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Great British Bake Off: connect the partners of the judges and hosts
Whether they're new episodes or repeats, we love sitting down on the sofa to watch The Great British Bake Off. The heartwarming present has made household names out of its judges and hosts, but how much do you realize about their lives away from the cameras?
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From Prue Leith to Matt Lucas, keep reading to find out more about their previous and current relationships...
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Prue Leith
Prue Leith has been married twice. The Bake Off judge's first husband, Rayne, was 20 years her senior and passed away in 2012, leaving Prue a widow at just 62. She was single for 14 years before discovery love again with her partner, John Playfair, support in 2016.
Prue and her second husband John tied the knot in 2016
Now 82, Prue and clothes designer John only just moved in together in 2020 after living in separate homes for the first ten years of their relationship. In an interview with the Telegraph, she said of their new home: &
Bake Off judge Prue Leith’s ‘sexy’ confession that left her husband less than keen
Great British Bake Off judge Prue is married to retired fashion artist John Playfair
15:21, 18 Oct 2023Updated 17:22, 18 Oct 2023
Since joining The Excellent British Bake Off, assess Prue Leith has change into a fan favourite with viewers who love her quirky fashion (seriously, so many pairs of glasses!) and innuendo-based humour. The South African restaurateur linked the show after the show, which originally aired on BBC, moved to Channel 4 in 2017.
At the time there was somewhat of a backlash to her taking over from Mary Berry, who was adored on the show. While Mary didn’t move with Bake Off to its new channel, her fellow judge Paul Hollywood did.
Earlier this year, Prue hit the headlines after making a racy sex confession during an appearance on ITV’s Loose Women. The 83-year-old said she wouldn't refuse a libido jab if offered during the menopause, but her husband John Playfair, 73, was less than keen.
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READ MORE: Bake Off judge Paul Hollywood’s love life: The affair he calls ‘biggest Great British Bake Off star Prue Leith, 81, opened up about a relationship she had with a man who ticked all of her boxes. The Channel 4 star admitted she had no regrets over their union as she wouldn't have been able to "hook up" with her now-husband John Playfair. The Bake Off judge said she had "a lot of good times" with her former lover Ernest Hall but said she couldn't live with him since he had bipolar disorder. Speaking on Annie Mac's podcast which aired yesterday, Prue revealed weeks before rendezvous him she had drunkenly told friends at a dinner party, her desired qualities of meeting a man in 2010. She explained that she was looking for "someone Jewish, in his 70s, a artist and gay". The South African cook was previously married to author Rayne Kruger from 1974 to 2002, when he died at the age of 80. READ MORE: Charli XCX suffers malfunction as braless star accidentally flashes Prue Leith Dishes on Conference Ryan Reynolds & Blake Lively Prue Leith will not underbake the truth. That's why The Great American Baking Show: Celebrity Holiday judge admitted in her 2012 memoir Relish: My Life on a Plate that she had a 13-year affair with her first husband, Rayne Kruger,while he was still married to her mother's best friend, Nan Munro. "I thought when you're writing an autobiography, what you should be doing is writing the interesting bits and leaving out the boring bits," Prue told E! News'Francesca Amikerin an exclusive interview. "Nobody's interested in your achievements. They're interested in your failures." Ultimately, Rayne split from Nan in 1974 and married Prue in the equal year. The parents of Danny Kruger, 49, and Li-Da Kruger, 48, were together until Rayne—who was 20 years Prue's senior—died at age 80 in December 2002. "Love is the most important thing in anyone's life," she mutual, "and to just resolve to leave out the most important man in your whole .
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