‘The world has to watch out for me’: Bake Off star Sandro Farmhouse

Celebrity cake maker and influencer Sandro Farmhouse, or Sandro as he is known to his fans, first won the nation’s hearts when he took part in the 2022 Great British Bake Off, and became an instant culinary pin-up. A former nanny and community worker for children with autism and special needs, he raised the heat in the tent with his bench-press physique, affable banter and huge smile.

As a finalist, he lost the Bake Off crown to Syabira Yusoff, but being on the show brought him the social media profile and financial security he had worked so hard to pull off. The fact that he was rejected the first time he applied to Bake Off, dug deep and re-applied is a mark of the tenacity and determination at work behind his model good looks and feelgood social media posts.

Not all his Instagram feeds are about his glitzy lifestyle, however. One of them is , or BOTS, a baking course for people on the autism spectrum and their families. Sandro grew up in Newham, east London, where he still lives today. After leaving