The daily gossip: Prue Leith gets vaccinated, Dionne Warwick learns Billie Eilish's name, and more

Prue Leith gets vaccinated, Dionne Warwick learns Billie Eilish's name, and more

Prue Leith.
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1. Prue Leith gets vaccinated, immediately shares mango daiquiri recipe

Everyone is in agreement that The Great British Baking Show judge Prue Leith must be protected at all costs, which is why it is such good news that the 80-year-old celebrity chef got one of the first COVID-19 vaccinations at her doctor's office in Oxfordshire, England. Leith had initially planned to spend Tuesday moving houses, but was "absolutely delighted" when she got the call about getting the vaccine and dropped everything. "Who wouldn't want immunity from #Covid19 with a painless jab??" she tweeted, before sharing her — apparently unrelated — recipe for a mango daiquiri.

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