'The Great British Baking Show' Introduces The Baking Class of 2021

After much throat-clearing and deliberate delays, The Great British Baking Show (a.k.a The Great British Bake Off) has confirmed it will return right where everyone knew it would, in the third week of September. As it did last year, the series will premiere overseas in the U.K. on Channel 4 on Tuesdays at 8 p.m. BT, starting on Sept. 21. The show will then cross the pond later that same week to arrive on Netflix here in the U.S. at 3 a.m ET on Friday morning, Sept. 24. Both editions will keep to a weekly schedule so fans on both sides of the Atlantic can stay in the conversation.

With only a week until the show's premiere overseas, Love Productions also finally revealed this season's crop of bakers. Though that may seem a little last minute, it's pretty par for the course both for GBBO and Netflix's ongoing reality show schedule. The Circle (Netflix's American version of the U.K. hit social media competition series) didn't reveal its Season 3 contestants until about ten days before the show's first batch of episodes dropped. With so many amateurs, it's hard to know who will be good at keeping spoilers under wraps and who will blab at the first reporter who asks, so keeping the cast anonymous until it's nearly go-time is the safest option.

So who are the lucky members of the Bake Off Class of 2021? Let's run down the list of strangers we haven't met whose cakes and puddings will soon be offered up for judgment and a potential Hollywood Handshake.