Dame Prue Leith always thought she would be successful
Dame Prue Leith admitted that failures come as a complete surprise to her.
Dame Prue Leith always expected to be successful.
The 86-year-old star is a renowned restaurateur, chef, businesswoman, cookery writer, novelist and TV personality, and failures have always taken the former Great British Bake Off judge by surprise.
Prue told the new issue of Woman's Weekly magazine: "It always comes as a great surprise if I fail at something.
"Of course I do fail, but I'm quite forward-looking and optimistic and curious too. I want to know about people.
"I seldom see anything without thinking, 'Oh, I'd like to do that.'"
And one of those things was to quit Channel 4's The Great British Bake Off in January after eight years to spend more time with her husband, retired fashion designer John Playfair, and children, Conservative MP Danny Kruger, and documentarian Li-Da Kruger.
The Michelin-starred Leith's Restaurant owner said: "We've got enough money to have an annual holiday all together.
"I live in a house that we've only recently built and really enjoyed building, so just being at home is a joy."
Following the death of her first husband, author Rayne Kruger, in December 2002 from emphysema at the age of 80, Prue met John at a dinner party in 2011, and they got married in Scotland in October 2016.
The couple live in their home in Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, called Middle Brookend Farm.
Prue has learned to compromise to keep her and John's marriage strong.
The Leith's School of Food and Wine founder quipped: "As you get older, you do get wiser, there's no question, although it's taken me a while."
Prue then explained: "At the beginning, I was just beside myself - I couldn't believe John could be so untidy. He says I'm sterilely tidy; that if he stood still for a minute, I'd put him in a plastic bag and put him in the rubbish!
"And there's some truth in that, that I do go around tidying up after him.
"But what I realised is that he's now 80 years old, and at that age, you're not going to change, are you? So we have to just accommodate each other."
The Being Old...and learning to love it! author shared that she has "stopped moaning" at John and often says to herself that he is "worth it" because "living with someone else is hard, especially when you get older".
