26-04-2025
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Prue Leith's husband shares home life update as she confesses 'I haven't got much longer'
Prue Leith's husband shares home life update as she confesses 'I haven't got much longer'
Great British Bake Off's Dame Prue Leith recently admitted she 'can't do everything' she would like to do as she opened up about how she likes to spend time with husband John Playfair
Prue Leith's husband has shared an insight into their home life
(Image: Dave Benett,for The National Portrait Gallery )
Dame Prue Leith's husband John Playfair shared a heartfelt home life update after the broadcaster admitted she 'hasn't got much time left'.
Prue, 85, met fashion designer John Playfair at a friend's house when she was travelling back home from Yorkshire. She says she was invited in for a drink and was met with two men, including John, and her friend's sister.
The Great British Bake Off star told Loose Women she 'felt like a gooseberry' and decided to make her exit. John however turned up at her house the next day, having felt an 'instant attraction' to the TV star.
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Prue and second husband John married in 2016. Speaking to the TV Times, John shared an insight into their marriage, he said: 'We laugh all day long.
'Prue is divinely naughty and very funny. We go everywhere together. She's wonderful company.'
Author Prue Leith with her husband John Playfair
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One thing the couple do enjoy doing together is gardening. Although John admits they have had to adapt their garden to their advancing years.
He added: 'Because of our age, Prue and I plant everything in troughs or buckets so we're not having to bend and tend to things at ground level.'
Prue has also previously admitted she's 'not able to do everything' she would like when out in the garden. It came after she recently invested in a new potting shed and greenhouse to fill with plants from her native South Africa.
Speaking to the Telegraph, Prue said: 'I like propagating because my back hurts and I can do it on a high stool. I'm not as hands-on as I'd like because I'm no longer able to be. I find it vaguely surprising I can't do certain things any longer.'
Octogenarian Prue, who joined Bake Off in 2017, recently explained she feared she is nearing the end of her life. It has left her with the desire to spend more time with John.
Prue is a judge on Channel 4's The Great British Bake Off
(Image: Channel 4/Love Productions/Mark Bourdillon )
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Speaking on The Travel Diaries podcast with Holly Rubenstein, Prue said: "I haven't got much longer, I'm 85, I want to spend as much time as I can with him."
Prue now says she likes to travel with John for work. She added: "And so, if we are filming abroad, or like next week, we're going to New York, because I've got to publicise the American baking show, then I'm now old enough for my agent to say 'I'm sorry, but she has to ring her husband, because she's 85, she needs someone to carry the bags' she doesn't quite say 'she needs a carer' but it's pretty close.'
The TV star will return to screens with Prue Leith's Cotswold Kitchen at 11.40am today (April 26) on ITV One. She will be joined by comedian Ruby Wax cooking a warm salad with beef as well as a tofu version.
