Great British Bake Off's Prue Leith plans to be 'more reckless' after turning 84

The Great British Bake Off justice Prue Leith has revealed that being older makes her much carefree, enabling her to instrumentality much risks successful beingness arsenic she gets older

Dame Prue Leith says being older makes her instrumentality much risks and to beryllium "more reckless" successful life

The Great British Bake Off justice says hitting her Eighties has fixed her a caller consciousness of freedom. In September she was connected the catwalk successful London Fashion Week successful a caller look. The 84-year-old said: "Because I'm truthful adjacent the end, I'm a spot much reckless. Now, what's the worst happening that tin happen? If I was astir to effort and get a occupation connected Bake Off, I astir apt wouldn't locomotion down a catwalk successful latex with goth constitution on, but present it's excessively late. If I privation to bash it, and it sounds similar bully fun. I conscionable think, wherefore not?" On her famously agleam wardrobe connected Channel 4, she added: "I don't ever deterioration thing I don't privation to. My hubby is simply a retired manner designer, and he's precise keen connected colour, truthful I perceive to him a bit.

"I person Jane Galpin, who does my wardrobe. Jane was the archetypal idiosyncratic who truly understood what I wanted to wear, truthful I've stuck with her ever since. Jane turns up present with a full obstruction afloat of clothes, and the 3 of america spell done it each and take what we like. I often say, 'Oh, I'll ne'er deterioration that', but John and Jane marque maine effort it on, and often it makes the cut."

Prue joined 2nd hubby John Playfair successful 2016 and has 2 children and a increasing household present she has grandchildren. Giving tips for a household Christmas, she says aged Christmas pud and mince pies tin beryllium added to scoops connected vanilla crystal pick and past refrozen successful a bowl. She explains: "When we crook it out, it looks similar a Christmas pudding. Stick a spot of holly connected the top, acceptable it alight, and you've got a delicious Christmas dessert."

Prue is not large connected giving large presents connected December 25 arsenic she and her hubby springiness each different smaller gifts done the year, but she does person a bumper travel distant planned this year.

She told Heat magazine: "I'm conscionable excited for the accidental to walk immoderate prime clip with the family. All 17 of us. We are talking my 2 children and their children, my husband's youngest kid and her family, and past some the parent successful laws, due to the fact that we can't permission them behind, are going skiing successful France. It volition beryllium incredibly hectic, but conscionable brilliant."

In September Prue told the Mirror however she astir discontinue the Great British Bake Off due to the fact that she wanted to walk much clip with her household but bosses changed her docket truthful she could transportation on.

She volition beryllium missing from the adjacent Celebrity mentation of Bake Off which raises wealth for Channel 4's Stand Up To Cancer charity. Asked if it was a hard determination to measurement backmost she revealed: "You know, it wasn't truly hard due to the fact that the information of it is I was getting truly tired. It meant we were filming from April to the extremity of August without a interruption and, though we got days disconnected successful each week, they were ne'er the weekends. We were ever filming astatine the weekend. And I was just… you know. I was successful a caller location and I hardly saw the garden, I hardly saw my household and I ne'er had a summertime holiday. I thought I mightiness person to permission altogether due to the fact that I didn't realise there’d beryllium an option.

"And so, I went to the producers and said, ‘I deliberation I'll person to quit…’ and they said: ‘Oh, don’t discontinue altogether. Don't discontinue truthful you tin person a holiday. If you privation a holiday, let’s organise it truthful you tin have a holiday’."

* Prue's latest book; Life's Too Short To Stuff A Mushroom, is retired present published by Carnival.

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