You won’t BELIEVE what they tell me!

The most famous person I’ve met since GBBO is Stephen Hawking, apparently he’s a big fan! Great British Bake Off star

Selasi Gbormittah reveals at the Amy Winehouse Foundation gala that the theoretical physicist is a closet baking buff. I was horrified to see they had the Queen at a champagne reception lifting her glass and saying “cheers” like some yobbo! The Crown’s series adviser

Major David Rankin Hunt – who worked at St James Palace – tells me at Robert Lacey’s book launch that he insisted on a scene being changed.

My books do have things in common. Bonnets. So many bonnets!

Margaret Atwood – author of the recently televised The Handmaid’s Tale – admits that her work has a theme. Do I talk about my sex life in my new book? I’m not doing a Prue Leith, if that is what you mean. She’ll say anything! Meow! Gloria Hunniford, right, gets catty about fellow BBC veteran Prue at the launch of her new autobiography, My Life. Do you know where I want to be right now? I want to be laying in my bed in some tartan pyjamas. Dame Joan Collins joins me at a premiere – to complain about being invited to so many premieres...

I’m still a teenager at heart. That’s one thing that’s carried me through life.

The Duchess of York gives me her top life tip when we met at the BFI Luminous gala.