Prue Leith, who is due to be replaced by celebrity cook Nigella Lawson on The Great British Bake Off, doesn’t appear to be letting her age get in the way of her personal life.
Prue Leith has shared the “secret” to her youthful looks, declaring one thing has been “great” for her libido. In January, Prue announced that she would be parting ways with The Great British Bake Off after joining the beloved Channel 4 contest in 2017, citing her age and how she was “getting on a bit”.
Yet, the South African-British restaurateur, whose role is due to be taken over by celebrity cook Nigella Lawson, doesn’t appear to be letting her age get in the way of her personal life.
The 86-year-old recently broached the topic of sex among older couples, confessing that a medication aids her “libido”.
She said: “I asked a doctor, ‘What’s normal?’ She said there are no studies because it’s just imagined people my age don’t. I don’t think I’d be active in every sense without hormone replacement therapy (HRT).
“When people ask, ‘How do you look so young? How are you still working?’ Well, that’s the secret.”
Initially prescribed HRT after undergoing a hysterectomy when she was 40, Prue, who is married to John Playfair, doesn’t plan on curbing her use any time soon, despite its reported links to breast cancer.
She claimed that if she did indeed stop using it, she would face menopause symptoms in her 80s, something that she anticipates would be “horrendous”.
Indeed, in addition to progesterone tablets and oestrogen patches, she apparently uses what was described as “dabs” of testosterone gel, a medicine that she claims is “great for libido”.
She told Saga Magazine: “It’s great for libido. You feel better and younger and…” At this point, the outlet noted that Prue gave a “suggestive wink” and “broad grin.”
Like all medicine, the hormones used in hormone replacement therapy can cause side effects. The NHS has a helpful page providing all the information you ned about HRT, including its potential risks and benefits.
A beloved fixture on the baking show alongside fellow judge Paul Hollywood, Prue, who lives in Oxfordshire, recently opened up to BBC Radio Oxford about her replacement.
She was asked whether she had any advice for Nigella, to which Prue replied: “She doesn’t need any advice from me. She’s so good and she will bring to it’s a whole fresh look and she’ll be wonderful. She’s funny, she knows her onions and she’s delightful.”
In comments about her departure, she admitted to The Spectator that she had been “dithering for years” when it came to deciding when to call it a day.
She said: “I have been dithering for years about when to stop judging The Great British Bake Off. When I joined nine years ago, I thought, since I was in my mid-seventies, that I’d be lucky to manage two years.
“At that age, my mother was deaf as a post and away with the fairies, believing her son was her father and that her cat was the one she’d had 40 years before.”
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