Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Prue: My novels are perfect for great British TV
Bake Off judge craves a hit screen drama
CHEF and writer Prue Leith reckons her novels would prove big hits as TV dramas.
The Bake Off judge, 80, said: “I have written eight novels and what I really want to do before I die is become a screenwriter. I want one of my novels to be made into a Sunday night drama.
“I always write family love stories and I think my latest ones are a trilogy of novels which I have been trying to get on to the BBC or ITV.
“I haven’t tried Netflix or Amazon.”
Speaking on
Katie Piper’s Extraordinary People podcast, Prue also told how she is happy with her level of fame.
She said: “Before I was on Bake Off I had a tiny degree of fame. But even now I don’t have the degree of fame that is limiting.
“If I was as famous as Gwyneth Paltrow or Madonna or Beyonce,
I wouldn’t be able to walk down the road without being stopped by everybody and it would be terrible.”
Prue, married to retired clothes designer John Playfair, added: “If I go out to a pub or bar somebody will recognise me but it’s really kind. Those people are really nice and I think the least I can do is be cheerful about it.”
But she admits recognition has caused at least one headache.
She added: “The only time I’ve ever been mobbed was at The Good Food Show.
“I was doing a demonstration and I thought I’d get there early and see the stalls, and I couldn’t get to a single stall because everybody wanted a photograph.
“I thought, ‘My god, this is what it’s like if you’re Jamie Oliver!’”