22 November 2023 , 23:17
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Prue Leith says she has a strict approach to eating while working on the Great British Bake Off in order to ensure she doesn’t gain weight - she sticks to a diet of cake and wine.
The 83-year-old TV star has been a judge on the Channel 4 cookery contest since 2017 and admitted in the past that she gained a stone in weight while judging the 2019 contestants. But now she claims she has uncovered the perfect way to balance her sweet treat sampling day job while also ensuring she keeps trim.
The star says that she limits the amount of cake she eats while judging the contestants on the Channel 4 show - and eats even less while not working on the show. And at the end of the day, the TV judge washes everything down with a nice glass of wine - which she admits might not be too healthy.
Sharing her diet tips with a podcast, Prue said: “OK, people are all making the same thing but, if you think about it, all I have to do is eat a teaspoon of it. In a cake, you can get the filling, the icing and the sponge in one teaspoon.”
Prue Leith says she only eats cake and drinks wine when filming Bake Off - but still loses weight (Getty Images)And explaining that small bites help her to avoid gaining a huge amount, she also said she avoids eating anything else for the first half of the day. Prue said: “I don’t eat anything else. I don’t eat lunch and I don’t eat breakfast.”
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She went on to suggest her co-stars also try not to overindulge while featuring on the shoe. Pure said: “If you watch Paul, he never has more than one mouthful. I normally end up with two.
“When it comes to the evening, what I can’t forgo is a couple of glasses of wine. So my diet for several weeks is basically cake and alcohol."
Prue is, however, aware that her diet of cake and wine is unlikely to be endorsed by medical experts as a healthy way to eat and drink every day. She warned: “Probably not ideal, but it’s nice.”
In another recent candid interview, Prue confessed that her Michelin Star restaurant, the Notting Hill based Leith’s, served below par food when it was open for business from 1969 until 1995. She told My London: “When I see the food I was serving 30 years ago, it is so lumpy and clumsy and ugly and looks horrible. I can’t believe it.
“It’s extraordinary how food has improved, especially the look of food. I’m very pleased that ‘posh’ food has gotten simpler. There was a horrible stage about ten years ago where chefs couldn’t resist putting everything on to their plates.
“Smudges of this and dots of that, a powder of this, a cappuccino of that, and a lollipop of some parmesan nonsense. It was just too many flavours, so I love what’s happening now.”