Renée Zellweger The Oscar winning actress fell in love with Grasmere Gingerbread during the filming of Miss Potter in the Lake District during 2006. “Phew, Grasmere Gingerbread, that’s some good stuff,” she said. The star of Bridget Jones’s Diary spent several weeks in Cumbria for the period biopic in which she played children’s author and illustrator Beatrix Potter. The 39-year-old Texan-born actress first became known to worldwide audiences starring opposite Tom Cruise (another fan of Grasmere Gingerbread) in Jerry Maguire before going on to win her Oscar for best supporting actress in Cold Mountain in 2004. She has been linked romantically to George Clooney, Jim Carrey, White Stripes singer Jack White, Luke Perry of Beverly Hills 90210 fame and was briefly married to singer Kenny Chesney for just four months in 2005. She claimed to have fallen in love with the Lake District during Miss Potter. “I would love to have a home here. It is extraordinarily beautiful and immaculate,” she declared. You’re welcome back anytime, Renée. Tom Cruise On a visit to the Lake District he visited the shop on more than one occasion! Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise turned everyone’s heads when he visited the Grasmere Gingerbread Shop whilst holidaying in the area with former wife Nicole Kidman. Described as the world’s most powerful celebrity by Forbes magazine in 2006, this handsome actor has starred in several blockbusters including Top Gun, Mission Impossible and Collateral. He is a well-known advocate of the Church of Scientology and his sofa-jumping antics on the Opray Winfrey Show caused a media storm in the United States. Tom bought several tins of Grasmere Gingerbread and enthused about the atmosphere inside our Victorian shop. Come back soon, Tom! Antony Cotton The popular Coronation Street actor swapped the bar of the Rovers Return for the counter of the Grasmere Gingerbread Shop during a weekend break in the Lake District. Warm, modest and witty, he charmed employees and customers alike with his friendly effervescent banter. Whilst best-known for playing gay barman Sean Tully in the hit ITV soap opera, Anthony is an accomplished all-round actor and entertainer having starred in the TV drama Queer as Folk, BBC comedy series Absolutely Fabulous and the film Love is the Devil alongside Daniel Craig and Derek Jacobi. He also won the second series of Soapstar Superstar, donating his prize of £200,000 to the Elton John Aids Foundation, as well as hosting his own Antony Cotton chat show. But he is best known for his unlucky-in-love camp Corrie character Sean - a portrayal that has won the actor seven awards since bringing him to the small screen in 2003. If Antony ever decides to hang up his barman’s apron and serve Betty’s hotpot for the last time, he is more than welcome to stand behind the counter of our shop and shout: “Grasmere Gingerbread... coming right up!”   Back to Which Celebrity Eats Me..