Overview
- Leith confirmed last month that she is leaving The Great British Bake Off after nine series at age 86.
- Multiple outlets report Nigella Lawson will join the judging panel, with Leith telling BBC Radio Oxford that Lawson "doesn't need any advice" and "knows her onions."
- In her book Being Old...and Learning to Love It!, Leith recounts declining a request to dance in a "rough and lumpy field" during filming due to fears of tripping.
- She writes that she later joined Alison Hammond dancing to a steel band in the tent for a New Year's episode, adding she "really doesn't care" if she looks foolish on screen.
- Leith says she had "been dithering for years" over when to stop and initially expected to serve only two years after joining in 2017.