The Truth About This Great British Baking Show Judge

paul hollywood judge of the popular competition series the great british baking show is well known for his congratulatory handshake and harsh judging but hollywood's life isn't all about bread from race cars to bad business ventures and everything in between here's what the star baker is like outside the bake off tent the blue eyed baker was set to become the next michelangelo in his teens following in the footsteps of his mum who was a graphic artist he had joined wallasey school of art and taken a liking to sculpture well it's not hard to imagine hollywood as a sculptor replace the dough scraper with a chisel and there you have it though hollywood spent his school holidays helping out his dad a professional baker he never dreamt of pursuing it as a career when his father asked him if he wanted to become a baker hollywood initially said no then his dad offered to pay him 500 pounds if he cut his long hair and joined the industry he wrote in his book a baker's life that put things in a different light for a 17 year old overnight he shaved his chest length hair once the decision was made hollywood started working in the family bakeries by his early 20s he was managing the whole bakery all by himself while his friends went out clubbing and stopped at the bakery in the morning hollywood went to bed early and woke up in the wee hours of the morning to make fresh loaves he told the daily mail it upset me a bit to miss out on partying but baking was what i wanted to do after apprenticing at his dad's bakeries hollywood had moved on to working with reputed hotels like chester grosvenor and later the dorchester but instead of settling into the cushy life hollywood bid goodbye to it in 1996 he packed his bags and traveled 2 000 miles away to start a new life in the historic town of paphos cyprus my time in pathos was an experience that changed my life for me when i came here when i was 28 it was a real cultural shock for me in fact until then hollywood had never traveled much away from home his mom expected him to come back in less than six months but hollywood ended up staying in cyprus for six years he took up the head baker's position at a five-star seafront hotel called the annabelle and soaked in the culture made new friends and baked his best breads and it was here that he met his first wife alex a scuba diving instructor who helped him bag his first television gig the mediterranean country also exposed him to traditional cypriot breads like laganes and lavroche recipes of which are included in his best seller 100 great breads alex and paul hollywood's marriage hit a rocky road in 2013 when the great british baking show got its american version the american baking competition the shooting for the cbs show lasted four and a half weeks during the span of which hollywood had an affair with his co-judge american chef marcella villadolide the news was a hard blow to hollywood and his wife's otherwise rumor-free marriage the couple however patched things up after hollywood allegedly called the affair his biggest mistake per hello magazine i'm not brutal for brutal's sake just when their lives were getting back on track there came another blow an alleged affair between hollywood and summer monty's fulham a barmaid he had met while organizing a birthday party for alex after he and his wife split hollywood and monty's fulham got together that romance ended after two years when monty's fulham claimed that hollywood allegedly asked her to sign a gagging order that prevented her from talking about their relationship to anyone yes even her mum according to mirror while hollywood nursed this breakup he met melissa spalding his local pub landlady whom he has been reportedly dating since october 2019. come on say something nice to say it was a disaster would be a humiliation to disaster for a man who preaches bread baking one would imagine that selling a loaf would be a piece of cake but paul hollywood has had it rough his first company hollywood bread only lasted a few years beyond its 1999 london launch after bringing a loss of over 300 000 hollywood bread was liquidated in 2003 and ultimately dissolved by 2005 but hollywood didn't give up hope in 2007 he set up poor hollywood artisan bread which the telegraph reports was quote inspired by the baking techniques he discovered on his travels to cyprus egypt and jordan paul hollywood artisan bread supplied bread to harrods and waitrose popular supermarkets in london meanwhile his career in television was ramping up and his first book was out in the market in 2010 the great british baking show had begun to air on bbc because of his television commitments paul hardly had time to nurture his bread company ball hollywood artisan bread had to be shut down in 2014 with debts of close to 70 000 it was a quote huge headache and a massive problem for the celebrity breadmaker three years later hollywood opened need bakery and coffee at central london station which as fate would have it was demolished to make space for a new entrance to the station paul hollywood turned a loaf of bread into a luxury item right before the 2008 christmas season those passing by the bread aisle at harrods london might have been in for a shock to come across a loaf that cost 10 times the normal rate at 19 a loaf the national association of master bakers had named it the most expensive loaf in britain then hollywood told the telegraph that it was the best bread he had made saying if you think of the ordinary loaf of bread it's quite plain and often lacking in excitement if you were to compare it to a car it might be a ford fiesta for example but this is the rolls royce of loaves and what bread would cost that much an almond and roquefort sourdough apparently the bread was made with roquefort cheese purchased from a producer in rural france and grade a flower sourced from a miller in wiltshire england hollywood said all the constituents of the bread are the finest money can buy i have searched all over the country and europe