Prue Leith details why she 'totally understands' Matt Lucas' decision to quit Bake Off

express.co.uk:

Great British Bake Off judge Prue Leith admitted she was deeply distraught to hear that her co-star Matt Lucas would be leaving the show.

However, she has insisted it's totally understandable, as the former Little Britain star goes in search of new projects."I totally understand why [he quit], because Bake Off takes up four months of the year," she reasoned."He’s extremely talented and wants to do more writing, more theatre..."Although she has refused to be drawn into a discussion about which mystery host might take his place, she did disclose that she is "very, very sad" to no longer be working with him.In fact, she added in her latest interview in the new issue of Saga that she had almost thought she'd be leaving the show herself."I thought I’d be sacked," she confessed, referring to the well-publicised time she accidentally leaked the name of the winner before it had been announced.Prue had been travelling abroad in a different time zone when she received a message telling her who would win.Assuming that the show had already ended, she made the big announcement - only to realise she had outed Sophie Faldo's triumph far too early."I was ready to be told to go because I felt I deserved to after that, but thankfully it didn’t happen," she cringed.Meanwhile, she has declared her Bake Off judging role as "the best job in television", in spite of saying she understood Matt's desire to leave the show behind altogether.She has "no clue" who could replace her friend, but has insisted that anyone could be in the running, because "who wouldn't want to work on Bake Off?"Prue also addressed Matt's departure during an interview on the One Show, explaining: "If [you're] close to [him], you do know that he never stops working and he.