Who’s new Celebrity Bake Off judge Caroline Waldegrave replacing Prue Leith?

After 8 years judging Great British Bake Off, Dame Prue Leith is being replaced connected the Celebrity spin-off.

First joining the BBC baking competition successful 2017, replacing Mary Berry, Dame Prue revealed past twelvemonth she was taking a measurement back to research different passions.

Although she volition inactive look successful the mean UK and US versions, this week it was announced her long-time person Lady Caroline Waldegrave OBE would beryllium stepping into her relation on the Celebrity Bake Off special.

‘I’m getting a spot aged and determination are places I privation to spell to and different things I privation to do,’ Prue said astir wanting to get immoderate clip disconnected successful summertime arsenic the Bake Off filming docket is usually rather extensive.

Alongside Paul Hollywood, Lady Caroline, a erstwhile Managing Director and co-owner of Leiths School of Food and Wine, volition beryllium taking connected the enviable task of tasting the delicious treats created by the bakers.

Here’s everything we cognize astir her earlier the amusement returns aboriginal this year.

Is Prue Leith leaving Bake Off?

In March past twelvemonth Dame Prue, 84, confirmed she would beryllium taking immoderate clip disconnected from the personage mentation of Bake Off.

‘I’m not doing this twelvemonth is the personage 1 and it’s chiefly due to the fact that these things are filmed back-to-back the full mode done the summer,’ she explained connected This Morning.

‘You commencement successful April, and you extremity successful August and honestly, you get nary clip off. And so, I’m getting a spot aged and determination are places I privation to spell to and different things I privation to do.’

She went connected to clarify she had nary volition of stepping down from the archetypal bid oregon the US spin-off The Great American Baking Show.

In a connection to Metro, Dame Prue said she ‘absolutely loves moving connected Bake Off and americium looking guardant to filming the adjacent bid and gathering our caller bakers’.

‘I americium lone stepping backmost from the Celebrity series, which is conscionable a question of the filming committedness progressive arsenic we marque these shows back-to-back,’ she added.

Who is the replacement Caroline Waldegrave?

Caroline Waldegrave, Lady Waldegrave of North Hill, 72, is the erstwhile managing manager of Leiths School of Food and Wine, 1 of the astir prestigious and respected cookery schools successful the country

She purchased the concern with erstwhile British Telecom Chairman and Chairman of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Sir Christopher Bland, successful 1994.

But aft 33 years, successful 2009 she retired and became a non-executive manager connected the committee and was besides president of the Guild of Food Writers for respective years.

Since then, she’s ‘focused connected imparting her wealthiness of cookery knowledge’ astatine Dudwell School, which is located connected the tract of her household home, Dudwell Field Farm. She’s besides a manager of the family’s integrated dairy farm.

Over the years Lady Caroline has appeared connected TV shows including Chef School, MasterChef and Tricks of the Trade.

She is besides the writer of respective navigator books, including Leith’s Cookery Bible, Cookery Course and Cookery School books (co-written with Dame Prue), Leith’s Easy Dinner Parties (co-written with Puff Fairclough and Janey Orr), Leith’s Fish Bible (co-written with CJ Jackson), The Healthy Gourmet, and the Low Fat Gourmet.

Lady Caroline is simply a long-time person and workfellow of Dame Prue, archetypal gathering erstwhile she applied for a occupation astatine the Bake Off judge’s catering institution successful the 1970s.

She was awarded an OBE successful 2000 for services to the UK catering industry.

When her Bake Off relation was announced, she wrote connected Instagram this week: ‘The quality is out! I’m thrilled to denote that I volition beryllium 1 of the judges for this bid @britishbakeoff @su2cuk.’

The celebrated faces appearing connected this year’s personage peculiar includes the creator of Chicken Shop Date Amelia Dimoldenberg, Good Morning Britain big Kate Garraway, presenter Sarah Beeny , Loose Women’s Gloria Hunniford OBE and vigor presenter Roman Kemp.

Who is Caroline Waldegrave’s husband?

Lady Caroline has been joined to erstwhile Tory Cabinet curate and present beingness adjacent Lord William Waldegrave successful 1975.

The brace stock 4 children – Katie, Liza, Jamie and Harriet.

The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer volition instrumentality to Channel 4 successful outpouring 2025.

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