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GBBO’s Prue Leith Reflects on Early Financial Lessons and Career Beginnings

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Dame Prue Leith, the beloved Great British Bake Off judge, recently opened up about a key financial lesson she learned early in her career. Reflecting on advice from her first husband, Rayne Kruger, she admitted she should have listened when he warned her about a costly business decision. Before becoming a household name on GBBO, Prue embarked on her culinary journey in the early 1960s by leaving England for France. She trained at the prestigious Cordon Bleu Cookery School in Paris, laying the groundwork for a distinguished career in food.