Great British Bake Off star Prue Leith has hit out at the amount of TV cookery programmes.
She added bosses justify airing so many as “ratings are everything”.
Prue, 79, said: “My own opinion is there are too many cookery shows on telly. I don’t watch cookery shows because for me they go too slowly. I think ‘I know what he’s doing now, why doesn’t he get on with it?’.”
“But if you’re learning to cook from telly, you need it to be slow.
“I would prefer there to be less cookery, but broadcasters are doing what the public wants.”
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The Bake Off judge had the same role on BBC show Great British Menu and Channel 4’s My Kitchen Rules.
Chef, cookery writer and novelist Prue hopes to remain on Bake Off as long as former judge Mary Berry did.
Prue said: “My great ambition is to at least equal Mary Berry.
“She did seven years, and she started at the same age that I started which was 76, so I’ll have to go on like she did until she was 83 or whatever.”
Prue’s novel The Lost Son is published by Quercus in hardback on April 11.
