Quotes from John Whaite

Make the choice, if you can, to get milk direct from farms or farm drop services. We need the supermarkets, of course we do, but we need our farmers, too.

I had zero interest in banking, but the mountainous pile of legal training contract rejections forced me to look elsewhere. As a malleable graduate, I, as many students do, took whatever I could get.

I mean we take it for granted that a TV show is entertainment, but sometimes it's responsible for huge shifts in politics, in society. It transcends entertainment, somehow.

The Great British Bake Off' has rapidly evolved into one of the nation's favourite TV shows.

I've always had down days and up days - and by down I mean unable to get out of bed, by up I mean being hyper and elated.

One of my favourite low-carb suppers is a Spanish tortilla using cauliflower in place of the potato.

People think if you win the 'Bake Off' you walk straight into a big book deal and all of this but it isn't like that. You've still got to work really, really hard - probably harder than before - to make the right connections, to tour with brands, to discuss opportunities and negotiations.

I do like my own space. I like to just block the noise out after a while.

On 'Bake Off' there's lots of stuff no one notices until afterwards. At the time you're too busy concentrating. All the other bits, like the funny innuendoes, often go over your head.

I always wanted to be in the food industry, so I had to break away from the novelty of the 'Bake Off' and actually learn my trade. So, I had to go to Le Cordon Bleu to train.

When the post-'GBBO' media frenzy began I gladly quit my job. I darted up and down the country, heading to meetings with publishing houses.

We need to break the stigma around depression.

I was doing my barrister training in Leeds, so I was getting up at 5 A.M. and getting home and 10 P.M., and for me, that was a really stressful time.

Porridge, for me, has always been of the Scottish variety: salted, and for breakfast. The idea of claggy oatmeal mixed with hollandaise and a runny poached egg is almost nauseating.

As a farmer's son, I've always been forced to eat vegetables.

A lot of people struggle, whether you're a man, woman, non-binary... but I think men, in particular, are conditioned from a very early age not to talk about how they feel, not to cry, not to ask for help.