Dame Prue Leith has been in Florida a month by the time w&h catches up with her, enjoying a well-earned breather. Her trip began in New York with a two-day ‘try-out’ of her new one-woman stage show Nothing in Moderation, then, after performances in Los Angeles, Prue and her husband John Playfair drove 4,000 miles to Florida via Texas. The journey took a fortnight.
‘It makes driving to Scotland look like riding to the supermarket,’ laughs The Great British Bake Off judge who is now, she notes, more famous in America than Britain thanks to the show being one of the country’s most streamed series.
‘I can’t walk down a street, even in Florida or Texas, without somebody stopping me and saying, “Are you off the Bake Off show?,”’ says Prue, who turns 83 on 18 February.
She replaced Mary Berry on the Channel 4 programme in 2017, and is joining judge and fellow chef Paul Hollywood, 56, on the US version,. ‘ has been a springboard for
