{"id":2251898,"date":"2026-01-26T22:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T22:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2251898"},"modified":"2026-01-26T22:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T22:55:10","slug":"great-british-baking-show-hosts-contestants-react-to-nigella-lawson-replacing-prue-leith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/great-british-baking-show-hosts-contestants-react-to-nigella-lawson-replacing-prue-leith\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Great British Baking Show\u2019 Hosts & Contestants React to Nigella Lawson Replacing Prue Leith"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The past and present stars of The Great British Baking Show<\/a> (a.k.a. The Great British Bake Off<\/a>) are weighing in on the show\u2019s brand-new judge. The U.K. baking competition series confirmed on Monday, January 26, that Nigella Lawson<\/a> will be taking over Prue Leith<\/a>\u2018s role as Paul Hollywood<\/a>\u2018s co-judge on the show. The news comes less than a week after Leith announced she was stepping down from the series after nine years. \u201cI\u2019m uncharacteristically rather lost for words right now! Of course it\u2019s daunting to be following in the footsteps of Prue Leith and Mary Berry<\/a> before her, great dames both, but I\u2019m also bubbling with excitement,…<\/div>\n

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The past and present stars of The Great British Baking Show (a.k.a. The Great British Bake Off) are weighing in on the show\u2019s brand-new judge. The U.K. baking competition series confirmed on Monday, January 26, that Nigella Lawson will be taking over Prue Leith\u2018s role as Paul Hollywood\u2018s co-judge on the show. The news comes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2251899,"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":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2251898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/\u2018Great-British-Baking-Show-Hosts-Contestants-React-to-Nigella.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251898","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=2251898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2251900,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251898\/revisions\/2251900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2251899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2251898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2251898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2251898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}