GBBO winner John Whaite lands new daytime show with Rosemary Shrager

Great British Bake Off winner and Attitude favourite John Whaite is returning to TV alongside Rosemary Shrager for a major new daytime series in 2016.

ITV has commissioned new culinary format The Chopping Block from production house TwoFour, which is set to spawn 20 hour-long episodes combining elements of competition with reality.

I’m THRILLED to announce that Rosemary Shrager and I have a brand new cookery show coming to ITV1 in 2016. We’ve had 20 episodes of ‘The Chopping Block’ commissioned. I can’t wait to get cracking.

A photo posted by John Whaite (@johnwhaitebakes) on Aug 28, 2015 at 10:48am PDT

The show will put pairs of budding kitchen geniuses under the microscope both at work and in their day-to-day lives, with Shrager and Whaite keeping a close eye on proceedings.

Rachel Innes-Lumsden, deputy director of programs for TwoFour, said in a statement: “Rosemary and John are the entertaining and authoritative hosts of a format that combines the competition of a cookery show with the immersion of a reality show.”

Whaite won the third series of Bake Off back in 2012, and has since become a resident chef on Lorraine. His two books, John Whaite Bakes and John Whaite Bakes At Home were released in 2013 and 2014 respectively.