Bake Off’s Prue Leith reveals she stripped naked after seeing ‘bottoms bouncing everywhere’ at a Paris orgy
BAKE Off judge Prue Leith is used to seeing things rise in the heat but she reveals she ended up taking off her own clothes at a Paris party when things got a little hot under the collar.
The 80-year-old admits attending an orgy in the French capital and stripping off when a young woman in the swinging sixties.
The TV star was so 'embarrassed' by the sight of 'bouncing bottoms everywhere' she stripped off so as to become invisible.
Talking on this week’s episode of The Jonathan Ross Show, Prue confirmed her attendance: “I did go to an orgy in Paris, but I have to claim I didn’t know I was going to go to an orgy.
"I thought I was going to a party. Went with a very nice guy, so thought that would be great.
“All I can say is room after room of bouncing bottoms everywhere… on the floor, in all the rooms. I was so embarrassed."
Explaining how she tried to escape she continued: "Anyhow, this guy, he thought it was fantastic.
"So he just vanished. So there I am, 19 or something.
"So I went to the bar and somebody immediately said to me, ‘Why have you got your clothes on?’ I said, ‘I’m just going to change’.
"I’d walk away. Someone else saying, ‘Why have you got clothes on?’
"So I realised the only way to be invisible was to take my clothes off. So I took my clothes off and walked around this party.
"Spent the next hour saying I was going to the bar, the loo, looking for a friend. I missed the orgy, although I was there!”
Prue mused: “I’ve lived a long time, doesn’t seem worth not enjoying it.”
Speaking of her own love and husband John, who she married when she was 76 and he was 70, she said confesses: “I had to get married in Scotland, because he refused to wear a kilt south of the border. I was determined, if I was going to get married this guy had to be in a kilt. He’s got a very good undercarriage.”
And she says she is as romantic now an octogenarian as she was a teenager: "What people don’t realise, especially young people, it actually feels exactly the same at 70, 80 or 60 when you lust after someone as you do when you’re 20.”
On the new series of The Great British Bake Off, judge Prue remained tight-lipped: “No, no idea who is going to be on it. I don’t even know when it’s happening and where it’s happening.
"They’re a really secretive lot. I know the rumours. It’s terribly funny. I’ll text Noel or Matt and say, ‘Just heard we’re going to be locked down for 7 weeks in Essex again’, then I’ll get an email back saying ‘No, no we’re not, we’re going down to Sussex…’ anyhow, we’re going to do it somewhere.
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