{"id":1672101,"date":"2022-10-04T12:49:30","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T16:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1672101"},"modified":"2022-10-04T12:51:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T16:51:28","slug":"the-great-british-baking-show-judge-recalls-drowning-a-bag-of-kittens-as-a-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-great-british-baking-show-judge-recalls-drowning-a-bag-of-kittens-as-a-child\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Great British Baking Show\u2019 Judge Recalls Drowning A Bag of Kittens As A Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-great-british-baking-show-judge-recalls-drowning-a-bag-of-kittens-as-a-child%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1672101&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>One of the judges from \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/reality-tv\">The Great British Baking Show<\/a>\u201d revealed a disturbing story from her childhood which involved drowning a bag of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/animal-rights\">kittens<\/a> while she was living on a farm.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/celebrities\">Prue Leith<\/a> recounted the gruesome incident in her new memoir, \u201cI\u2019ll Try Anything Once,\u201d People <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/food\/the-great-british-baking-show-judge-prue-leith-reveals-she-drowned-a-bag-of-kittens-as-a-child\/\">reported<\/a>. The 82-year-old reality competition star was allegedly asked by her mother to help kill the hours-old kittens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mother and I, then 11, had just drowned some kittens\u2026 and for weeks I imagined those poor dead creatures,\u201d Leith recalled in the book. \u201cToo many kittens was a frequent occurrence and there had come a day when my mother, unable to find homes for yet another litter, decided to drown the latest batch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The competition show judge said that she tried to stop her mother from killing the newborn cats but she was \u201cmet with a firm, \u2018Darling, it has to be done. They are only a few hours old. They will hardly know it\u2019s happening.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Leith remembers how the kittens \u201cfought like the devil for life\u201d as she \u201cheld the bag under the water until the last kitten had stopped mewing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Great British Baking Show\u201d judge told The Huffington Post why she chose to include the story in her memoir despite potential backlash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis happened in the early 1940\u2032s, when I was 11 years old, being brought up on a farm in South Africa,\u201d she said in a statement shared with HuffPo. \u201cI wrote about it honestly in my book, as an 11-year-old it was an extremely traumatic experience, not one I would forget, however it is what happened 70 years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThankfully today in the UK we have the choice of neutering our cats and have more options to home kittens, although sadly in some parts of the world it is still an issue,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<p>Leith\u2019s revelations come on the heels of another shocking memoir, this one from former child star Jennette McCurdy. In her recent release, \u201cI\u2019m Glad My Mother Died,\u201d McCurdy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/former-child-star-details-abuse-in-new-hit-memoir-im-glad-my-mom-died\">described<\/a> how her mother\u2019s controlling behavior and obsession with fame affected her childhood.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy earliest memories of childhood were of heaviness, and chaos,\u201d the actress told People magazine last year. \u201cMy mom\u2019s emotions were so erratic that it was like walking a tightrope every day. The mood fluctuations were daily.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mom had always dreamt of being a famous actor and she became obsessed with making me a star,\u201d she explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the judges from \u201cThe Great British Baking Show\u201d revealed a disturbing story from her childhood which involved drowning a bag of kittens while she was living on a farm. Prue Leith recounted the gruesome incident in her new memoir, \u201cI\u2019ll Try Anything Once,\u201d People reported. 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