The Great Celebrity Bake Off 2023: release date, new trailer, celebs and all we know

By Caren Clark
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The Great Celebrity Bake Off 2023 is here with a host of famous faces entering the tent — and now we have a new trailer.

The Great Celebrity Bake Off 2023 — Paul Hollywood in a dark shirt and Prue Leith in a pink jacket and glasses sit next to each other in the tent in The Great British Bake Off.
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer — Paul Hollywood and Dame Prue Leith welcome more famous faces to the tent (Image credit: Love Productions)

The Great Celebrity Bake Off 2023 will see another batch of stars ready to show off their baking prowess.

Exacting judges Paul Hollywood and Dame Prue Leith will be casting their beady eyes over the offerings of 20 more celebrities as they try to raise money for Stand Up To Cancer.

Here’s everything you need to know about The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer 2023…

The Great Celebrity Bake Off 2023 — release date

The five-part season will air weekly from Sunday, March 19, 2023, on Channel 4. 

here is no US air date yet, but we will add it to this guide if one is released. 

The celebrities on The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer in a group in the tent.

A range of brave famous faces are heading into the tent for this year's The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer 2023.  (Image credit: Channel 4/Love Productions)

The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer 2023 — who will be taking part?

In each episode, four celebrities will compete for the coveted Star Baker apron:

Friends star David Schwimmer will be heading into the tent along with comic and Big Gary star Tom Davis, Starstruck’s Rose Matafeo and Little Mix’s Jesy Nelson.

The Repair’s Shop’s Jay Blades will also take part, as will comic and Loose Women star Judi Love, comedian Mike Wozniak and Dragons’ Den’s Deborah Meaden.

TV host AJ Odudu will compete, and look out for ex-TOWIE star Gemma Collins, comedian and The Witchfinder actor Tim Key and actor Jessica Hynes too.

Presenter Paddy McGuinness will also be firing up his food mixer along with Loose Women panellist Coleen Nolan, comic and Cheat host Ellie Taylor and The Inbetweeners’  and Fresh Meat's Joe Thomas.

Meanwhile, Olympic diver Tom Daley will be taking the plunge as well as actor David Morrissey, comic and Meet the Richardsons’ Lucy Beaumont and DJ Adele Roberts.

Noel Fielding in a blue printed shirt and Matt Lucas in a green printed shirt hold some strawberry-topped cakes in The Great British Bake Off.

Noel Fielding and Matt Lucas will host The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer. (Image credit: Love Productions)

The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer 2023 — what else has been revealed?

As the famous faces try to win over Paul Hollywood and Dame Prue Leith with their Signature, Technical and Showstopper bakes, hosts Noel Fielding and Matt Lucas will also be returning. But this will be Matt’s final time in the tent as he is bowing out before the next season of The Great British Bake Off later this year.

"Farewell Bake Off! It’s been a delicious experience and I can’t imagine a more fun way of spending my summers. But it’s become clear to me that I can’t present both Fantasy Football League and Bake Off alongside all my other projects," he said.

"So, after three series and 51 episodes, I am cheerfully passing the baguette on to someone else."

The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer 2023 — is there a trailer?

Yes, and it shows all the celebrities putting their baking skills to the test in the famous white tent... some with more success than others, it seems! 

To support Stand Up To Cancer, visit su2c.org.uk

Caren Clark
Caren Clark

Caren has been a journalist specializing in TV for almost two decades and is a Senior Features Writer for TV Times, TV & Satellite Week and What’s On TV magazines and she also writes for What to Watch.

Over the years, she has spent many a day in a muddy field or an on-set catering bus chatting to numerous stars on location including the likes of Olivia Colman, David Tennant, Suranne Jones, Jamie Dornan, Dame Judi Dench and Sir Derek Jacobi as well as Hollywood actors such as Glenn Close and Kiefer Sutherland.

Caren will happily sit down and watch any kind of telly (well, maybe not sci-fi!), but she particularly loves period dramas like Call the Midwife, Downton Abbey and The Crown and she’s also a big fan of juicy crime thrillers from Line of Duty to Poirot.

In her spare time, Caren enjoys going to the cinema and theatre or curling up with a good book.