{"id":900936,"date":"2026-04-22T18:15:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T23:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/prue-leith-85-reveals-the-health-concern-that-casued-her-to-step-down-from-bake-off\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T18:15:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T23:15:32","slug":"prue-leith-85-reveals-the-health-concern-that-casued-her-to-step-down-from-bake-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/prue-leith-85-reveals-the-health-concern-that-casued-her-to-step-down-from-bake-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Prue Leith, 85, reveals the health concern that casued her to step down from Bake Off"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By ROSS KANIUK <\/p>\n

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When she announced she was stepping down from Bake Off, Prue Leith<\/a> explained she wanted to enjoy more time off work.<\/p>\n

But now the 85-year-old has revealed another reason – she has become increasingly worried about ‘being less steady on her pins’.<\/p>\n

Prue announced her retirement from the TV baking show in January, previously stating how she wanted to enjoy more relaxing holiday time, especially summers in Europe.<\/p>\n

But, sharing fears about her growing frailty, she has now admitted: ‘I think the thing I found worrying is that I’m not very steady on my pins any more – not as good as I were.’<\/p>\n

She revealed that it was while filming in a field for the series with co-stars Paul Hollywood<\/a>, 60, and Noel Fielding<\/a>, 52, that she first realised she was struggling to do things she had taken for granted before.<\/p>\n

She added: ‘We weren’t judging cake – they wanted us to dance round this field. And it was a very hummocky, uneven, field, which of course Noel could really leap over brilliantly and Paul perfectly good.<\/p>\n

‘But I suddenly realised ‘I’m going to go A over T, you know, this is going to be humiliating beyond belief’. So I said ‘I don’t want to do it’, and they understood – they were fine.<\/p>\n

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Now 85, Prue has shared a further concern: a growing anxiety over being ‘less steady on her feet’<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0Pictures with Paul Hollywood, who has been nicknamed the ‘silver fox’ and is the sole original cast member still anchoring The Great British Bake Off<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

‘And that was the first time I had to say ‘I can’t do that’. Gradually there had been more and more of those things.’<\/p>\n

Prue added on The Shift podcast: ‘Ever since I’ve been on Bake Off Paul has always teased me because I’m so much older than him.’<\/p>\n

The pair have a 25 year age gap. ‘He’d say things like ‘Come along deary, upsy daisy’, ‘time for your nap’ or ‘time for your tea’, or something or other. This is a running joke… but of late I’ve thought ‘Actually, you’re right mate’.<\/p>\n

‘If I had stayed on Bake Off, I’d have asked for a ramp to get into my Winnebago. Paul’s teasing would have become absolutely true, so he would have probably stopped doing it.’<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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