Dame Prue Leith shared her amazement at the success of The Great British Bake Off across the pond in the US, during an appearance on Loose Women.
The Bake Off judge and chef, 82, sat down with the panel of Ruth Langsford, Denise Welch, Janet Street-Porter and Gloria Hunniford to discuss her new tour.
The South African-born food lover touched on the explosion in popularity of the Channel 4 show in the US as she shared the most common questions she gets from fans.
She told the panel the most regularly asked question is ‘Are Paul Hollywood’s eyes really that blue?’
She laughed: “Paul Hollywood’s eyes, Paul Hollywood's tan are the chief things. A lot about colour and specs and stuff.”
She continued: “What I enjoy about it is, because I've done a lot of other stuff other than cooking in my life, I quite like it when I get questions about teaching children to cook in schools or the importance of being able to die when you want to die.”
During her cooking career, she opened Leith’s School of Food and Wine in 1974 - selling it almost 20 years later.
Prue has also campaigned for euthanasia after watching her older brother David die in agony in 2012.
The Great British Bake Off judge is a patron of the campaigning organisation Dignity in Dying despite her son, Conservative MP Danny Kruger, 48, fighting tirelessly to stop a law permitting assisted dying from ever becoming a reality.
Prue has opened up about why she thinks Matt Lucas decided to exit the hit Channel 4 show, after he announced he was stepping down from hosting alongside Noel Fielding at the end of last year.
During an appearance on The One Show, Prue said: “I'm really sad because I love the guy.
“He's such fun and he got on so well with Noel. They were just brilliant, but I do understand why.
“If you're close to Matt, you do know that he never stops working and he has so many projects and people keep asking him to do things and he loves theatre... he absolutely loves that kind of show.”
She continued: “You can't commit to it if you're on Bake Off, because we film that all summer. So I think he thought three years is enough. But I think he loved it and we're really sorry.”
