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Former Bake Off star Kim-Joy tells KATIE WRIGHT about her love of cats and the power of baking for your mental health

- KATIE WRIGHT

IT’S been an eventful few months for former Great British Bake Off contestant Kim-Joy, who got engaged last summer and married shortly after in a spontaneous ceremony in Las Vegas.

“I didn’t really want to do the whole engagement thing, because we’d already talked about it, so I thought we were just going to get married,” says Kim-Joy, whose partner of nine years, Nabil Homsi, popped the question in their kitchen. “He kept asking where my favourite place is, and I kept saying the kitchen... now he feels like it’s some sort of weird sexist thing, but I’m like, ‘No! That’s what I want!”’

Leaving everything to the last minute, while on holiday in America the couple headed to a chapel on the Vegas Strip and tied the knot in front of an Elvis impersonator, the beaming bride donning a bright orange mini dress for the occasion.

Returning home to Leeds, the newlyweds continued to renovate their house, while Kim-Joy put the finishing touches to her debut graphic novel – more later – and her latest recipe book.