{"id":2244339,"date":"2026-01-21T18:57:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T18:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2244339"},"modified":"2026-01-21T18:57:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T18:57:47","slug":"great-british-bake-off-s-prue-leith-exits-after-9-years-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/great-british-bake-off-s-prue-leith-exits-after-9-years-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Great British Bake Off\u00a0\u2018s Prue Leith Exits After 9 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"segment-text-only\">\n<p>The <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1424560\/great-british-baking-show-secrets-revealed?query=british%20baking\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\">Great British Bake Off<\/a> is preparing for a new recipe.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1389800\/why-prue-leith-decided-to-publicly-reveal-13-year-affair-with-husband-of-her-moms-best-friend?query=prue%20leith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Prue Leith<\/strong><\/a>\u2014who served as a judge\u00a0alongside <strong>Paul Hollywood <\/strong>since the show moved to Channel 4 from BBC in 2017\u2014announced she\u2019s leaving the series after nine seasons, during which time she judged a whopping 400 challenges.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBake Off\u00a0has been a fabulous part of my life,\u201d she wrote in her <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DTxw7KejdI_\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\">Jan. 21 Instagram post<\/a>, noting she\u2019ll miss working alongside Paul and hosts <strong>Alison Hammond <\/strong>and <strong>Noel Fielding<\/strong>. \u201cBut now feels like the right time to step back (I\u2019m 86 for goodness sake!), there\u2019s so much I\u2019d like to do, not least spend summers enjoying my garden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for who might take her place alongside Paul, Prue\u2014who had replaced <strong>Mary Berry<\/strong>\u2014knows the series will remain just as sweet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhoever joins the team, I\u2019m sure they\u2019ll love it as much as I have,\u201d she concluded. \u201cI feel very lucky to have been part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Soon after Prue\u2019s announcement, not only was her comment section filled with well wishes from bakers who had competed in the famed tent, but Noel also penned a moving send off.<\/p>\n<\/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 www.eonline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great British Bake Off is preparing for a new recipe. Prue Leith\u2014who served as a judge\u00a0alongside Paul Hollywood since the show moved to Channel 4 from BBC in 2017\u2014announced she\u2019s leaving the series after nine seasons, during which time she judged a whopping 400 challenges.\u00a0 \u201cBake Off\u00a0has been a fabulous part of my life,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2244343,"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":[25173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2244339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769021866_Great-British-Bake-Off-\u2018s-Prue-Leith-Exits-After-9-Years.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244339","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=2244339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2244344,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244339\/revisions\/2244344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2244343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2244339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2244339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2244339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}