Prue Leith Details Recent Hospital Visit After Husband Feared She'd Had A Stroke

Prue Leith has shared that she recently received treatment in hospital after a health scare.

The former Great British Bake Off star shared her experience in her latest column for The Oldie, as reported by The Sun, claiming that she suffered a severe “migraine attack” that affected her vision and ability to speak.

Because her husband feared she was having a stroke, the 86-year-old was subsequently rushed to hospital.

“My incomprehensible jumble of disconnected words convinced John I was having a stroke,” she said.

“I tried to tell him it was just a migraine, but I couldn’t string two words together.”

She then spent around six hours in A&E at Harrogate Hospital, with Prue writing: “The NHS personnel are all cheerful, sympathetic, polite, helpful and professional. You may have to wait forever, but when it is your turn, you are treated as if you were the only patient in A&E.”

“I knew all along that all I had was a migraine,” she added. “But since the speech problem is a classic symptom of a stroke, and my extreme old age being a time when mini-strokes are common, everyone was determined to be safe not sorry.”

The upcoming season of Bake Off will be the first since 2017 without Prue at the helm.

She announced earlier this year that she was stepping away from the tent for good, and has since been replaced by legendary TV chef Nigella Lawson.

Prue later wrote in The Spectator: “When I joined nine years ago, I thought, since I was in my mid-70s, 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. But my marbles stayed more or less in place and there seemed no good reason to give up a job I loved.”

She then admitted that “the desire to work less and play more” became stronger during her time as a Bake Off judge, eventually realising that “if I don’t give up Bake Off, I’ll never again have a holiday in the south of France, in Italy, in Spain, or even in Cornwall or Scotland” with her family.