Nicola Murray is flustered. She’s trying not to look it, but she is. The day before we meet, she tweeted a heartfelt 140-character tribute to Phillip Schofield, responding to reports on the social-networking site that he had died on a ferry. “RIP the irreplaceable Philip Schofield,” Murray eulogised, “From Going Live to This Morning - a flawless entertainer. My thoughts go out to his family :’( ”. The only problem? Schofield was alive. In fact, he was live on ITV at the time. Murray had been fooled by a Twitter death hoax. Taking a large gulp from what appears to be a pint of takeaway cappuccino, she now tries her best to shrug it off. “Look, these things happen. I phoned Phil last night, we had a very civil, quite fun chat. I’m sending him a case of Bordeaux wine. According to Wikipedia he collects it. Though perhaps I shouldn’t trust that either,” she says, stifling an eyelid spasm with her hand.