E yebrows were raised last month when Dame Prue Leith appeared on the catwalk at London Fashion Week looking as if she had been stitched into a heavy-duty bag for garden waste. Vin + Omi’s tight black latex outfit was not the sort of thing Leith would wear in The Great British Bake Off tent, though it might be easier to wipe spillages off it, but the 84-year-old chef says it has brought a boom in her online popularity. “I suffer from ‘follower envy’,” she writes in The Oldie.
“My TV colleagues have trillions of followers on social media, while I plod along with a few thousand.” After her fashion show, her Instagram numbers exploded. “It gives one hell of a buzz,” she said, even if.
