The Nice British Bake Off decide Dame Prue Leith has made an sincere admission concerning the upcoming Christmas particular, which is able to see the forged of Peep Present taking up festive baking challenges

Prue Leith has made a reasonably awkward confession concerning the forthcoming Christmas particular of The Nice British Bake Off, pleading: “do not inform them”. The festive instalment of the hit baking programme, scheduled to broadcast on Christmas Day, will characteristic stars from the cult Channel 4 comedy Peep Present – David Mitchell, Olivia Colman, Isy Suttie, Matt King and Sophie Winkleman – tackling a collection of baking duties.

Introduced by The Mighty Boosh comic Noel Fielding alongside This Morning’s Alison Hammond, The Nice Peep Present Christmas Bake Off will see the movie star contestants scrutinised by Bake Off legends Dame Prue Leith and Paul Hollywood.

Throughout a latest chat, Prue mentioned the forthcoming Peep Present particular, however made a considerably awkward revelation – admitting she’d by no means really watched the programme. She then made a humorous request and confessed that she does not “watch any telly”.

Talking candidly about her new festive bakers, the 85-year-old informed Girl’s Personal journal: “I had by no means even heard of Peep Present. Please do not inform them! However I watched it and I liked it.”

She went on: “To be sincere, I am usually bluffing my head off with the celebrities as a result of I do not watch any telly. The one ones I am prone to know are actors of a sure age.”

In different information, Prue lately left gardening icon and Floor Power legend Alan Titchmarsh gobsmacked when she made an surprising comment about greens throughout an look on his ITV programme Love Your Weekend final month (November 23).

Whereas chatting together with her fellow visitor on the present, Downton Abbey and Chilly Toes star Robert Bathurst, Prue quizzed him about his veg-growing exploits and the way he handles the summer season glut.

She requested: “If you happen to’re rising greens, what do you do with all of the produce that hits you in the summertime? There’s all these b***y tomatoes and all these piles of spinach.”

Prue shared her personal expertise: “I spent years rising and processing and what you do is you end up at midnight you are freezing spinach, it fills the freezer, and then you definitely’ve obtained far an excessive amount of of it and you find yourself making room within the freezer subsequent yr for extra spinach and placing that lot on the compost heap.”

She went on to say that the grocery store has “completely good packets” for the quantity of greens that she requires, as an alternative of what she described as a “mountain” on Monday and “nothing” the following day.

It appears that evidently her feedback left the green-fingered Alan barely bowled over, as he retorted: “If solely we may edit that out,” sparking laughter from the entire group.

He jokingly added: “Prue Leith well-known prepare dinner, do not trouble rising it, it is within the grocery store.”

You possibly can catch The Nice Peep Present Christmas Bake Off on Channel 4 on Christmas Day, from 8pm to 9:15pm