Biography

Jo Wheatley has always had a love of baking since a very early age. One of her earliest memories is of making jam tarts with her Nan while standing on an upturned bucket by her Nan’s work surface. For the past twenty-five  years Jo has been a wife and a mother and without realizing it,  extending her knowledge and perfecting her skills as a baker daily, through cooking and baking for her family of three boys.

Last year Jo watched BBC’s Great British Bake Off and thought how she would love to enter.  It  made her realise she would  like nothing more than to pursue a career in the thing she loves doing most of all – baking! Jo feels incredibly proud that not only did she make it onto The Great British Bake off, but also she went on to win against some amazing bakers.  Since winning the Great British Bake Off,  Jo has set up a small cookery school from her home in Essex.   

This October Jo was lucky enough to give Jay Rayner a mini baking lesson on the art of scone making For BBC TV’s The One Show.  Jo has an extremely successful blog entitled  Jo's Blue AGA, receiving between 1500 up to 30,000 hits day.  Jo has recipes published on the BBC website, in The Great British Bake off book and forthcoming  in The Daily Mail “Weekend” Magazine.

Her mantra in life if it doesn't work first time, try again until you get it right.  She says” I think with baking it's mainly about flavour, if you get that right all the other elements will fall perfectly into place”.

When she is not baking Jo loves to ride horses in the countryside around her or go swimming.