Prue Leith: I don’t need to wear my famous specs any more… despite owning 24 different pairs!

Prue Leith has revealed she doesn’t need to wear her trademark glasses any longer – after having an operation to remove cataracts.

The 84-year-old Bake Off judge is known for her colourful specs and recently boasted she owns 24 pairs.

But last year she went under the knife, and as a result has no need for glasses.

However, she says she can’t stop wearing them as she likes them so much – and she joked that she needed to be seen with them on to advertise her Specs by Prue range.

Last year she went under the knife and as a result has no need for glasses

Talking to Woman’s Weekly magazine, the celebrity chef said of her glasses: ‘I don’t actually need my specs any more, but I love them and you can’t sell a range of specs if you don’t wear them.

‘I got an eye test, and while I was there, they told me I’d got cataracts beginning that I’d have to have removed.

‘My sight wasn’t blurry or anything.

I had both eyes done together, which is unusual.

‘They like to do them separately in case something goes wrong, but I didn’t have the time for that.’