Prue Leith was told to add "more sex" to her latest novel.
The ‘Great British Bake Off’ judge admitted she thought she’d penned the "perfect book" with ‘The Lost Son’, but her editor reckoned the story needed to focus on the racier content rather than "too much food".
Speaking to The Sun newspaper’s Bizarre TV column, she said: "I keep thinking I’ve written the perfect book – then my editor says, ‘Actually, you should dig deeper. There’s too much business,’ or, ‘There’s too much food in it,’ because of course I get carried away.
"And she says, ‘We need more sex, more love’. So I put in more sex and more love. Actually, I enormously enjoy writing about it."
Her comments come after she previously revealed she asked ‘Bake Off’ host Sandi Toksvig’s wife Debbie for advice on the book, and thanked her for having "approved my chapters on a lesbian love affair".
She joked in the acknowledgements: "Looking at the list you could be forgiven for thinking that I knew very little about anything. But at least the story is my own, and I know it’s the better for the help of my friends."
Channel 4 star Prue recently admitted her role on the baking show is the "easiest job" she’s ever had, as she joked all she has to do is turn up, "eat cake" and give her thoughts before heading home and collecting a pay cheque.
She revealed: "I don’t say this too loudly so they want to drop my salary, but the fact is, it is the easiest job I’ve ever done. I don’t have to write a script, I don’t have to learn any lines, I don’t have to rehearse anything, I don’t have to make up jokes like [presenters] Sandi and Noel [Fielding] do.
"All I have to do is walk on, eat cake, say what I think, walk off and get paid. What is wrong with that?"
Prue Leith enjoyed adding ‘more sex’ into new novel The Lost Son
