Nigella Lawson will be "wonderful" as the new judge on The Great British Bake Off, her predecessor Dame Prue Leith has said.
Dame Prue, who lives in Oxfordshire, announced that she would be leaving the reality baking competition in January, saying : "Now feels like the right time to step back".
Broadcaster Channel 4 later revealed Lawson would become only the programme's fourth permanent judge, alongside mainstay Paul Hollywood, for its 17th series later this year.
When asked by BBC Radio Oxford if she had any guidance for her successor, Dame Prue said: "She doesn't need any advice from me."
"She's so good and she will bring to it's a whole fresh look and she'll be wonderful," Dame Prue said.
