Meet the stars who love to knit

Jimmy Hill

Former footballer and commentator Jimmy Hill knows his 'yarn forward' from his 'centre forward'. Back in 1996, he was at a longest knitted scarf fundraising event in aid of St Catherine's Hospice in East Sussex, when he was asked to pose as if knitting the scarf. He commented that he didn't feel a fraud with the needles as he did actually learn to knit as a boy. Our sources don't reveal whether he ever knitted his own football scarf or hat...