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Leighton Biography – Leighton Wiki
Leighton is a Welsh software delivery manager, baker and a contestant on The Great British Bake Off (GBBO) 2025. He likes to play with traditional Welsh/British and American flavours, with favourites like Welsh cakes with peanut butter and Victoria Sponge with key lime pie filling.
Originally from Swansea, proud Welshman Leighton has always done things his own way, ignoring anyone that told him ‘boys don’t bake’! He grew up playing the organ at his local church. With a mathematical mind, Leighton is guided in both life and baking by the approach that ‘anything can be done with a formula’.
Leighton Age
Great British Bake Off contestant Leighton was born in 1965 in Swansea, Wales.
Leighton Partner
Bake Off’s Leighton lives in Surrey with his Californian husband Eric and their Irish Terrier, Cilla.
Leighton Great British Bake Off
Leighton is one of the bakers competing in the 16th season of The Great British Bake Off on Channel 4. The bakers will be competing against each other in the famous baking tent, under the watchful eyes of judges Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith, alongside presnters Alison Hammond and Noel Fielding.
Leighton said he was “grinning like the Cheshire cat for days” after finding out he had been cast on Bake Off. “To be inside that tent, baking where so many others had baked before… it was a moment I’ll never forget. My family in Wales and the USA are so very proud of me because we’re all obsessed with the Bake Off,” he added.
Leighton’s Instagram handle is @leightonthebaker.
