Prue Leith, who at the moment hosts her present Cotswold Kitchen on ITV, beforehand revealed in her memoir that she drowned a litter of kittens as a toddler in South Africa
Dame Prue Leith, 83, sparked an enormous backlash after admitting to drowning a litter of kittens.
The Great British Bake Off choose who fronts Prue Leith’s Cotswold Kitchen on ITV, made the admission in her 2022 memoir I’ll Try Anything Once: My Life on a Plate. In the e book she wrote: “My mom and I, then 11, had simply drowned some kittens… and for weeks I imagined these poor lifeless creatures.
“Too many kittens was a frequent occurrence and there had come a day when my mother, unable to find homes for yet another litter, decided to drown the latest batch.” Prue recalled attempting to steer her mom in opposition to it, however her protests “were met with a firm, ‘Darling, it has to be done. They are only a few hours old. They will hardly know it’s happening’”. However, Prue recalled the helpless animals “fought just like the satan for all times”.
Prue subsequently addressed the backlash to the “extraordinarily traumatic expertise” as she said she’d turn into “public enemy No. 1” because of the revelation. “They do not learn the story they usually feed off one another,” she advised PEOPLE.
“Somebody says, ‘My God! That girl drowns kittens!’ And it simply spiralled from there. It was so terrible as a result of folks had been saying issues like, ‘I’ll by no means watch Bake Off once more.’ I imply, what’s it received to do with Bake Off? Bake Off is the kindest, most inclusive, most pleasant present on the earth.”
The Great British Bake Off choose claimed the horrific incident was a traditional incidence in Forties South Africa in a bid to keep up the cat inhabitants. Prue defined she believed her mum “thought it could be a life lesson” however as a substitute it was the “most traumatic, terrible, horrible expertise”.
“I am unable to bear the thought that individuals on Twitter actually suppose that I’d wish to drown kittens,” she added. Meanwhile, Prue argued that the Channel 4 baking competitors “would not have me on in the event that they thought I used to be a kitten drowner”.
At the time of the backlash, Prue advised HuffPost UK, who initially printed the excerpt: “I wrote about it actually in my e book. As an 11-year-old, it was an especially traumatic expertise, not one I’d overlook; nonetheless, it’s what occurred 70 years in the past. Thankfully in the present day within the U.Okay. we’ve got the selection of neutering our cats and have extra choices to home kittens.”
Prue not too long ago addressed her future with Great British Bake Off amid issues the beloved programme might transfer to Netflix because of Channel 4’s “money woes”. Prue advised the Mirror: “Oh my God, I hope to stay with Bake Off wherever it goes. But I do not suppose it is going to transfer.
“I do know lots of people are having a tough time of it and Channel 4 has misplaced numerous reveals. But I’m fairly certain whereas Channel 4 is there, they’ll grasp on to Bake Off. It is actually one in all their finest reveals. I feel it has discovered its pure home at Channel 4.”
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