Paul Hollywood is a renowned baker who has managed to use his unique recipe to win the hearts and bellies of his huge followers. Hollywood is English and he is an author, TV personality and race car driver. He has participated in several TV shows. So far, her career can be called successful, but her married life is lacking.
Paul Hollywood – Biography
He was born on March 1, 1966 in Wallasey.Cheshire, England as Paul John Hollywood. The professional baker is certainly not the first in his family. Baking has been part of his family for a long time. His paternal grandfather was also a baker and the father of Hollywood. Hollywood is the son of a bakery owner, John F. Hollywood and Gillian M. Harman. During his childhood, he attended Mosslands School. He then attended the Wallasey School of Art, where he studied sculpture. He then left school to work as a baker at his father’s bakery in York. His baking skills helped him become the head baker of several hotels in the UK.
Career
He has been a judge on the British game show, The Great British Patisserie since it first aired on the BBC in the summer of 2010. He is one of three judges on the show who tests a number of contestants’ baking skills. The show first aired on BBC Two for its first four seasons and later moved to BBC One, where it aired for the next three seasons, due to its growing subscriber base. The Great British Baking Show is currently airing on Channel 4. The Hollywood co-judges are Mary Berry and Prue Leigh. Berry stepped down as a judge on the show and she has since been replaced by Sandi Toksvig and Noel Fielding.
Hollywood made an appearance as a judge on The American Baking Contest alongside Marcela Valladolid for 7 episodes in 2013. The American show is an adaptation of The Great British Baking, of which Hollywood was also one of the judges. It aired on the CBS network.
In 2013, Hollywood appeared on his own television show called Paul Hollywood’s Pies and Puds, which aired on BBC One and BBC One HD. The show ran for one season, from November 4 to November 29, 2013, and had 20 episodes lasting 45 minutes each.
Paul Hollywood has also featured as a judge on The Great American Baking Show. Like American Baking Contest, it was also adapted from The Great British Patisserie. The first season of the show aired as The Big Holiday Bakery Show. The reality show made its first season premiere on November 30, 2015 with 4 episodes. The second season produced double the episodes of the first, and its third season produced 6 episodes, only two of which aired. The show featured presenters such as Nia Vardalos, Ian Gomez, Ayesha Curry, Anthony Adams and Emma Bunton. Its judges are Mary Berry, Johnny Luzzini, Sherry Yard and Paul Hollywood. The show is currently airing on the ABC network.
Hollywood featured as a guest on Who Think You Are? A documentary that traces the lives of famous lineages. The British show has been on the BBC since 2004 and has had 15 seasons and over a hundred episodes. On the show, it was discovered that Hollywood’s maternal grandfather, Norman Harman, had served in the military during World War II. His great-great-grandfather, Kenneth Mackenzie was a policeman in the 1850s.
In 2005, Hollywood received the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards for Best Bread and Baking Book.
Wife – Alexandra Hollywood, Affair
Paul Hollywood was married to a diving instructor, Alexandra Hollywood between 1998 and 2017. The couple met and married in Cyprus. As a product of their union, they have a son named Josh Hollywood.
Their marriage began to show flaws after that. Public opinion learned that Paul was engaged in extramarital affairs, which led to the couple’s provisional separation in 2013. He later confirmed that he was meeting Marcela Valladolid – a co -judge of the American Baking Competition. Later he ended talks with Valladolid and returned with Alexandra. But in November 2017, the couple finalized their separation in front of a judge.
Net value
The professional baker also engages in car racing and leads an exciting career. His net worth is estimated at 9 million pounds which is around 12 million US dollars.