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Dame Prue Leith shares health update after being rushed to hospital over suspected stroke

Former Great British Bake Off judge Prue Leith has issued a positive update on her health after worrying fans when she revealed she had been rushed to hospital over a suspected stroke

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Prue Leith has shared an update on her health(Image: Ken McKay/ITV/REX/Shutterstock)

Prue Leith has insisted that she is "alive and kicking" after her recent hospital dash.

The former Great British Bake Off judge, 86, who is married to John Playfair, revealed in her magazine column that she recently suffered a "migraine attack" but was unable to speak, so her husband became convinced she was having a stroke so he raised the alarm and she was taken off in an ambulance.

Now, the TV star has issued a positive update on the situation, and took to Instagram on Friday to say: "For those that have messaged me, I wrote a piece of @theoldiemagazine about my trip to hospital a couple of months ago. 'I was fine shortly after and I am very much alive and kicking now!"

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Prue Leith shared this update onto her Instagram

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Prue has been married to John Playfair for almost a decade (Image: Getty Images for Pimm's)

Just days ago, Prue, who quit Bake Off earlier this year after almost a decade on air, explained that the whole incident unfolded when she and John were staying in Yorkshire.

Writing in her Prue's News column for the upcoming edition of The Oldie, Prue said: "A few weeks ago, staying in Yorkshire, I had a migraine attack. It followed a familiar path. First, I can see only half of whatever Im looking at.

This is speedily followed by a bright circle of flickering, coloured lights in the upper right field of vision. I dont swiftly swallow one of my migraine bombs (three pills: paracetamol, ibuprofen and sumatriptan), a crashing headache will follow."

In quotes published by The Sun she said: This time, my incomprehensible jumble of disconnected words convinced John I was having a stroke. I tried to tell him it was just a migraine, but I couldnt string two words together."

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Prue's husband thought she was having a stroke but she knew it was a migraine (Image: Ken McKay/ITV/REX/Shutterstock)

Prue then explained that even though she could in fact raise her right arm and her face was not drooping, both of which are symptoms used to check for a stroke, the operator that John spoke to decided to send an ambulance and she soon found herself at Harrogate Hospital.

What followed for Prue was a six-hour wait in A&E and after eventually undergoing a CT scan at midnight, she was released at two o'clock in the morning.

She then concluded her column by noting that whilst she "knew all along" that she was having a migraine, but because loss of speech is a major symptom of a stroke, it was better "safe than sorry" in this case.

Prue, who was also a judge on Great British Menu, also told fans that she suffered her first stroke at the age of just nine. She explained that, at the time, her speech went "bananas" and she suddenly said "I want fish!"

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