Prue Leith has called weight-loss jabs a ‘waste of money’ after she ‘didn’t lose a single pound’ while taking the medication for the month.
The Great British Bake Off host, 86, who announced she was stepping back from the show in January, said she decided to try it after her husband John Playfair, 71, dropped three stone on Mounjaro.
The prescription-only drug, also known as Tirzepatide, is used for weight loss and the treatment of Type 2 diabetes.
Prue told the Press Association : ‘I tried, but it didn’t do anything. I didn’t read the instructions. I reckon I was eating 200 calories a day, which I didn’t realise.
‘And what your body then does is it simply says, “this is starvation. I mustn’t let anything go”. I did not lose a single pound. So I lost no weight, although for two weeks I was eating almost nothing.
‘I don’t think I need to (use it). It’s b****y expensive, and I think if it’s not going to work, it’s a waste of money.’
Prue Leith has called weight-loss jabs a ‘waste of money’ after she ‘didn’t lose a single pound’ while taking the medication for the month
The Great British Bake Off host, 86, who announced she was stepping back from the show in January, said she decided to try it after her husband John Playfair dropped three stone
Prue went on to say during her nine years on Bake Off sampling indulgent treats, Prue revealed she never gained weight.
She said: ‘Cake and wine go together. I mean, it’s obviously not a diet to be recommended. It worked fine for me. It’s only 10 weeks of my life, and it’s only two days of every week. It’s not seven days a week. For 20 days, I lived on cake and wine.
‘I could have happily gone on doing it forever. I know I would miss it, but I’m running out of time.’
It has since been confirmed Nigella Lawson will take her place, and will join co-judge Paul Hollywood when the new series begins filming in April.
Giving her opinion on her replacement, Prue said: ‘(Nigella) is going to be absolutely brilliant. She’ll be very different, but she’s a class act. She really knows what she’s doing.’
Prue decided to step down so she could holiday in Europe. She said: ‘I could have happily gone on doing it forever. I know I would miss it, but I’m running out of time.’
The TV chef, who replaced former show judge Mary Berry in 2017, previously explained her departure at the time in an interview with The Spectator.
She said: ‘I have been dithering for years about when to stop judging The Great British Bake Off.
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It has since been confirmed Nigella Lawson will take her place at Bake Off judge, and will join co-judge Paul Hollywood when the new series begins filming in April
Nigella will takeover from Prue and star alongside Paul Hollywood, Alison Hammond and Noel Fielding
‘When I joined nine years ago, I thought, since I was in my mid-seventies, 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.
‘Finally, though, the desire to work less and play more got to me. Bake Off and its offshoots such as The Great American Baking Show and even the Christmas specials are all filmed in the summer, which has meant I could never have a summer holiday.’
Prue explained that a recent getaway to Madagascar was what finally convinced her that it was time to move on.
‘I suddenly realised 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,’ she said.
