What Happened to Prue From the British Baking Show

Due south African-British chef, writer, television receiver personality, businesswoman

Matriarch Prue Leith DBE
Leith, Waterstones, Piccadilly, London, Dec 2018
Born	Prudence Margaret Leith (1940-02-18) 18 Feb 1940 (historic period 82) Cape Town, Greatcoat Province, Union of Due south Africa[1]
Instruction	St Mary's School, Waverley University of Cape Town
Television receiver	The Bang-up British Menu (2006–2016) My Kitchen Rules (2016) The Swell British Broil Off (2017–) Inferior Bake Off (2019)
Spouse(south)	Rayne Kruger ​ ​ (thousand. 1974; died 2002)​ John Playfair ​ (g. 2016)​
Children	2, including Danny Kruger

Dame Prudence Margaret Leith, DBE (born xviii February 1940^[2]) is a British-South African^[ane] restaurateur, chef, caterer, television presenter/broadcaster, journalist, cookery author and novelist. She is Chancellor of Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. She was a judge on BBC Two's Bang-up British Menu for eleven years, before joining The Swell British Broil Off in March 2017, replacing Mary Berry, when the goggle box programme moved to Channel 4.^[three]

Early life [edit]

Leith was born in Cape Town, South Africa. Her father, Sam Leith, worked for African Explosives, a subsidiary of ICI, producing dynamite for use in mines, and ultimately served equally a director. Her female parent, Margaret 'Peggy' Inglis, was an actress.^[4] From the age of 5 until she was 17, Leith attended St Mary's School, Waverley, an English contained individual boarding school for girls in Johannesburg run by Anglican nuns.^{[ citation needed ]} She left with a first grade matriculation^{[ citation needed ]} and studied at the University of Greatcoat Town, where she failed to follow for any length of fourth dimension courses in drama, fine art, architecture or French. She persuaded her parents to allow her to attend the Sorbonne (formally, the University of Paris), ostensibly to learn French amend while studying the Cours de Civilisation Française. While in Paris, she finally realised she wanted a career in the food industry.

Career [edit]

In 1960, Leith moved to London to attend the Cordon Bleu Cookery School and then began a business supplying high-quality business lunches. This grew to go Leith's Good Nutrient, a party and upshot caterer.^[v] In 1969, she opened Leith's, her Michelin-starred eating house in Notting Loma, eventually selling information technology in 1995.^[6] In 1975, she founded Leith's School of Nutrient and Wine, which trains professional person chefs and amateur cooks.^{[vii] [vi]} The group reached a turnover of £xv million in 1993, which she and so sold. In 1995, she helped found the Prue Leith Higher (since renamed Prue Leith Chef's University) in Due south Africa.

The first woman appointed to the British Railways Lath in 1977, she fix nigh improving its much-criticised catering. The catering sectionalization, Travellers Fare, was detached from the hotels concern in 1982 with outlets created, including Casey Jones and Upper Crust.^[8]

Concurrently with running her concern, Leith became a food columnist for, successively, the Daily Mail, Sunday Express, The Guardian and the Daily Mirror. Bated from writing 12 cookery books, including Leith's Cookery Bible, she has written seven novels: Leaving Patrick, Sisters, A Lovesome Matter, Choral Society, A Serving of Scandal, The Food of Love: Laura's Story and The Prodigal Daughter. These last two form function of the Food of Dear trilogy. Her memoir, Savour, was published in 2012.

Her commencement tv set appearance was in the 1970s as a presenter of 2 13-episode mag series aimed at women at dwelling house, made by Tyne Tees Tv set. She was a terminal-minute replacement for Jack de Manio, and with no experience and a director who liked everything scripted, including interviews, she disliked the feel. Later, in the 1980s, she was the field of study of two television programmes about her life and career: the first episode of Aqueduct four's Take Six Cooks and the BBC'south The Best of British, a serial about immature entrepreneurs. In 1999, she was 1 of the Commissioners on Channel four's Poverty Commission. She returned to television to be a judge on The Great British Menu for xi years until 2016 and a gauge for My Kitchen Rules, which she left to supercede Mary Drupe in The Great British Bake Off.

She has been involved in food in education. When chair of the Royal Society of Arts she founded and chaired the charity Focus on Food (now office of the Soil Association) which promotes cooking in the curriculum. She also started, with the charity Training for Life, the Hoxton Amateur; a not-for-turn a profit eating place which for ten years trained the near disadvantaged long-term unemployed immature people. Until 2015, she was a member of the Food Strand of the grant-giving foundation, Esmée Fairbairne. From 2007 to 2010, she was the Chair of the Schoolhouse Food Trust, the government quango largely responsible for the improvement in school food^{[ citation needed ]} after Jamie Oliver's boob tube exposé of the poor country of school dinners. The Trust (now the Children'due south Food Trust) as well set up and runs Permit's Get Cooking, an organisation of over 5,000 cooking clubs in country schools, of which she is a patron.^{[ commendation needed ]} She is vice-president of The Sustainable Eating house Clan; a trustee of Baby Taste Journeying (an education charity concerned with good for you food for infants); Patron of The Plant for Food, Brain and Behaviour, Sustain's Campaign for Better Hospital Food, and the Prue Leith Chef's Academy in her native South Africa.

