Sue Perkins, star of The Great British Bake Off, has given a caution following her encounter with a hallucinogenic substance.
The 54-year-old TV broadcaster co-hosted the popular Channel 4 show with comedic sidekick Mel Geidroyc from 2010 to 2016, before moving on to other projects such as travel programmes.
Her most recent work was Sue Perkins: Lost In Alaska, a three-part Channel 5 documentary that caused some confusion during a Behind the Scenes discussion on This Morning.
Sue was appearing on the ITV show to discuss her current game show, Double The Money, when the conversation went to her travel series.
It was discovered that earlier in the morning, she had spoken with This Morning anchor Cat Deeley and writer Tom Swarbrick, during which the term ‘Alaska’ was confused with the similar-sounding name of psychoactive Ayahuasca.
The South American drug has hallucinogenic properties, leaving Sue warning: ‘Don’t do it kids.’
Cat had been explaining: ‘We were having a really interesting chat, where Tom was talking and he thought, where was he talking about?’
Sue clarified: ‘He was talking about Ayahuasca, the hallucinogenic drug that is often taken in South America, and you were talking about Alaska, the final frontier.
‘I mean, it was an incredible… a very different concept. I was trying to entertain both of these concepts it was amazing!’
‘Couple of extra consonants and a different continent,’ Ben Shephard chimed in with.
Sue added: ‘I’ve done both! Don’t do it kids!’
Talking about her adventures in Alaska, Sue went on to reveal a moment that turned rather violent.
‘I absolutely loved Alaska, it’s one of the last places on Earth where you can go somewhere and you’re the first boots on the ground, I’ve been to places where no human being has been,’ she said.
‘I feel conflicted because on one hand it’s great and on the other hand they could have had anybody, but most of the places I go are much busier than that.’
Probed on her ‘run-in with the wildlife’ in Alaska, Sue went on: ‘It was quite a full-on experience.’
‘I was going to feed the baby moose, and then baby moose was much bigger than I expected!’ she added.
‘It was quite violent, my shoulder was almost dislocated during that feed!’ she said, recalling how she was ‘blasted against the fence and panicked’.
This Morning airs weekdays from 10am on ITV1.
Source My Celebrity Life.