Kyla Kennaley

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Kyla Kennaley (also Kyla Eaglesham) is a Canadian pastry chef who has been a judge on The Great Canadian Baking Show since series three in 2019. [1]

Kennaley was raised in Ontario, where her parents operated a resort in the Kawarthas. [2] [3] She received a Culinary Management Diploma from Algonquin College and a bachelor's degree from the University of Ottawa. [4] After graduation, she worked as a flight attendant with Air Canada. [2] She opened a pastry shop in Toronto in 2004 and became noted as a baking media personality, serving as "In-House Pastry Expert" on Steven and Chris . [1] In 2019, she and her husband moved to London, where she worked as a talent development manager at the Savoy Hotel. In 2024, she worked as the learning and development manager at the Corinthia Hotel London. As of 2025, she is Head of Learning at Dorchester Collection Academy while also teaching at the George Brown College Centre for Hospitality and Culinary Arts in Toronto and continuing to judge the Great Canadian Baking Show. [5]

References

  1. 1 2 "A fresh batch of amateur bakers enter the tent for season 3 of CBC's The Great Canadian Baking Show". CBC. 14 August 2019.
  2. 1 2 Michelle Brisebois (5 November 2007). "A Tale of Two Bakery Cafes". Bakers Journal.
  3. Richard Bloom (21 October 2004). "Building a future on sweet dreams". The Globe and Mail.
  4. "Kyla Kennaley". CBC. Archived from the original on 17 February 2022. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
  5. Sadar Ahsan (29 September 2023). "The Great Canadian Baking Show's Kyla Kennaley follows in her mother's (and grandmother's) footsteps". CBC.