‘Great British Bake Off’ winner Sophie Faldo is heading back to the Army.
The 34-year-old former British Army officer – who was the winner of the eighth series of the hit show – is planning to return to working for the military, because she loves being on tour.
Sophie told The Sun’s Bizarre TV column: "It is similar to the job that I have done in the past and it involves dealing with different kinds of artillery.
"I know it sounds really mad but actually I don’t like not going on tour.
"Now I want to go out on tour again and the job that I want to go into is quite frontline and back in Afghanistan, so I hope that I will get it."
The brunette previously served in Helmand Province in 2009 and 2010 as a captain in the Royal Artillery and has applied to resume the role that she left in 2015.
After leaving the Army, she worked as a personal trainer, taught military boot camps, and was training to be a stuntwoman before her boyfriend David urged her to apply for ‘The Great British Bake Off’.
Sophie admitted that winning ‘Bake Off’ helped her very little financially as the show does not given its winner a cash prize.
She said: "I did rely on my other half a bit and it was tough. It was not a typical year – far from it."
However, Sophie also previously admitted she could have missed out on winning ‘The Great British Bake Off’ altogether as both she and one of the runners up, Steven Carter-Bailey, missed the original application deadline.
She said: "I actually missed the deadline.
"I said, ‘Oh well, I wasn’t going to get picked anyway,’ and then they extended the deadline. I think Steven missed it too."
Sophie Faldo wants to return to the Army
