The Great British Bake Off has risen to the challenge with a record audience on Channel 4, but at one stage this year Prue Leith feared she wouldn't be part of it.
Amidst the coronavirus pandemic the series was postponed and then some reports suggested judge Prue, who turned 80 in February, might not be on the show as bosses would struggle to get health insurance for her during the pandemic. “I began to feel guilty about being so old and then the Bake Off publicist said ‘Nonsense!’ So I didn’t worry about it, but I would have understood. “I mean, if they’d said, ‘Look, insurance is going to cost a fortune because you’re too old…’ I would have understood it.