Great Australian Bake Off: Who Won Each Season?

Spoiler note: this post names the winner of every Great Australian Bake Off season.

The Great Australian Bake Off is Australia's licensed version of the original tent format, and it has had a more unsettled broadcast history than most of its sibling shows, moving networks twice and skipping several years along the way. This show is not yet part of our fully sourced data spine, so the list below is compiled from Wikipedia's season records and cross-checked against contemporary Australian television press.

Every Great Australian Bake Off winner

A show that has changed networks twice

The first season aired free-to-air on the Nine Network in 2013, with an architecture graduate, Nancy Ho, taking the inaugural title. The show then moved to subscription channel LifeStyle Food (later rebranded simply LifeStyle) from season 2 onward, and shifted again to Foxtel from season 6. Those network changes came with real gaps in the schedule, including a jump from season 5 in 2019 straight to season 6 in 2022, and the show has not aired every single year the way its UK and US cousins tend to.

Who has hosted and judged it

Shane Jacobson and Anna Gare hosted the debut season, with Dan Lepard and Kerry Vincent judging. Claire Hooper and Mel Buttle then took over hosting for seasons 2 through 6, paired with judges Maggie Beer and Matt Moran across that entire stretch, the longest-running judging pair the Australian version has had. Season 7 brought a full refresh: Cal Wilson and Natalie Tran took over hosting, and Darren Purchese and Rachel Khoo have judged every season since. Tom Walker replaced Cal Wilson as co-host for the most recent season.

Why the schedule has so many gaps

Unlike the UK original or the American and Canadian versions, which have both aired close to annually since their debuts, the Australian version has never settled into a predictable yearly rhythm. The three-year gap between season 1 in 2013 and season 2 in 2015 came from the network change itself, moving from free-to-air Nine to subscription channel LifeStyle Food required rebuilding the show's production from the ground up. The later gap between season 5 in 2019 and season 6 in 2022 overlaps with the same production shutdowns that disrupted filming schedules across the entire genre worldwide, Great Canadian Baking Show included. Viewers used to the UK show's reliable autumn slot should not expect the same consistency here.

No cash prize, same as the UK original

The Australian version keeps the same non-monetary prize structure as its British parent: a trophy, a cake stand, and the title, with no cash payout for the winner. That consistency across nearly every international adaptation of the format, Australian, American, and Canadian versions included, says something about how tightly licensed these shows are to the original's tone. Networks buying the format do not just license the tent and the three-bake structure, they license the whole philosophy of low-stakes, non-cash competition that made the original stand out from the rest of reality television in the first place.

The wider Bake Off family

The Great Australian Bake Off is one of several international versions of the same format, alongside The Great Canadian Baking Show and The Great American Baking Show. For the original series that started it all, see our full list of every Great British Bake Off winner. If the show has you wanting to bake your own version of a showstopper, a decent rolling pin and a set of mixing bowls cover the two tools that show up in nearly every episode's signature round.