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\n \n Celebrity chef Nigella Lawson<\/a> is to join \u201cThe Great British Baking Show\u201d as a judge, replacing the departing Prue Leith<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n \n The move was announced Monday in a statement from Channel 4, which airs the TV baking competition in the United Kingdom.\n <\/p>\n \n It said it was \u201cdelighted to announce\u201d Lawson\u2019s arrival on the show, which is known as \u201cThe Great British Bake Off\u201d in the UK.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cNigella\u2019s expertise, empathy and humour are the perfect ingredients for the Bake Off tent,\u201d the statement reads.\n <\/p>\n \n Lawson said in the same statement that she is \u201cbubbling with excitement\u201d to take up the role, while acknowledging that it is \u201cdaunting to be following in the footsteps of Prue Leith and Mary Berry before her, great dames both.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cThe Great British Bake Off is more than a television programme, it\u2019s a National Treasure \u2013 and it\u2019s a huge honour to be entrusted with it,\u201d she added.\n <\/p>\n \n Leith said she is \u201cthrilled\u201d that Lawson will take over her role as a judge.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cShe\u2019s sassy, fun and she knows her onions \u2014 and her croissants, cake and crumble,\u201d she said in the statement.\n <\/p>\n \n Lawson, age 66, is herself something of a national treasure in the UK, where she is known to many simply as \u201cNigella\u201d and credited with bringing new audiences to the world of cooking shows thanks to her flirtatious manner.\n <\/p>\n \n Born in London, she is the daughter of former Chancellor of the Exchequer \u2014 or finance minister \u2014 Nigel Lawson.\n <\/p>\n \n After studying at Oxford University, she began her career in publishing before moving into media, writing restaurant columns.\n <\/p>\n \n Lawson went on to contribute to various UK newspapers before writing books.\n <\/p>\n \n In 1998, she brought out \u201cHow to Eat,\u201d in which she described how food was one of her earliest loves.\n <\/p>\n \n Lawson went on to release a string of other successful cookbooks as well as to host numerous cooking shows, such as \u201cNigella Bites.\u201d She was also a judge on the ABC show \u201cThe Taste.\u201d\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" London \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 Celebrity chef Nigella Lawson is to join \u201cThe Great British Baking Show\u201d as a judge, replacing the departing Prue Leith. The move was announced Monday in a statement from Channel 4, which airs the TV baking competition in the United Kingdom. It said it was \u201cdelighted to announce\u201d Lawson\u2019s arrival on the show, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2251142,"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":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2251141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Nigella-Lawson-to-replace-Prue-Leith-on-\u2018The-Great-British.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251141","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=2251141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2251143,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251141\/revisions\/2251143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2251142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2251141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2251141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2251141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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