Dame Prue Leith only eats teaspoons of cake per Bake Off episode so she doesn't pile on the pounds.
The 84-year-old food expert took over from Dame Mary Berry, 89, as judge alongside Paul Hollywood, 58, when the programme moved from BBC One to Channel 4 seven years ago, and she has also revealed another major way she cuts back on eating while filming, saying she avoids eating breakfast and lunch to make way for her cake testing.
Prue explained in a new interview: "It's not a problem, because if you think about it even if there are 12 bakers in there and we're judging the showstopper if I'm clever and I can get a teaspoon that gets a bit of icing, a bit of filling and a bit of cake, it's only a teaspoon, so it's 12 teaspoons. If you do that twice in the first day when we do the first two challenges and then once on the next day it's not that much. But I don't eat breakfast and I don't eat lunch so basically I get my calories from the cake."
Prue also said she avoids eating breakfast and lunch to make way for her cake testing (Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)"Paul doesn't get fat and he eats everything, including breakfast and lunch! Some people can just do it," she added on the Crazy Sexy Food podcast. Prue also admitted it's a very intense process to get on the show and the bakers are under immense pressure, even before they are filmed.
She shared: "I think that's one of the great secrets of it. Because it's taken really seriously, Paul and I want to see really perfect bakes, so the expectation is very high. The bakers, to get there, have had six months of intense practicing and competition and then finally sending it in.
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"Getting through the process of actually getting onto Bake Off is enormously difficult, and there they are, they're finally there and they don't want to mess it up, they've spent six months of their lives getting there and they don't want to mess it up.
"The tension grows during the series because they think, 'My God, there is a chance that I could actually win.' And of course any one of them could win. If you think thousands and thousands of people apply to Bake Off and you've got 12 which have been judged to be the best out of these thousands so of course they could all win Bake Off, they are all up to it. And they all know that, they know that they're in with a chance so of course they're very anxious and tense."
It comes after Prue revealed her husband John Playfair wishes he had married Mary Berry instead. The chef, who has also run a Michelin-starred restaurant, said she was hired for her "tasting experience" on GBBO rather than her baking - and added that while she loves to bake her husband sometimes jokes he should have married Mary Berry instead. She said: "I do love to bake, but my husband complains that our house is a cake-free zone. He says he should have married Mary Berry."
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