Ex-Bake Off judge Prue Leith has revealed she was rushed to hospital after her husband feared she was having a stroke. The 86-year-old was unable to speak while on holiday in Yorkshire, leading to her husband, John Playfair, frantically calling 999 after her speech became an 'incomprehensible jumble of disconnected words'. 'This is speedily followed by a bright circle of flickering, coloured lights in the upper right field of vision,' the national treasure added. Ex-Bake Off judge Prue Leith was rushed to hospital after her husband, John Playfair, feared she was having a strokeAt the hospital, she regained her ability to speak and underwent a CT scan, despite protestations that it was instead her migraine. She was eventually released in the early hours of the morning after the doctors analysed the scan results.