Dame Prue Leith has plans to “crack America” at 82.
Dame Prue Leith wants to make it in America
The 'Great British Bake Off’ judge has two “one women shows” scheduled across the pond - in Los Angeles and New York - after she and her co-star Paul Hollywood, 56, made a US edition of the Channel 4 baking competition, which has been won by Nadiya Hussain, Nancy Birtwhistle and most recently by Giuseppe Dell'Anno.
She told the Daily Mirror newspaper:"I’m going to try out one-woman shows in Los Angeles and New York and then I’m going to do the same in England in Bath and Leamington Spa.
“And if they work, then next year I’ll do two tours, one in the spring and one in the autumn round England and around America.”
Along with the tour, Prue also has other projects lined up, such as selling her new cookbook ‘Bliss on Toast’, which she hopes will be a great stocking stuffer.
She added: “I’ll be flogging my two books, which are coming out at Christmas. One is a recipe book called Bliss on Toast. And the other is an updated biography.”
While she has these plans raring to go, Paul reflected on the special edge his surname gets him in America, which poses a lot of questions.
He said: “That’s the first question they ask. Is it your real name? I say: ‘Yes, it is. It’s an Irish name and it’s been around a bit longer than Hollywood has in California.’ And they say, ‘Oh my God, it’s such a great name.’ It is."
Paul - who is known best of all for his bread recipes - finds getting tagged on social media by some of the biggest names in the entertainment industry “weird”.
He said: “When you see things like the actress Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds’ wife, baking on Instagram and cc-ing me and saying: ‘I wish I could get a handshake from Paul…’ You’re thinking: ‘My God, this is weird.’”
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