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EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Prue Leith serves up hard truth to struggling youngsters


Addressing an audience of students at the Cambridge Union this week, the Bake Off judge warned them that they might not like what she was planning to tell them.

The Great British Bake Off is one of the most popular television programmes among young people, but that hasn’t deterred Dame Prue Leith from speaking her mind about how they’ve been ‘mollycoddled’ by their over-protective parents. Dame Prue, 85, who founded Leith’s School of Food And Wine, which trains professional chefs and amateur cooks, has some advice for young people: ‘The most important thing is never to be bored. The ethereal pop singer, 66, who has hits including Wuthering Heights and Babooshka, has made only limited public appearances since her 22 comeback gigs in 2014 and a live album released two years later.

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