Prue Leith reveals she tried to quit The Great British Bake Off after the filming schedule became too intense By Laura Parkin For Mailonline Published: 00:41, 17 September 2024 | Updated: 00:44, 17 September 2024 e-mail View comments Prue Leith has revealed she tried to quit The Great British Bake Off but was talked into staying by the show's producers. The restaurateur, 84, has been a judge on the cooking competition since she replaced Mary Berry 2016. And as the show gears up to return for its fifteenth series next week , Prue admitted she almost didn't come back after the intense filming schedule got too much.
She recalled how tired she became after being on set from April until the end of August with no weekends off. Speaking in an interview with The Mirror , Prue explained: 'I was in a new house and I hardly saw the garden, I hardly saw my family and I never had a summer holiday.' Prue Leith has revealed she tried to quit The Great British Bake Off but was talked into staying by the show's producers (pictured in April) The restaurateur, 84, has been a judge on the cooking competition since she replaced Mary Berry 2016 (pictured with Paul Hollywood, Alison Hammond and Noel Fielding) In a bid to get her to stay the shows producers agreed to change the filming, allowing her to have more time off.
'So, I got what I wanted, which is to do less. I'm so grateful to Love Productions because they've been very accommodating,' she added. Prue previously admitted that she almost did.