Dame Prue Leith surprises with “brilliantly bonkers” catwalk for 86th birthday

Dame Prue Leith is 86 in fashion as she spent the eve of her birthday (Tuesday 17 February) taking on the catwalk at London Fashion Week – and everybody must see it. The now former Great British Bake Off decide turned heads as she strutted down the runway in a brilliantly bonkers avant-garde look, and her Bake Off co-stars had been there to cheer her on.

Dame Prue was starring in Vin + Omi’s vogue present and donned a wonderful flared sleeve coat in fiery orange, with a splattered pink shirt that includes dramatic ruffles. Never one to overlook an identical glasses second, she co-ordinated her black and pink specs with geometric earrings to accessorise her look. The pièce de résistance of the ensemble nevertheless, was – in fact – her unmissable floral hair show.

Dame Prue’s silver hair was spiked up with quantity to deal with the stems of a superb botanical show, which took her look to the subsequent stage. Former Bake Off presenter and good friend of Prue, Matt Lucas, was on the entrance row in help, and shared a video of her crowning second as she took off down the catwalk within the superb look.

A more in-depth take a look at Prue’s spectacular hair show.

“Lovely to see my good friend @prueleith on the eve of her 86th birthday, trying as beautiful as ever, on the great Vin + Omi vogue present,” he wrote. Matt was seated with Prue’s husband, John Playfair, and present Bake Off presenter Alison Hammond, who he revealed he’d met for the primary time that night. It appeared it had been an pleasurable assembly as he wrote a touching message about Alison, sharing a selfie of the 2 of them collectively titled, “Always meet your heroes.”

In a caption, Matt expanded on their first in-person night collectively, in typical humorous vogue. “We’ve swapped countless messages and voice notes in the last couple of years but never actually met – until tonight,” he wrote. “We chatted about how cold it gets inside the Bake Off tent. And then about how hot it gets inside the Bake Off tent. And about lots of other things. What a lovely lady.” Replying within the feedback to the submit Alison wrote, “What a special treat meeting you”.

Alison and Noel Fielding are the present Bake Off presenters, with Alison taking on from Matt Lucas in 2023. The judges all through each their tenures within the tent have been Paul Hollywood and Dame Prue, till Prue introduced in January that she can be stepping again. It was confirmed shortly afterwards that Nigella Lawson can be taking on as the brand new decide, with the upcoming 2026 collection anticipated later this 12 months as her debut.