Dame Prue Leith has revealed she doesn’t want to still be on The Great British Bake Off in her 90s. “Oh God no!” said the presenter, chef and restaurateur, who turns 85 this February. Due to the filming schedule of the popular Channel 4 programme, she said she “hadn’t had a summer holiday for seven years, so I actually suggested to them that I stopped”.
Instead, she was persuaded to drop the Celebrity Bake Off edition and stick with the regular show a little longer, as a judge alongside Paul Hollywood . “They’ve also really kindly rearranged the schedule. We all get more weekends off now and we all get a chunk of the summer off,” she revealed.
Leith, who opened her first Michelin-star restaurant in London in 1969 and founded Leiths School of Food and Wine in 1975, said of the show: “One of these fine days I’ll have to give it up and I will really miss it. “Paul [Hollywood] and I don’t see each other when we’re not on Bake Off because he lives wildly the other side of London, it’s just too difficult. But we do see each other a lot obviously during Bake Off , we will do things together, he’ll come to my house, I’ll come to his house.
But I know that when I leave Bake Off – if I leave before him – we probably won’t see each other.” Unlike the contestants, she revealed she has quite a lot of downtime during Bake Off filming. “I’m mostly sitting around waiting for the bakers.
So I usually do something else, I’ve written a lot of book.