to make sure the ingredients are the very best available when a checkered flag is around poor hollywood whips up a new personality i'm sort of a baker and part-time racing driver hollywood made his debut as a motor car racer in 2015 and has gone on to drive on prestigious circuits such as le mans he said in an interview that he took to motor racing after he was approached by aston martin to try out one of their race cars hollywood told the sunday times i can go from eating cream cakes straight into an aston martin and race it it's a good life hollywood has been crazy about cars from the time he can remember he used to play with an aston martin db5 toy car the one that features in the james bond film goldfinger as a child but besides the love for cars his yearning for a bit of anonymity is what pushed him into taking up motorcar racing as a passion he told the sunday times when i come here with a helmet on with a mirror advisor no one knows who i am my name's on the car but that flashes by for the first time i can be me doing things i want to do for me not for everybody else paul hollywood grew up in a family where both his mom and dad baked well on saturdays his mom would make a fruit pie with freshly picked apples rhubarb or pears his dad would make bread rolls hollywood helped out at his dad's bakery filling donuts with jam and making tea among his earliest memories of baking with his family is making ginger biscuits with his mum and rolls with his dad he told npr i must have been six possibly seven years old and my mom used to make ginger biscuits quite a lot actually mainly over the weekend they really were the first time i ever baked and that with a cup of tea is difficult to beat hollywood also has a vivid memory of making roles with his dad when he was just 10 years old he told tv times magazine it was a saturday afternoon and we had dickie davies on i still remember the taste and smell as they came out of the oven it was one of the best roles i've ever had one can only imagine the discomfort inside the bake off tent when in 2019 the sun reported that pool hollywood earned nine times more than his the great british baking show co-stars it is fair to note that at the time hollywood was the only one of the team who had been with the show since its inception prulith hollywood's fellow judge and hosts knowlfielding and sandy talksvig who was replaced in 2020 by matt lucas came in much later hollywood used to earn about 128 000 a year for his appearance as a co-judge on the great british bake off when it aired on bbc in 2016 when the series moved to channel 4 hollywood's colleagues quit as a sign of loyalty towards bbc not hollywood one could say his loyalties lie where the pastry was he was however criticized for following the money i don't have a heart yeah that's not going to come as a big shock to people his salary increased to about 500 000 a year after the show moved to channel 4. hollywood has earned a lot of dough by printing books about kneading dough and this was even before he was riding on the success of the great british baking show his first book 100 great breads came out in 2005 and was termed the top bread and pastry book by the gourmand world cookbook awards it was published in 10 countries and in seven languages after the great british baking show was launched in 2010 hollywood made nearly eight million dollars in book sales in the first five years during this period he wrote four books which sold 593 000 copies his 2012 book how to bake made close to 3 million dollars in sales alone per daily mail hollywood quite strategically released books that rode on the coattails of his successful series paul hollywood's british making came out in 2014 coinciding with his appearance on tv paul hollywood's bread coincided with his series bread on bbc and pies and puds came out when his series pies and puds was airing on bbc in 2013. paul hollywood always worked behind the scenes crafting the best scone within the four walls of the kitchen until a television opportunity came banging on the door one television show led to another and before he knew it there were features about his hair and handshakes it's the hollywood handshake but did hollywood want any of this as it turns out no he described himself as a shy person to daily express saying the guy on tv is the guy i hide behind you've got to entertain people and it's hard work i'm exhausted at the end when hollywood remained on the great british baking show after his original co-stars left the series he told radio times i became the most hated man in the country it's not fun for someone that doesn't like being in the limelight i didn't set out to be on the telly i set out to be a good baker and i didn't want this paul hollywood is fascinated by things that come with a baggage of history like ancient bread-baking techniques of cyprus egypt and jordan a 12th century church a unesco world heritage site in paphos cyprus where he got married or a two-decade-old f1 racing car that he restored after spending several thousands of dollars home is where the heart is they say and since his heart is stuck in medieval times his first property was a 13th century house in canterbury kent the four bed property with its 600 year old lead windows terracotta flooring in the kitchen and a medieval front door was one of the oldest private homes in the united kingdom in the uk houses that are of historic value are given either a one or two grade depending on when they were built and if they are of special interest grade one are the buildings of the highest significance and include those such as the buckingham palace hollywood's kent home which he remained in for over a decade was a grade one property as well check out one of our newest videos right here plus even more mashed videos about your favorite celebrity chefs are coming soon subscribe to our youtube channel and hit the bell so you don't miss a 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Length: 12min 3sec (723 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 13 2021