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Prue Leithis opening up about a scary incident she had while on the Italian island of Sardinia.
According toThe Great British Baking Showjudge, 82, a relaxing day on the Mediterranean Sea quickly turned into “a whole day of absolute misery” after the engine on her motorboat gave out.
“I couldn’t start itand the wind was getting up. I thought, ‘This has the makings of a really bad novel,” she explained toThe Daily Mirror.
Leith added that the alarming situation worsened as she tried to flag people down.
“I’d be waving wildly, and they just waved back, thinking I was just being friendly,” she told the outlet. After the long day at sea, it was a fisherman that finally came to the rescue, telling her: “You tourists, you risk your lives. You could have drifted all the way to Corsica!”
The judge did not say when the incident occurred. A representative for Leith did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
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Last month, the famed chef published anupdated memoirtitled,I’ll Try Anything Once: My Life on a Plateabout her experience on and off the television.
She firstjoined the hit cooking competition seriesas a judge in March 2017. On the show, home bakers from across Britain are put into a series of food challenges.
Speaking toPEOPLElast month aboutworking as a judgeon the beloved series, she said: “Of course, I have made thousands of desserts and lots of wedding cakes, and I’m so interested in the skills, but that’s not what I would naturally do. I think they hired me because I have a great set of taste buds, not for my piping skills.”
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The same month that she published her memoir, she also published her most recent cookbook,Bliss on Toast, which features 75 recipes.
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She describesstarting the writing processduring the COVID lockdown, when she “realized very quickly that anything that tastes good the first time around tastes even better on toast the second time around.”
source: people.com
