Ruby Bhogal Biography
Ruby Bhogal is best known as The Great British Bake Off 2018 finalist. She has also appeared on ITV’s This Morning and is now a regular chef on Channel 4’s hit daytime show Steph’s Packed Lunch. Ruby hosted the Christmas Kitchen at the BBC Good Food Show in the Winter of 2023 and has also written food columns and recipes for GQ online, The Times, and Waitrose Magazine whilst also being a regular contributor to the online channel ‘Tastemade’.
Ruby Bhogal Age
Bhogal is 34 years old as of January 2024. She was born on October 8, 1989, in London, England. Her birth sign is Libra.
Ruby Bhogal Height
She stands at a height of 5 feet 7 inches.
Ruby Bhogal Nationality
She holds British nationality.
Ruby Bhogal Education
Bhogal graduated from Liverpool John Moores University with a Master’s in Architecture.
Ruby Bhogal Parents
Ruby is the daughter of Kelly Bhogal. In 2018, her mother Kelly launched her own online Indian cooking channel. She created Instagram and Twitter accounts called Cooking with Aunty in August 2018 and was due to start a YouTube channel in the coming weeks. Her first post read: “Hello everyone! Welcome to my kitchen! I am Aunty Kelly and every Saturday I will be releasing a new video on my YouTube channel, teaching you how to create delicious home-cooked Punjabi food, perfect if you are a beginner in the Indian kitchen!”
Ruby Bhogal Husband/Partner
Ruby is not married. However, she is engaged to her long-term partner James Stewart, a BBC presenter. Ruby confirmed her engagement in January 2024 but admitted the moment was ruined because she had food poisoning. She accepted the proposal after Stewart got down on a bent knee during a recent trip to New York.
Taking to Instagram on Monday morning, Ruby revealed he asked for her hand in marriage more than three weeks ago, but opted to tell each of her family members before making the engagement public.
She wrote: “Have deceptively been hiding my hand in the recent vids because it’s taken me about 3 weeks to tell most of my family whilst it took James a whole 3 minutes.”
But Ruby, a Bake Off finalist in 2018, was forced to cut the proposal short because she was stricken with a sudden bout of sickness.
She added: “I wish we had a romantic story to go alongside it but food poisoning managed to kick in right about 5 mins before he was about propose and I was about to have a bridesmaid moment running across the street… so yay for love and yay for uncooked chicken in NYC.
“I love this life (time to start planning a big FAT Indian wedding but all I’m thinking about is the CAKE am I right?!).”
Ruby Bhogal The Great British Bake Off
Ruby hosted the Christmas Kitchen at the BBC Good Food Show in the Winter of 2023. She first appeared on the screens in 2018 as a contestant on Channel 4’s hugely popular series The Great British Bake Off. Having only been baking for a year before appearing on the show, Ruby made it to the final and took the show by storm with her natural talent for baking and cooking as well as her wit, humor, and style.
Ruby has since gone on to appear on ITV’s This Morning and is now a regular chef on Channel 4’s hit daytime show Steph’s Packed Lunch. She has written food columns and recipes for GQ online, The Times, and Waitrose Magazine whilst also being a regular contributor to the online channel ‘Tastemade’. Her recipe flair and technique pay homage to her Indian roots whilst adding a twist of modern British cuisine. Ruby is passionate about flavors and recipes from her heritage and around the world and loves how something as simple as food can bring cultures and communities together. She is delighted to announce that her debut cookbook will be published by Pavilion in 2024.
Alongside her growing broadcasting career, Ruby has amassed a strong social media following and regularly works with high-profile brands, developing bespoke recipes and creating content for them. These include Nespresso, Manchester Utd, Häagen-Dazs, EE, Thermomix, and Macallan whiskey to name but a few. She has also appeared at several events hosting stages and leading live demos including The Big Feastival, BBC Good Food, Pub in the Park, and Soho House.
This year is set to be another exciting year of growth for Ruby with the launch of her new company Baked by Rubes, selling vegan cookies, bakeware, and more.
Ruby Bhogal Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $5 million.
