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Tina Campbell

Great British Bake Off’s Prue Leith admits she once ‘gave 30 people food poisoning’

Prue Leith has shared a disaster from her early days running a catering company

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Dame Prue Leith has revealed she gave 30 people food poisoning after serving up a dodgy chicken dish, with one guest almost “ending up in the morgue”.

The Great British Bake Off judge, 82, recalled the incident from the early days of her catering career when her company, Leith’s Good Food, was hired to cater an event.

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