She has also been active in general teaching, chairing Ashridge Management Higher (2002–07); 3E's Enterprises (an education company turning round declining schools and managing academies (1998–2006) and Chairman of Governors at the secondary schoolhouse Kings College in Guildford (2000–07).

She has too been involved in many diverse organisations: she chaired the Restaurateurs Association (1990–94); she was a member of the Investors in People working group; she chaired the Royal Order of Arts (1995–97); and Forum for the Futurity (2000–03). She was a managing director of the housing association, Places for People (1999–2003) and a member of the Consumer Debt Working Group that contributed to the Conservative Party's 2006 policy certificate Breakdown U.k. (2004–05). She has also been one of the voices in favour of Brexit, defending her choice, although lately voicing business organization over lowering of food standards.^[ix]

While at the RSA, she led the successful campaign to apply the empty plinth, at present known every bit the Quaternary Plinth, in Trafalgar Square to house irresolute sculptures or installations by the all-time gimmicky artists.

Leith has been a non-executive director of British Rail; British Ship Hotels; Safeway; Argyll plc, the Leeds Permanent Building Society; Whitbread plc; Woolworths plc; the Halifax; Triven VCT; Omega International plc; and Belmond Hotels Ltd (formerly Orient Express Hotels) and is a managing director and investor in several start-upwardly companies.

In July 2017, she was installed as the Chancellor of Queen Margaret Academy, Edinburgh.^[10]

Personal life [edit]

Leith was married to author Rayne Kruger, with whom she had previously had a 13-year matter,^[11] from 1974 until his death aged 80 in December 2002. The couple had two children, a son and a girl.^[12] Their daughter, Li-Da Kruger (a Cambodian adoptee), is a filmmaker.^{[13] [14]} Their son, Danny Kruger, was a speechwriter and adviser to David Cameron,^[fifteen] and has been the Conservative MP for Devizes since December 2019.

In October 2016, Leith married John Playfair, a retired clothes designer.^{[16] [17]}

Her brother, ex-restaurateur James Leith, is married to the biographer Penny Junor.^{[18] [nineteen]}

Leith faced criticism from the eating disorder awareness clemency Vanquish for her The Great British Bakeoff catchprase "Worth the calories," which Beat believes is triggering to those who endure from eating disorders.^[20]

In May 2020, she expressed support of the breach of virus lockdown by Dominic Cummings and Mary Wakefield,^[21] whom her son described as "erstwhile friends."^[22]

In December 2021, she was the guest on BBC Radio iv's Desert Island Discs.^[23]

Honours [edit]

Leith's honours include the Veuve Clicquot Business organisation Adult female of the Year in 1990 and thirteen honorary degrees or fellowships from Great britain universities.^{[24] [25] [26]}

She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1989, Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours^[27] and Matriarch Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to food, dissemination and charity.^[28]

References [edit]

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20. ^ "Prue Leith Responds To Criticism Of Bake Off 'Worth The Calories' Comments". HuffPost Great britain. 21 Dec 2021. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
21. ^ O'Connor, Roisin (27 May 2020). "Prue Leith defends Dominic Cummings over lockdown row: 'How about a bit of kindness and tolerance?'". The Independent . Retrieved 27 May 2020.
22. ^ Paessler, Benjamin (26 May 2020). "John Glen, Danny Kruger reply to Dominic Cummings allegations". Salisbury Journal . Retrieved 27 May 2020.
23. ^ "Desert Island Discs - Matriarch Prue Leith, writer and broadcaster - BBC Sounds". www.bbc.co.united kingdom.
24. ^ "News article almost honorary degree from City University". Archived from the original on 30 June 2006.
25. ^ "News Article virtually Leith'due south honorary degree from Oxford Brookes University". ^{[ permanent dead link ]}
26. ^ "Article about Leith'southward honorary degree from the University of Warwick". Archived from the original on 8 October 2013.
27. ^ "No. 59446". The London Gazette (Supplement). 12 June 2010. p. 7.
28. ^ "No. 63377". The London Gazette (Supplement). 12 June 2021. p. B8.

External links [edit]

• Prue Leith at IMDb
• Prue Leith Chefs Academy and Catering, South Africa
• Leiths Schoolhouse of Food and Wine
• Podcast interview with Prue Leith On the occasion of her being awarded the degree of Honorary Doctor of Letters by the University of Warwick in January 2013

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