Great British Bake Off’s seasoned judge, Prue Leith, has confessed to being ‘more reckless’ now as she feels she’s ‘near the end’. In a candid chat with Bella magazine, the 84-year-old hinted at adopting a more carefree attitude in her older years: “Because I’m so near the end, I’m a bit more reckless now. What’s the worst that can happen?”
Saying that she’s starting to adopt a ‘why not?’ approach to things that look like ‘good fun’, she added: “If I was about to try to get a job on Bake Off I probably wouldn’t walk down a catwalk in Latex with goth make-up on, but now it’s too late. If I want to do it and it sounds like good fun I just think, ‘why not?'”
It was during this year’s London Fashion Week in September that Prue put her ‘why not’ mantra into action, making her debut catwalk appearance. She spoke about her experience of walking the 20 metre long runway for fashion brand Vin + Omi.
Prue said: “Two days ago, I got dressed, well, barely dressed, in a skintight black latex number held together with corset-style red cord. I was here to march down a catwalk in front of 500 members of the press and public.”
Initially feeling overwhelmed, she was encouraged by the crowd’s response: “But in spite of all that, I just loved it. The crowd could not have been kinder, whooping and hollering at the gallant old lady (84 and counting) giving it a go. I’m just such an egotist, lapping up the attention.”
After enjoying success from the very first episode when it hit tv screens over 14 years ago, the show saw a significant shift when Prue stepped into Mary Berry’s shoes in 2017. Despite her fondness for the show, Prue has contemplated an exit, sharing that while she won’t be rushing off, she envisages leaving eventually: “So I won’t leave in a hurry, but I will leave some time because I’m getting ancient.”, reports Wales Online.