Prue Leith has opened up about the time she tweeted the Great British Bake Off winner 12 hours early, revealing it made her feel ‘suicidal’.
On the day of the final, she tweeted (then swiftly deleted): No one told me judging a #gbbo final would be so emotional. I wanted them all to win. Bravo Sophie”.
Prue revealed that the reason for her blunder is because she was in Bhutan, and got confused about the time difference. She told the Press Association: “The time difference is massive. I thought that they got it six hours ago. I’m in too much of a state to talk about it. I fucked up.”
She apologised in another tweet, writing: "I am so sorry to the fans of the show for my mistake this morning, I am in a different time zone and mortified by my error #GBBO."
Prue’s now opened up about the mistake on This Morning, and has absolutely broken our hearts.
She told Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughy: "I think that was the worst half an hour, when I realised what I'd done.
"I was Bhutan and when I got reception in the hotel, there was this mass of tweets and one said 'Don't forget to congratulate the winner' so I tweeted straight away.
"As soon as it went out, I went into panic mode and I couldn't work my phone, I couldn't figure out how to delete it.
"In the end I rang my PA - she'd already deleted it 89 seconds after I posted it but it was too late.
They then asked how it made her feel, to which she responded: "Suicidal, I mean awful, the thing that upset me most was that it would take attention off the winner.
"Sophie has worked so hard for months and months and the column inches would be filled with my mistake than her hard work.
"Everybody was really nice about it, a lot of very famous people even tweeted or emailed me to say it's exactly what I could have done.
Aww, Prue :(
She continued: "But you have to be a real idiot to do that. Bake Off had kept the winner a secret for 8 years until I come along and screw it up".
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