Mike Tindall candidly admitted a few years ago that he had most of his dinners delivered to his door because his wife, Zara, had stopped cooking for him when she gave up eating red meat after the birth of their three children. But now Princess Anne's son-in-law hopes to prove himself in the kitchen. I can reveal that the former England rugby captain wants to appear on the celebrity edition of The Great British Bake Off. 'I should do Bake Off,' he tells me at the Nordoff Robbins Legends of Rugby Dinner 2025 at the Grosvenor House hotel in Mayfair, where he was joined by Zara, the King's niece. 'I don't cook because I'm not skilled enough, but I'm more of a baker. I'm good at making bread and butter puddings and brownies.' Tindall, 46, adds of the hit Channel 4 show: 'I'm a big fan of the series.' Friends star David Schwimmer, TV presenter Gabby Logan and athlete Mo Farah are among those who have taken part in the programme's charity edition, The Great Celebrity Bake Off: Stand Up To Cancer. Tindall is, of course, no stranger to reality television, having competed in 2022 on I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here!, when he finished fourth out of 12. During the first 2020 lockdown, he showed off his baking skills with a social media photograph of 'delicious' treats he cooked up. 'I decided to make my world-famous brownies,' he said at the time. '[I] have to say it was a success.' At the Legends of Rugby Dinner, Tindall says: 'Zara is an amazing cook – she should go on MasterChef while I do Bake Off. 'I will follow a recipe to a tee, but Zara will open a fridge and make something out of things that aren't meant to go together.' Tindall admits that home baking has its limitations. 'If you keep baking those things for your wife, she won't like you in the end. 'If you only make puddings every now and then, they can have a sweet tooth but you won't make her fat.' Gwynnie: I was once lonely, too If you’re alone today, try to find comfort in this advice from Gwyneth Paltrow: 'I remember a few Valentine's Days on my own when I would cook for myself, have a glass of wine, and invite a deeper conversation with myself to emerge. 'Those evenings always left me with the same truth – the closer I get to myself, the better my life feels, the more comfortable I am inside myself and in my interactions with others.' After 'consciously uncoupling' from her first husband, Coldplay singer Chris Martin, Paltrow, 52, wed TV producer Brad Falchuk. Helen's v.v. sanguine about Bridget snub Bridget Jones works in PR – but her creator, Helen Fielding, might have had a career in crisis communications, judging by her reaction to the fact that the new film – Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy – is to bypass cinemas altogether in the US. 'I completely respect what Universal decided to do,' Fielding, 66, says of the Hollywood studio's decision to send the film, which stars Renee Zellweger, straight to TV following poor box-office returns in the US from the previous instalment, Bridget Jones's Baby. She adds: 'They know what they're doing. It's a good movie to watch on the sofa, I think.' How very Bridget... TV movie: Zellweger and Fielding Raiding Mum's closet, Amy? Oh, to be a fly on the wall when Bollywood star Amy Jackson asked her mother, Marguerita, if she could wear one of her dresses to a red-carpet event this week. Amy, who is nine months pregnant, tells me at the British Asian Trust Annual Gala Dinner at the Peninsula London that her mum wore it to her wedding – and it's three sizes bigger than Amy usually wears. The 33-year-old, who arrived with her husband, Gossip Girl star Ed Westwick, 37, both left, adds: 'She's 5ft 5in and I didn't realise the bump raises it, so it's like an ankle-grazer.' Richard E Grant's acting ambitions When Richard E Grant told his father, Henrik, he wanted to be an actor, he says the ex-head of education in Swaziland told him: 'I know you are serious about becoming an actor. 'But I'm really worried because, statistically, what I've been able to find out about acting is that you'll be destitute and spend your life in make-up and tights narrowly avoiding a buggery.' Withnail And I star Richard, 67, says cheekily: 'All of which has come true!' CoE Bishop is a member of elite private club At the Church of England's General Synod, a debate this week about working-class ministry was chaired by Jonathan Baker, Bishop of Fulham, who can also be found at Mayfair's Savile Club, of which he's a member, where the annual subscription costs some £2,000 and a bottle of Chateau Lynch Bages 2010 will set you back £210. Stapleton forgets son has powers of attorney BBC veteran John Stapleton, 78, is still able to find humour in his Parkinson's disease. On the Movers & Shakers podcast he recalls a friend telling him to give his son Nick power of attorney. He adds: 'I rang Nick and said, 'Our friend said I should give you lasting power of attorney'. He said, 'Dad, you already have, and the fact you can't remember is a perfect illustration of why'.' Dutiful duke's poignant visit It's 70 years since the Duke of Kent was commissioned into the Royal Scots Greys to serve alongside the old guard from the wartime generation. Yet even now, with his 90th birthday in sight – an October milestone – he continues to soldier on. But few of the duties he continues to perform will be as poignant as his current visit to Dresden, exactly 80 years since the beautiful German city was destroyed by RAF and US Air Force fire-bombing. The duke is the long-standing patron of the Dresden Trust, formed in response to a plea from the city in 1993, when, following the fall of the Iron Curtain, it strove to restore itself to its former glory. The trust raised more than £1million from the British public and created the 21ft golden cross and orb that adorns the steeple of the rebuilt Frauenkirche cathedral – an enduring symbol of friendship and reconciliation between the two nations.