Chef and writer Prue Leith reckons her novels would prove big hits as TV dramas.
The Bake Off judge, 80, said: “I have written eight novels and what I really want to do before I die is become a screenwriter. I want one of my novels to be made into a Sunday night drama.
“I always write family love stories and I think my latest ones are a trilogy of three novels which I have been trying to get on to the BBC or ITV.
She added: "I haven’t tried Netflix or Amazon.”
Speaking on Katie Piper’s Extraordinary People podcast, Prue also told how she is happy with her level of fame.
She said: “Before I was on Bake Off I had a tiny degree of fame. But even now I don’t have the degree of fame that is limiting.
“If I was as famous as Gwyneth Paltrow or Madonna or Beyonce, I wouldn’t be able to walk down the road without being stopped by everybody and it would be terrible.”
Prue, married to retired clothes designer John Playfair, added: “If I go out to a pub or bar somebody will recognise me but it’s really kind.
"Those people are really nice and I think the least I can do is be cheerful about it.”
But she admits recognition has caused at least one headache.
She added: “The only time I’ve ever been mobbed was at The Good Food Show.
“I was doing a demonstration and I thought I’d get there early and see the stalls, and I couldn’t get to a single stall because everybody wanted a photograph.
“I thought, ‘My god, this is what it’s like if you’re Jamie Oliver!’”
