Vallery Lomas Is the Baking Champion America Never Got to Meet (But You Will Now) — Kitchn Crush

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Vallery Lomas would like to reintroduce herself.

The lawyer-turned-baker-turned-blogger from New York City is the winner of the third season of The Great American Baking Show — but you wouldn't know that because her season never aired. Back in December 2017, her season was cancelled after the premiere, when sexual harassment allegations emerged against one of the season's celebrity judges, Johnny Iuzzini. Immediately following the scandal, all evidence of her victory was effectively scrubbed from ABC's archives, aside from a one-minute-and-thirty-second-long highlight reel.

Vallery hasn't put down her whisk just yet, though. We got a chance to chat with her to talk about why she's still baking, blogging, and betting on herself.

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