Ever wondered if it’s difficult to be a judge on The Great British Bake Off and not gain weight from trying all of those cakes? Turns out that might have crossed Dame Prue Leith’s mind.
The Bake Off judge, 85, tried weight loss jabs for two months, despite once saying they ‘take the joy out of life’.
Speaking at The Times Health Commission in February last year, Dame Prue said: ‘It’s the wrong answer because you have to go on jabbing yourself for the rest of your life and that can’t be entirely good.’
At the time, she said they should only be used by people who are in desperate need of losing weight, according to the Daily Mail.
But in a new conversation with The Sunday Times, Dame Prue has admitted she’s backtracked slightly.
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She said: ‘I did try it; I took it for two months, lost my appetite completely, and didn’t shed an ounce.’
But Dame Prue felt the effects of the drug physically. She said she ‘hated’ it and was tired all the time. Her husband, John Playfair, she recalls, said she ‘looked thinner’, which she took to mean ‘old and scraggy round the face.’
The broadcaster also commented on the price: ‘And it’s expensive.
‘As soon as I could, I stopped. It was terrible for me.’
Playfair, on the other hand, lost two stone on Mounjaro, she noted.
But she’s not thrilled by how it’s affected his other habits: ‘He hardly drinks now, and I’m a great boozer’.
Dame Prue says she has two or three glasses of wine per night, and now she probably won’t finish one—something she calls ‘a pity’.
Drugs like Ozempic and Mounjaro, have become increasingly popular in recent years.
Recently Serena Williams confirmed using GLP-1 treatment to help with weight loss. And Sharon Osborne was an earlier adopter, who later revealed she was struggling to put weight back on, after taking the drugs.
It was 2011 when Dame Prue met retired clothing designer Playfair. They married five years later, when Prue was 76, and he was 70.
Recently, the TV personality admitted she ‘does not have much longer’ and wants to spend all the time she can with her husband.
During a conversation with Holly Rubenstein on The Travel Diaries podcast, she said: ‘I haven’t got much longer; I’m 85. I want to spend as much time as I can with him.’
And earlier this year, Dame Prue revealed she’d be reducing her Bake Off hours by taking some time off from the celebrity version to explore other passions.
On This Morning, she said: ‘What I’m not doing this year is the celebrity one and it’s mainly because these things are filmed back-to-back the whole way through summer.’
Dame Prue elaborated: ‘I’m getting a bit old, and there are places I want to go to and other things I want to do.’
The final episode of The Great British Bake Off airs tomorrow at 8pm on Channel 4.
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