Prue Leith

Prue Leith’s career has included her own restaurants, catering and cookery school businesses; she’s been a board director of companies such as British Rail, Halifax, Safeway, Whitbread, Woolworths, and Belmond (ex-Orient Express) Hotels. She has published eight novels, a memoir, I’ll Do Anything Once (formerly, Relish) and 14 cookbooks. Her latest cookbook, ‘Life’s Too Short to Stuff a Mushroom’ was published October 2024 and her new book ‘Being Old’ Sunday Times Bestseller was published February 2026. Prue is probably best known as a judge on the Great British Bake Off, a gardening programme, Prue’s Great Garden Plot with her husband, as well as a judge on the American Baking Show. She has also been a judge on The Great British Menu and My Kitchen Rules and is set to film the fourth series of her own TV show, Prue Leith’s Cotswold Kitchen. Prue has had a deep involvement with education and the arts: she chaired the first of the companies charged with turning round failing state school