{"id":2244261,"date":"2026-01-21T18:12:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T18:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2244261"},"modified":"2026-01-21T18:12:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T18:12:18","slug":"prue-leith-exits-great-british-baking-show-after-9-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/prue-leith-exits-great-british-baking-show-after-9-seasons\/","title":{"rendered":"Prue Leith exits &#8216;Great British Baking Show&#8217; after 9 seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F01%2FComp-Pure-Leith.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>She\u2019s baking viewers\u2019 hearts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Prue Leith has announced her exit from \u201cGreat British Baking Show\u201d after nine seasons.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter nine series and judging more than 400 challenges, I have decided to step down as a judge on The Great British Bake Off,\u201d Leith wrote in an <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DTxw7KejdI_\">Instagram post<\/a> on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The chef, who is also a Dame, added,\u00a0\u201cBake Off has been a fabulous part of my life for the last nine years, I have genuinely loved it and I\u2019m sure I\u2019ll miss working with my fellow judge Paul, Alison and Noel and the teams at Love Productions and Channel 4.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Prue Leith, judge Paul Hollywood, contestant Alice Fevronia, on \u201cSemi-Final: Patisserie Week\u201d in Season 10.  <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Channel Four\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Prue Leith on \u201cThis Morning\u201d on Jan. 13, 2026.  <span class=\"credit\">Ken McKay\/ITV \/ Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Leith, 86, joined the show as a judge in Season 8, working with fellow judge Paul Hollywood, 59, and host Noel Fielding. Comedian Alison Hammond joined as a host in 2023. At the time, Leith replaced judge Mary Berry. Her exit follows Season 16.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She added that it feels like \u201cthe right time\u201d for her to step away, noting, \u201cI\u2019m 86 for goodness sake!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The chef and novelist said that she feels\u00a0\u201clucky\u201d to have been a part of the show and said that whoever replaces her, \u201cI\u2019m sure they\u2019ll love it as much as I have.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Prue Leith on \u201cThe Great British Baking Show.\u201d  <span class=\"credit\">Mark Bourdillon<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Noel Fielding, Prue Leith, Alison Hammond and Paul Hollywood on \u201cThe Great British Bake Off.\u201d  <span class=\"credit\">Mark Bourdillon<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Prue Leith, co-host Noel Fielding, co-host Alison Hammond, judge Paul Hollywood on \u201cThe Great British Baking Show\u201d in 2024.  <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Netflix\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hollywood commented on her post with a heart and a crying emoji.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The show\u2019s official Instagram account <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DTxw0NCCMoe\/\">shared a post<\/a> that read, \u201cOur wonderful Prue has decided to step away from judging Bake Off. From joyful judging to colourful fits to accidental innuendoes, you are simply the best and will be so missed. Please join us in wishing Prue the very best and thanking her for nine brilliant years in the Tent.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hollywood commented on the show\u2019s post, writing, \u201cIt\u2019s been incredible working with you Prue, you are magnificent and we have had such a laugh, I will see you soon \u2026. I\u2019ll cook.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Regarding her plans for the future, she said, \u201cThere\u2019s so much I\u2019d like to do, not least spend summers enjoying my garden.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She\u2019s baking viewers\u2019 hearts.\u00a0 Prue Leith has announced her exit from \u201cGreat British Baking Show\u201d after nine seasons.\u00a0 \u201cAfter nine series and judging more than 400 challenges, I have decided to step down as a judge on The Great British Bake Off,\u201d Leith wrote in an Instagram post on Wednesday.\u00a0 The chef, who is also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2244262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[382045,304629,320071,21741,349595,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2244261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-baking","tag-channel-4","tag-cooking-shows","tag-entertainment","tag-paul-hollywood","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Prue-Leith-exits-Great-British-Baking-Show-after-9-seasons.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2244261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2244263,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244261\/revisions\/2244263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2244262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2244261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2244261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2244261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}