If you watched the latest batch of The Great British Baking Show's holiday specials, you might be wondering why Prue Leith was on crutches during both episodes. As it turns out, the famously chill show is more dangerous than expected - Prue sustained the injury while filming!

Prue told the painful, hilarious story for The Spectator. "Picture the scene: we are filming the opening link for The Great British Bake Off," she wrote. "Here I am in the woods, dressed in a lion suit; Paul Hollywood is the Tin Man, Sandi Toksvig the Scarecrow, and, guess what, Noel Fielding is Dorothy. I leap out on to the yellow brick road, roaring - I feel a hammer blow to my ankle, and end up whimpering like the Cowardly Lion I'm portraying. I have snapped my Achilles tendon." The set medic, "who has had nothing more exciting than bakers' cut fingers to deal with for three years,...