Dame Prue Leith thought she would be dead by 82 .
Dame Prue Leith thought she would be dead by 82
The chef-turned-TV star - who is known for her role as a judge on Channel 4's 'The Great British Bake Off' - celebrated her 82nd birthday earlier this year and thinks it is "amazing" that people are still interested in her because she thought she would be "under the sod" by now.
She said: "It’s extraordinary. I thought I’d be under the sod by the time I was 82. It’s wonderful that people still want to employ me and people are still interested in me. But what I’m most pleased about is that I still have the energy and enthusiasm to do it all."
The former 'Great British Menu' star - who was married to property developer and author Rayne Kruger from 1974 until his death in 2002 and has son Danny , 47, and adoptive daughter Li-Da, 46, with him - explained that despite initially wanting to give up work when she became a mother, she soon decided she "had to" resume her career.
She told Good Housekeeping Magazine: "When I had my first child, Daniel, I took four months off and I loved it. You have to do what’s right for you, but it doesn’t come without some feeling that you’ve not got it quite right because you’re making trade-offs all the time."
Meanwhile, Prue tied the knot with retired fashion designer John Playfair in 2016 and admitted that these days she enjoys a "pub crawl" with her husband while riding on the back of his Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
She said: "His children call it his mobility scooter because it has two wheels at the back, so it can’t turn over – but I love it! We go pub-crawling around the Cotswolds, I do the drinking because I’m on the back, and it’s the loveliest.”
Read the full interview with Prue Leith in the October 2022 issue of Good Housekeeping, on sale the 31st August.
It is available in all supermarkets and online at MagsDirect.
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