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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'.

The slurred speech followed a 'migraine attack' where she could 'see only half of whatever I’m looking at' - however this was a symptom she had experienced before.

'This is speedily followed by a bright circle of flickering, coloured lights in the upper right field of vision,' the national treasure added.

The terrifying encounter was recounted in her column Prue’s News which appears in the September issue of The Oldie magazine, according to The Sun.

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