"Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... British food personality Nigella Lawson will replace Prue Leith on the Great British Baking Show. Leith announced last week that, after judging more than 400 challenges on the culinary program, she would step aside for Whoever joins the team she's been a part of for nine seasons. Much to Leith's delight, the show announced Monday that Lawson will be that person."
"I was so hoping it would be Nigella! Brilliant choice, Leith posted on Instagram. Lawson, 66, said, in a statement, I'm uncharacteristically rather lost for words right now! She also wished her 86-year-old predecessor well. Lawson will join Paul Hollywood, who's been a judge since the 2010 debut of The Great British Bake Off, as it's called on the other side of the pond."
Prue Leith announced she will step aside after judging more than 400 challenges and nine seasons on the Great British Bake Off. Nigella Lawson will replace Leith and join Paul Hollywood on the judging panel. Leith expressed delight at Lawson's appointment, and Lawson said she was uncharacteristically lost for words and wished her predecessor well. Lawson is known to BBC viewers from multiple cooking shows, most recently Nigella's Cook, Eat, Repeat, and appeared on Australia's My Kitchen Rules beginning in 2022. Season 16 drew 7.26 million viewers in 2025, up about 600,000 from the previous year, and the show streams on Netflix in the U.S. under the title The Great British Baking Show.
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