AFTER winning the Great British Bake Off, Candice Brown would have been looking to go from strength to strength. But since then, the glamorous 36-year-old has suffered a heartbreaking split from her husband, been diagnosed with ADHD and seen her pub business devastated by the pandemic.
So it comes as little surprise the baker, who won the 2016 series of the show, says she has just had “the hardest, most difficult, horrible year of my life”.
Writing about her emotional ordeal in new book Happy Cooking, out today, she reveals: “This book is testament to the fact that every day I just about put one foot in front of the other and I am here. “Ironic that a book about food (my favourite thing) and mental health has nearly broken me.