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Sara-Aisha Kent

Great British Bake Off's Lottie Bedlow worked on a panto with Kerry Katona

The Great British Bake Off 2020 contestants were unveiled last night.

And being around famous faces - such as Matt Lucus, Noel Fielding, Prue Leith and Paul Hollywood - is unlikely to faze budding baker Lottie Bedlow.

The 31-year-old panto producer is sure to be at ease with stars after working with Kerry Katona on a production of Sleeping Beauty at the Kenneth Moore theatre in Ilford.

Budding baker Lottie Bedlow worked with Kerry Katona prior to her GBBO appearance (Mark Bourdillon/ Love Productions)

The hopeful kitchen whiz was Associate Director of the festive show for six-weeks from December 2019 to mid January 2020.

According to her CV the Exeter University graduate took up the role whilst working for Anton Benson Production company.

Ex-Atomic Kitten star Kerry played evil Carabose in the stage adaptation of Sleeping Beauty and she bashed critics who suggested she would crumble under the work load.

She hit back at claims that insisted the mother-of-five would not cope with performing in three shows a day.

"Putting a big [middle finger emoji] up to everyone who thought I was gonna be crap and not turn up for work!" she tweeted.

Lottie is hoping to win over the judges on GBBO.

The brunette from West Sussex believes she's inherited her love for baking from her Lancastrian great-grandmother and often swapped toys for cookery books as a child.

She says she is a “perpetually frustrated perfectionist”, adding: “Coming out of lockdown into another lockdown was weird – that first morning was utterly terrifying.”

*The Great British Bake Off returns on Channel 4 on September 22, 2020.

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