Emotional Adam Hills opens up about his late father’s battle with stomach cancer and leukaemia as he competes on The Great Celebity Bake Off

Adam Hills opened up about his late father’s fight with tummy cancer and leukaemia when he competed on The Wonderful Stand Up To Most cancers Bake Off. 

The Australian comedian, 53, was a single of four famous people to compete on Sunday’s episode of the Channel 4 exhibit, together with radio host Sara Cox, Reverend Richard Coles and Joe Locke.

Through the episode on Sunday, Adam, who hosts chat show The Last Leg, unveiled his individual personalized practical experience with cancer and how his father had died from it.

‘My father experienced abdomen most cancers when he was about 55, conquer it, and then about 10 to 15 several years later finished up with leukaemia,’ Adam said.

‘He died at the finish of 2012. To do something that can actually enable cancer investigate, I believe he would be happy with that.’ 

The celeb model of the baking display sees a assortment of stars compete in a variety of baking issues in order to raise cash for Stand Up To Most cancers. 

It was Radio 2 host Sara, 49, who amazed judges Dame Prue Leith and Paul Hollywood and was awarded the Star Baker apron following acing just about every problem and getting the second Hollywood handshake of the sequence.  

Sara, Adam, Richard and Joe were tasked with biscuits in the Signature group, custard slices in the Specialized bake and at last a Showstopper exactly where they established cakes depicting their well-known very best good friends. 

The DJ baked a toffee cake in the shape of colleague Jeremy Vine riding a penny farthing – to honour his like of bikes – which the judges branded ‘absolutely delicious’. 

Subsequent her win Sarah mentioned: ‘My young ones won’t imagine it, it all feels like a unusual cheese aspiration!’.

She also declared she would by no means acquire off her profitable apron.

In the meantime Prue defined: ‘[Sara] walked into the tent, she gained the Signature, the Technological and the Showstopper. She’s a very good baker’. 

After presenting her Jeremy cake to the judges Paul mentioned: ‘You’ve managed to create a little something extremely professional’. 

Only for Sara to quip: ‘First time in my profession that I have designed some thing skilled.

Adam resolved to use the showstopper challenge to make his own exceptional cake in the form of his Last Leg co-presenter Alex Brooker’s prosthetic leg. 

Admitting to the judges: ‘Alex appreciates I’m earning it, but what he won’t know is that I am doing it is for the reason that he is not my well-known greatest friend but I believed a prosthetic leg would be a lot easier to make than a head’. 

Irrespective of impressing with the desserts decoration the judges struggled to slash it and declared the comic experienced equally about combined and about baked his giving.

Heartstopper star Joe meanwhile produced a Victoria Sponge in honour of ‘Broadway royalty’ Patty Lupone. 

His dessert left the judges hungry for far more and they gushed over the adorned dessert with Prue describing it as a ‘prefect balance’ in between cream and jam. 

Meanwhile Paul said it was ‘neat as a pin’. 

Reverent Richard also manufactured a Victoria sponge but determined to bake one in the form of artist pal Grayson Perry. 

Decorating it to resemble Turner Prize winner’s change moi Claire Richard joked: ‘It may possibly [look like] Claire at 2 o’clock in the early morning in the gutter’.