I made George Clooney’s birthday cake — I had no idea I was baking for Hollywood royalty

For busy British baker Holly Tait, every week is Cake Week at Project Cakery , her in demand small business on the edge of England’s elite Cotswolds region. So when a stranger contacted her out of the blue asking for 3 10 inch cakes to celebrate the 61st birthday of somebody named George, she considered turning down the gig.

“It was short notice and a lot of pressure because I already had r — I shouldn’t really have said yes,” the frazzled flour flogger, 22, told SWNS. The background to the stranger’s simple, “subtle” request, Tait said, was that there was a film being made in the area, and the director’s birthday was coming up.

“It just needs to say ‘Happy Birthday George’ and should follow the theme of water and boating,” the icing queen remembers being told. Beyond that, she was invited to exercise her own creativity, but just to make sure that there was enough cake for 200 people. Before long, Tait found out that the stranger was George Clooney’s personal assistant; the “E.R.” actor was in England directing “The Boys in the Boat,” a retelling of the true story of the glorious gold win enjoyed by the American rowing team at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.

Tait was asked to keep her small role in the making of the film a secret until the movie was finally released jus. “I was told not to say anything until the movie came out,” she said. “From my point of view it was just another cake order — but it was picked up in a private taxi! It was a Victoria sponge, nothing fancy, just a crowd pleaser,” Tait said.

It worked — she was sent a photo the following day, with a note saying the cakes were “delicious.” “I didn’t even know it was for the George Clooney — but I worked extra hard to make it happen,” she recounted. Project Cakery specializes in “bespoke, stunning wedding & celebration cakes with GF & VG options.” Tait has been baking cakes for her clients since she turned 18..