Sara Cox is happy she is hosting one of this week’s three special episodes of The Great British Sewing Bee in aid of Children in Need rather than competing against the celebrity stitchers, who include Louie Spence, Gaby Roslin and Hairy Biker Dave Myers.
“I’m not very good at sewing,” laughs the DJ, 39, who lives in London with her ad executive husband Ben Cyzer and their two children, Isaac, six, and Renee, four, plus Lola, ten, from her first marriage. “I have a sewing box because I’m like a proper mum if I do and when my eldest started school I was all super-keen and stitched in name tags to her school uniform. But by the third one I was writing their names in their clothes with pen.
“I…