Bake Off star Prue Leith almost missed a TV appearance after getting locked in a BBC loo.
She panicked as the cubicle latch would not shift and worried she would miss her call to the studio.
Prue said: “The panic is just so awful, but I could not get out. You know time ticking away.
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“I just managed to force the lock in the end. The only times I am locked in anywhere is always in lavatories.”
The cookery legend is currently on the road with her first live show, titled “Nothing in Moderation”.
The 83-year-old also revealed that sexual intimacy in her later years is still as exciting as when she was a teenager.
She spoke about intimacy in her 60s with a pianist lover after her first husband died.
The Dame pushed back on societal suggestions that single women over 50 should sit and knit.
She said: “I had four years of that. I was so surprised when we first got together I could not believe that everything worked. That it was still an absolute joy.
“I was 66 and I still felt as if I was 16, overexcited and terrified to text him and ring him up. That lasted for four years.
“More older women could fall in love if they felt open to it. Somehow we indoctrinate older people.
“It is fine for men to still be sexually active. Goethe was making babies at 80, but women are somehow expected to start knitting at 50 and never think about love.”
Leith says life is wonderful with “toy boy” husband John Playfair is great after finding love with him aged 70.
She added: “He calls himself my bag carrier.”
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Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
