diff --git a/.all-contributorsrc b/.all-contributorsrc
index d6f17b50d24..42659a05e3e 100644
--- a/.all-contributorsrc
+++ b/.all-contributorsrc
@@ -2480,6 +2480,15 @@
         "code"
       ]
     },
+    {
+      "login": "wayneadams",
+      "name": "Wayne Adams",
+      "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/15034841?s=400&u=d717e9945910bcc844c5e64cd56d570c6cc4e8e6&v=4",
+      "profile": "https://github.com/wayneadams",
+      "contributions": [
+        "doc"
+      ]
+    },
     {
       "login": "sssilvar",
       "name": "Santiago Smith Silva",
diff --git a/sktime/classification/deep_learning/cnn.py b/sktime/classification/deep_learning/cnn.py
index 042e8b2e81c..9b99877bb73 100644
--- a/sktime/classification/deep_learning/cnn.py
+++ b/sktime/classification/deep_learning/cnn.py
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ class CNNClassifier(BaseDeepClassifier):
         whether to output extra information
     loss            : string, default="mean_squared_error"
         fit parameter for the keras model
-    optimizer       : keras.optimizer, default=keras.optimizers.Adam(),
     metrics         : list of strings, default=["accuracy"],
     activation      : string or a tf callable, default="sigmoid"
         Activation function used in the output linear layer.