Former Great British Bake Off star, Dame Prue Leith, has shared her funeral plans and what will happen to her assets after her death. The 85-year-old recently admitted that she "does not have much longer" and wants to spend as much time with her husband as possible.

Speaking to Holly Rubenstein on The Travel Diaries podcast about her other half, John Playfair, the 85-year-old restaurateur said: “I haven’t got much longer. I’m 85 and I want to spend as much time as I can with him.” The restaurateur added: “So, if we are filming abroad, or like next week, we’re going to New York, because I’ve got to publicise the American baking show, then I’m now old enough for my agent to say ‘I’m sorry, but she has to ring her husband, because she’s 85, she needs someone to carry the bags. She doesn’t quite say, ‘She needs a carer’ but it’s pretty close.”

The TV personality also opened up on exactly where she hopes her multi-million-pound fortune will end up after her death. During a recent interview with the I paper, Dame Prue shared how suggestions that her wealth totalled a whopping £85m couldn't be further from the truth, saying: "I've read I'm worth £85m, which is total rubbish. I have no idea where that figure came from, and I don't have a tenth of that."

Despite the "total rubbish" reports, the baker went on to explain what will happen to her fortune after her death. "I do also want to give my children as much money as I possibly can," she said. "I believe it's better to give it away or spend it than have it sitting in the bank."

After seeing the pain that her brother went through before his death, Prue also shared that she was now in favour of assisted dying. Her sibling, David, died in 2012 after a battle with bone cancer.

As a patron for the charity Dignity in Dying, Prue has now disclosed her contingency plan if she is ever faced with insufferable declining health. She openly confessed her willingness to "top" herself.

Speaking to The i, she expressed: "I hope the assisted dying bill goes through. I've been campaigning for it for 12 years, ever since my elder brother died such a horrible death.

"If the law is passed, and I get to the stage when I know that I'm about to have a really horrible time, I will top myself. If the law isn't passed, I'll probably do it anyway, because I'll be dead. They can hardly prosecute me."