Nearly a month after the controversial 'Mexican Week' episode of Great British Bake Off, judge Prue Leith is addressing the incident.The controversial episode aired earlier this month, featured the hosts Noel Fielding and Matt Lucas dressed in sombreros and ponchos with Fielding saying they shouldn't make Mexican jokes as Lucas added, 'Not even Juan?'The episode was blasted for those and other insensitive comments, with Leith, 82, insisting they were not trying to offend viewers.
Addressing: Nearly a month after the controversial 'Mexican Week' episode of Great British Bake Off, judge Prue Leith is addressing the incident Controversy: Nearly a month after the controversial 'Mexican Week' episode of Great British Bake Off, judge Prue Leith is addressing the incident'There would have been absolutely no intention to offend.
That’s not the spirit of the show,' Leith insisted in an interview with The New Yorker.The episode - which airs under the title Great British Baking Show - featured the bakers tasked with making Mexican dishes.
They were supposed to make pan dulce, steak tacos with homemade tortillas, and tres leches cakes. No intention: 'There would have been absolutely no intention to offend.
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