Wisdom from non-PC Prue

FORMER editor of American Cosmopolitan magazine Joanna Coles now overseeing 300 publications announces that she watches TV shows on fast forward.

If Coles speeds up shows to double time she saves valuable minutes in a life so busy she has not a second spare. She says: “People speed read all the time so why can’t you speed watch.” The funny thing is I thought I was the world’s only speed watcher. It is not that I am CEO of some giant conglomerate, just that my Radio 2 early breakfast show starts at 5am and I have to be in the studio at 4.30am.

A minute spent watching the box is a minute less sleeping time. So I developed the secret habit of dipping in and out of fast forward PRUE LEITH is as refreshing as a good old fashioned dose of salts.

The new Bake Off presenter says she and her husband used to pack their children off to bed at 7pm. Her reason: not because youngsters need hours of extra sleep but because adults need to relax uninterrupted, quaffing alcoholic beverages.

Prue may not be particularly politically correct but the chances are her forthright views will make highly entertaining viewing.

FAST FORWARD TELLY TO HAVE MORE TIME IN BED

so I can get the gist of my favourite programmes without getting bogged down in detail. Is it insanity or the only way to cram in a fix of fun before knuckling down to the sensible business of fitting in some shut-eye?

I feared I had veered into unacceptable craziness but now I know I am in such illustrious company I feel tons better.