After judging bakes alongside Paul Hollywood for almost a decade, Dame Prue Leith has announced she has left The Great British Bake Off.
Dame Prue Leith decided to make a “selfish” decision after admitting that she “doesn’t have much time left”. It came less than a year before the 86-year-old decided to quit The Great British Bake Off after nine years as a judge.
Prue made the announcement on social media, expressing her gratitude for having “so many more things” to do. Prue stated in a statement from April last year that she wanted to “use her current circumstances to spend more time enjoying life.”
She said she wanted to spend more time travelling and with her family. She shared children Danny Kruger and Li-Da Kruger with her first husband, Rayne, who died in 2002. She has five grandchildren.
She told Vanessa Feltz about Vanessa that she wanted to live life to the full because she was 85 and had no time to waste.
What has really changed in the last few years is my desire to spend more time with my grandchildren and other really selfish things like that.
“I enjoy writing, and it’s always because I enjoy it, whereas most of what I do is because I enjoy it.” I’m not a martyr, but I just thought I would do the things I would never be able to do if I didn’t right away.
“This year, for the first time, I had a holiday during the summer, because for eight years I’ve been filming Bake Off all summer so I said to them, the producers, ‘I think I better stop because I need a summer holiday, I want to go and visit Turkmenistan, and Afghanistan’.”
Close friend Lady Caroline Waldegrave replaced Prue with a step back from the celebrity edition of the show. The best vacation I’ve ever had was in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, according to Prue.
In a statement on Instagram on Wednesday, Prue, who joined Bake Off as a judge alongside Paul Hollywood in 2016, confirmed she was leaving the show. During her time there she has worked with current presenters Noel Fielding and Alison Hammond as well as previous hosts Sandi Toksvig and Matt Lucas.
She said: “Bake Off has been a fabulous part of my life for the last nine years, I have genuinely loved it and I’m sure I’ll miss working with my fellow judge Paul, Alison and Noel and the teams at Love Productions and Channel 4 .
“But it seems appropriate to take a step back now (for goodness sake, I’m 86)!” I’d like to do a lot of things, not the least of which is spend my summers admiring my garden.
Whoever joins the team, she added, is certain to adore it just as much as I do. I consider myself very fortunate to have participated in it.
Source: Mirror
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