The Great American Baking Show: Celebrity Holiday Returning to Roku with Casey Wilson as New Co-Host (Exclusive)

Tis the season for a special holiday edition The Great American Baking Show.

The Great American Baking Show: Celebrity Holiday will return to Roku this winter, PEOPLE exclusively reveals, with Happy endings alum and Bitch Sesh star Casey Wilson steps into the show’s iconic marquee as a new co-host, alongside returning co-hosts Zach Cherry.

Both will oversee a culinary showdown between six celebrity bakers – yet to be announced – in the holiday edition of the American adaptation of the iconic British baking competition series.

The stars will don their aprons, fire up their ovens and compete for the coveted Star Baker crown as they try to impress celebrity chef Paul Hollywood and restaurateur Prue Leith, who are both judges on The Great British Baking Show (in the UK known as The Great British Bake Off).

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From left: Paul Hollywood, Prue Leith, Casey Wilson and Zach Cherry on the set of ‘The Great American Baking Show: Celebrity Holiday.’

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Exclusive first look The Great American Baking Show: Celebrity Holiday — premiering on Roku on November 10 — reveals a roasting tent festively decorated for the occasion with garlands, twinkling lights, tinsel, Christmas trees, holly boughs, gingerbread houses and more.

Hollywood, Leith, Wilson and Cherry are also sitting together with plates of celebrity desserts in front of them, seemingly discussing the weekly challenge.

The American adaptation premiered on Roku in May, with six hour-long episodes featuring nine amateur bakers from around the country. Višnja hosted together with Office star Ellie Kemper.

Zach Cherry and Casey Wilson.

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Five seasons of the American series were previously broadcast on ABC, the last of which was in 2019.

“Our adaptation of the iconic series will continue to deliver the enduring warmth and humor that fans Baking Show space love, with a twist that we know Ellie and Zach will deliver,” Brian Tannenbaum, head of alternative originals at Roku, said in a statement at the time.

“The passion that fans have for this franchise is second to none,” he added, citing the enduring popularity of the franchise, which first debuted in England in 2010.

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Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith taste a cake on the set of ‘The Great American Baking Show: Celebrity Holiday.’

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In the trailer for the series, Leith said she was excited to see the American contestants in action. “I hope these bakers will bring something new to the tent,” she said. “America is truly the great melting pot of the world.”

While Baking Show fans tune in religiously every week, Leith recently revealed she can’t stand watching the long-running show. “The problem with our job as referees is that you’re looking down all the time and all your beards are in sight. Then, let me eat cake…”, she said to Daily mail‘with Weekend magazine last month.

“I never look Bake Off, and the truth is not that I don’t think it’s a wonderful show, I do,” she added. “I’m so vain, I can’t stand seeing my wobbly parts all the time.”

Casey Wilson.

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The Great American Baking Show is now streaming on the Roku Channel, which can be accessed for free on Roku devices, the web, iOS and Android devices, Amazon Fire TV, Samsung TV and Google TV, and other Android TV OS devices.

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