Great British Bake Off choose Prue Leith has admitted her romance along with her late husband Rayne Kruger started as a secret affair.

The 83-year-old admits she had "a long affair" with fellow South African Rayne, who died in 2002, aged 80. She remembers how he was even married to her mom's finest pal on the time.

In her forthcoming autobiography, Prue will clarify how property developer and writer Rayne ultimately left his spouse, who was the late South African actress Nan Munro.

But Prue says she by no means requested her husband to depart his spouse, reports the Mirror.

The tv star admits she had reservations about revealing how she met her husband in her memoir, however determined within the fascinating of holding issues fascinating for the reader, opted to inform the total story.

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"I never asked him to leave his wife because I was very happy," Prue confesses to Kate Thornton on the White Wine Question Time podcast.

"I had none of the duties of life and all of the pleasures of somebody who loved me. I wasn’t pressing for marriage. They all remained great friends.

"We did have 13 secret years and no person ever guessed as a result of we have been discreet.

"But it was easier in a way because he was a family friend, chairman of my company, and he’d helped me enormously and everyone knew we were great friends."

Prue added: "We didn’t go out to dinner or anything that would create any kind of suspicion. If people saw us together they thought it was because we worked together."

Prue says, surprisingly, Nan forgave each Rayne and Prue when she found the affair.

Discussing how she and her late husband remained buddies with Nan, Prue added: "Rayne was determined. He said, ‘We don’t have enough friends to lose them. We all love each other, we’re not going to let this destroy us’. And Nan took her cue from Rayne, or he from her.

"I keep in mind one in every of her actually well-known actress mates mentioned to her, ‘How can you go and have weekends and stay with Prue and Rayne? That woman, she’s a witch, she stole your husband.'

"And Nan said, ‘Are you going to have me every weekend? Shall I come to you instead?’ She said, ‘They are my friends, I love them. Yes, it’s been hard, but Prue’s still Prue.' She was amazingly forgiving. And an extraordinary woman."

Prue was 62 when Rayne died in 2002. The Bake Off star has since remarried, tying the knot with English clothier John Playfair in 2016.