{"id":257198,"date":"2026-08-12T21:13:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T21:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/great-british-bake-offs-prue-leith-hospitalized-after-losing-sight-ability-to-speak\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T21:13:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T21:13:27","slug":"great-british-bake-offs-prue-leith-hospitalized-after-losing-sight-ability-to-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/great-british-bake-offs-prue-leith-hospitalized-after-losing-sight-ability-to-speak\/","title":{"rendered":"Great British Bake Off\u2019s Prue Leith Hospitalized After Losing Sight, Ability to Speak"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Prue Leith<\/strong><\/a> is opening up about a recent health scare that led to her hospitalization out of fear she was having a stroke.<\/p>\n

Leith, 86, recalled experiencing a \u201cmigraine attack\u201d during a trip to Yorkshire, England. She detailed the medical scare in a column called \u201cPrue\u2019s News\u201d in The Oldie<\/em><\/a>\u2019s September issue, out Friday, August 14, published in part by The Sun<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The former Great British Baking Show<\/em><\/a> judge noted that while she was confident about having a migraine attack \u2014 after years of dealing with the issue \u2014 her husband, John Playfair<\/strong>, called an ambulance when her speech turned into an \u201cincomprehensible jumble of disconnected words.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt followed a familiar path. First, I can see only half of whatever I\u2019m looking at,\u201d Leith wrote. \u201cThis is speedily followed by a bright circle of flickering, coloured lights in the upper right field of vision.\u201d<\/p>\n

She noted that usually if she doesn\u2019t \u201cswiftly swallow one of my migraine \u2018bombs,\u2019 (paracetamol, ibuprofen and sumatriptan) a crashing headache will follow.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leith explained that her husband, however, was convinced she was \u201chaving a stroke<\/a>\u201d when she started to speak in \u201cdisconnected words.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI tried to tell him it was just a migraine, but I couldn\u2019t string two words together,\u201d she recalled, noting that\u2019s when Playfair called their doctor.<\/p>\n

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\n Prue Leith.<\/span> Antony Jones\/Getty Images for Pimm’s<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Leith remembered telling the doctor that she could raise her arms and make a fist, insisting nothing hurt and her face wasn\u2019t drooping. The doctor, however, still called an ambulance to take her to the hospital.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ambulance man asked me the same questions, as did a nurse on arrival at A&E, and so, after a six-hour wait, did the doctor,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n

The celebrity chef<\/a> said she assured the doctor at the hospital that it was a migraine after recovering \u201ccoherent speech\u201d by the time they met.<\/p>\n

The doctor decided to do a CT scan as an extra precaution.<\/p>\n

\u201cTwo hours later, I had one, waited another hour for the results, and was released at 2 a.m.,\u201d Leith shared. \u201c[The doctor later] explained why he wanted to refer me for a brain scan, just to be sure (people of my age, 86, are prone to mini-strokes).\u201d<\/p>\n

Leith, who revealed she had her first migraine at 9 years old, said, \u201cI knew all along that all I had was a migraine.\u201d<\/p>\n

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