Giuseppe Dell'Anno: Where Are They Now?

Spoiler note: this post confirms that Giuseppe Dell'Anno won his season of Bake Off.

Giuseppe Dell'Anno won the twelfth series of The Great British Bake Off in 2021, becoming the first Italian to lift the cake stand. A structural engineer living in Bristol, he baked his way through the tent with recipes rooted in his family's kitchen in Italy, and his win landed with an audience that had watched him talk warmly about his late mother's cooking all series. Here is where the years since have taken him.

The champion who kept his day job

One of the more grounded things about Giuseppe is that winning did not send him running from his career. He continued working in engineering and product development for the packaging company Sealed Air even as the cookbook offers arrived, a detail he has spoken about openly in interviews. It is a reminder that a Bake Off win does not automatically become a full-time television job, and that plenty of champions build a second life around baking rather than replacing the first.

Two cookbooks, fast

Giuseppe moved quickly into publishing. His debut cookbook, Giuseppe's Italian Bakes, was released in 2022 and gathered more than sixty sweet and savoury Italian recipes. It was well received on release, appearing on best-of-the-year cookbook lists in the British press that autumn. He followed it in 2023 with a second book, Giuseppe's Easy Bakes, which leaned into quicker and more accessible Italian baking for home cooks short on time.

The books lean on the same thing that carried him through the tent: classic Italian technique explained patiently, the kind of instruction that suits anyone working through a baking cookbook at their own kitchen table.

Where things stand now

Giuseppe has stayed based in Bristol with his family. Reporting around his cookbook releases described a short period living in Milan after the win before he returned to the UK in early 2022, and he has continued to appear at food festivals, demonstrations, and media spots tied to Italian baking. His public footprint since then has been steady rather than headline-grabbing, centred on the books and live events rather than a big new television series.

That is roughly where the reliably verifiable trail ends. He has not fronted a long-running BBC cookery strand in the way some earlier champions did, and it would be guesswork to describe any current television project beyond the guest and festival appearances that his books generated. What is clear and confirmed is the run of cookbooks and the fact that he built his post-show identity squarely around his heritage.

The takeaway for fans

Giuseppe's story is a tidy answer to the question of what a Bake Off win can be for someone who genuinely loves their existing career: not a full pivot, but a serious second act in publishing built on the exact skills that won the series. If his layered Italian bakes have you wanting to attempt a proper sponge or a filled celebration cake, a dependable stand mixer does the patient work those recipes ask for.

If you are working through the show's champions, his fellow winners are worth a look too. Jo Wheatley and John Whaite took very different paths after their own wins, and every Great British Bake Off winner tracks the full list.