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#REDIRECT [[List of The Great British Bake Off finalists (series 1–7)#Candice Brown (winner)]]
{{short description|British reality television personality|bot=PearBOT 5}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2019}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Candice Brown
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| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1984|12|21|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[London]], [[United Kingdom]]
| nationality = British
| spouse = Liam Macaulay (m. 2018)
| alma_mater = [[University of Birmingham]] <small>([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])</small>
| occupation = Television presenter<br />PE teacher (former)
| years_active = 2016–present
| known_for = ''[[The Great British Bake Off]] (2016)''<br> ''[[Dancing on Ice]] (2018)''
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'''Candice Brown''' (born 21 December 1984) is a British reality television personality. She is most known as the winner of the [[The Great British Bake Off (series 7)|seventh series]] of ''[[The Great British Bake Off]]'';<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/oct/26/candice-brown-takes-great-british-bake-off-crown | title=Candice Brown takes Great British Bake Off crown | newspaper=[[The Guardian]] | date=26 October 2016 }}</ref> in her victory speech she attributed her success to starting baking at four years old.<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/26/candice-brown-wins-the-great-british-bake-off/ | title=Grandmother who helped Candice rise to the occasion | newspaper=[[Daily Telegraph]] | date=26 October 2016 }}</ref>

In November 2016, it was reported that she had left her job as a [[Physical education|PE]] [[teacher]] at [[Ashlyns School]], [[Berkhamsted]] in order to pursue a career in baking.<ref>{{Cit news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/22/great-british-bake-winner-candice-brown-quits-pe-teaching-devote/ | title=Great British Bake Off winner Candice Brown quits PE teaching to devote more time to cake | newspaper=[[Daily Telegraph]] | date=22 November 2016 }}</ref>

Brown occasionally cooks on the [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] daytime programme ''[[This Morning (TV programme)|This Morning]]''. She took part in the [[Dancing on Ice (series 10)|tenth series]] of ''[[Dancing on Ice]]'' on [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] in 2018, in which she was partnered with [[Matt Evers]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Who left Dancing on Ice? Full list of eliminated celebrities and professional skaters |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2018-03-11/who-left-dancing-on-ice-full-list-of-eliminated-celebrities-and-professional-skaters/ |website=Radio Times |accessdate=14 June 2018 |language=en}}</ref> In 2019 she appeared in ''The Great New Year's Bake Off'' and on ''[[Celebrity Mastermind]]'', which she won having taken [[Audrey Hepburn]] as her specialist subject.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bedfordtoday.co.uk/news/pictures-show-many-faces-candice-brown-bedford-bake-star-wins-celebrity-mastermind-163342 |title=Pictures show the many faces of Candice Brown as Bedford Bake Off Star wins Celebrity Mastermind |date=8 January 2019 |work=Bedford Today }}</ref>

In 2018, Brown worked for a short time in the pub kitchen of [[Tom Kerridge]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Article/2019/02/18/Bake-Off-winner-Candice-Brown-cooks-at-Tom-Kerridges-pub-the-Coach |title=https://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Article/2019/02/18/Bake-Off-winner-Candice-Brown-cooks-at-Tom-Kerridges-pub-the-Coach |title=Bake Off's Candice Brown on Work Experience at Kerridge's Coach |date=18 February 2019 |work=Morning Advertiser }}</ref> before taking up the lease, with her brother Ben, of the ''Green Man'' pub<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.hellomagazine.com/cuisine/2019082576877/candice-brown-love-baking-exclusive-interview/ |title=Exclusive: Inside Candice Brown's stunning new pub and home |work=Hello Magazine |date=25 August 2019 }}</ref> in [[Eversholt]], Bedfordshire.

==Publications==
*''Comfort: delicious bakes and family treats'' (Ebury, 2017: {{ISBN|1785037072}})

==References==
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