblind.

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Josh Hollywood

Paul Hollywood / Children

Josh Hollywood

Paul Hollywood / Son

They're just absolutely real. And I'll tell you what amuse use, I've just done a tour all around England, a sort of one woman show just talking about my life and stuff like that. And the second half, it's audience questions. And the most frequent question is are Paul Hollywood's eyes.

PAUL Hollywood's tanning obsession is causing chaos on the Great British Bake Off because he disappears to sunbathe and returns a different shade. The 57-year-old judge even has a hammock outside the tent where he will strip to the waist to soak up some rays.

Paul John Hollywood was born on 1 March, 1966 in Wallasey, Cheshire to parents John and Gillian and is one of three boys.

Paul's fellow judge Prue Leith's exact salary is being kept a closely guarded secret. However, when she signed her contract back in 2017, it was reported she is paid £200,000 a series. If this is true, it means Prue is paid nearly three times more than what her predecessor Mary Berry took home for doing the same job.

Previous Bake Off contestant Martha Collison, who reached the quarter-finals in the 2014 series, told Barrelhouse: “Everyone is so surprised and thinks there must be some secret cash, but all we really get is a bunch of flowers and a cake stand.

There will be no prize money for the winning baker. Instead, the reigning champion will simply be handed flowers and a cake stand.

While the value of the new deal with the Bake Off maker, Love Productions, has not been disclosed, Channel 4 paid £75m for its first three-year deal when it poached the show from the BBC in 2016.