Dame Prue Leith has admitted the subsequent collection of ‘The Nice British Bake Off’ could also be her final.
The 85-year-old meals skilled took over from Dame Mary Berry as choose alongside Paul Hollywood when the programme moved from BBC One to Channel 4 in 2017 however she does not understand how for much longer she is going to proceed as she’s beginning to “really feel a bit older” and does not wish to outstay her welcome.
She advised the Mail on Sunday newspaper: “I am doing this yr’s ‘Bake Off’, and I do not know if this will likely be my final. I’ve obtained to cease a while, so I would cease subsequent yr.
“I assumed I’d simply see how I am going this yr, as a result of I positively really feel a bit older this yr than I did final yr.
“Issues like getting out of a chair takes me longer than it used to. I do not like massive steps with out a handrail. None of these items frightened me two years in the past – I may run upstairs – and so I am very eager to depart ‘Bake Off’ earlier than I am requested to depart.”
Nonetheless, Prue’s choice is not set in stone.
She added: “However alternatively, I actually get pleasure from it.”
Prue beforehand admitted she did not count on to land the ‘Bake Off’ job as she felt producers would need a choose who “ticked all the range bins”.
Talking on the ‘Sliding Doorways’ podcast, she stated: “I simply jumped at it. I had begun to consider it, as soon as I knew Mary Berry was not going to go on. I assumed, ‘Oh, I’d love that job’, however I dismissed the thought.
“I assumed, ‘They’ll get somebody youthful, somebody extra . . . in all probability a younger Asian chef or one thing, that may tick all the range bins and stuff’. However no, they selected me.”
However Prue was conscious she had the proper credentials for the job.
She defined: “If you consider my previous profession, I’d had 11 years sitting at [BBC Two cooking contest] the ‘Nice British Menu’ as a choose and each plate has about ten tastes on it — it makes ‘Bake Off’ look actually easy.
“With cake, with one spoonful, you may get the icing, the filling and the crumb.
“I knew all the highest cooks, I had a Michelin restaurant of my very own so I knew that degree of cooking very properly.”
