Great British Bake Off Star Prue Leith Had To Be Rescued From Sea During Her Italian Getaway
Prue Leith is opening up about what could have been a scary situation.
It turns out that the Great British Bake Off star revealed that she had to be rescued from sea during a recent getaway to Italy.
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Speaking to The Mirror, Prue shared that while relaxing on a motor boat off the coast of Sardinia, the engine for the small boat failed, and started to drift out to sea.
That wasn’t the end of the situation though, as the wind picked up even more and she was further out to sea than expected.
Prue explained that she was saved by the Sardinian fisherman, and he called her out for getting into the tricky situation in the first place.
“I couldn’t start it and the wind was getting up. I thought, ‘This has the makings of a really bad novel,’” she shared with the outlet about the engine failing.
Prue then said that she had attempted to flag down many others passing by, but no one stopped.
“People would pass, not close enough to shout to them but close enough to wave and I’d be waving wildly and they just waved back, thinking I was just being friendly,” she said.
When she did get someone’s attention, it was a fisherman who told her she was foolish for what happened.
“He was so angry with me. He said, ‘You tourists, you risk your lives. You could have drifted all the way to Corsica” And he just gave me absolutely blazes. And there was I… sunburnt.”
Just recently, Prue opened up about the controversial Mexican themed week on GBBT.