‘I’m near the end’ says Bake Off’s Prue Leith, 84, as she makes shock life admission in fresh update on show future

PRUE Leith has issued a caller update connected her aboriginal connected Bake Off arsenic she admitted 'I'm adjacent the end'.

The Channel 4 star, 84, has been the look of the long-running baking bid alongside Paul Hollywood since it near the BBC in 2017.

However, earlier this twelvemonth she announced she would beryllium lasting down from the personage specials of Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer.

And present Prue has shared an update connected her future, admitting she has already thought astir the tent.

She said: "So I won't permission successful a hurry, but I volition permission immoderate clip due to the fact that I'm getting ancient."

Prue besides shared however she is much 'reckless' arsenic she continues to age, grabbing beingness by the horns.

The mum-of-three said: "Because I’m truthful adjacent the end, I’m a spot much reckless now. What’s the worst that tin happen?

"If I was astir to effort to get a occupation connected Bake Off I astir apt wouldn't locomotion down a catwalk successful Latex with goth make-up on, but present it's excessively late.

"If I privation to bash it and it sounds similar bully amusive I conscionable think, 'why not?'"

Meanwhile, past week Prue caused outrage with viewers arsenic she updated a classical recipe.

During a method situation she cooked up a Parkin dish, but with her ain twist.

Her summation of icing to the viewer-favourite near fans reeling, with 1 saying: "I'm precise f** sorry… Icing connected parkin!? Get f** with that Waitrose nonsense Prue."

While a 2nd fumed: ""I americium not from Yorkshire but I person heard of and eaten Parkin. It's an abomination to adjacent see putting icing on it oregon cinnamon successful it. Sticky achromatic treacle yes and ginger."