Rare is the woman that doesn’t love Tina Fey. The creator of Mean Girls and 30 Rock has all the qualities of an ideal celebrity best friend: intelligent, funny, warm, career-driven and big on the power of female friendship.

And, it turns out, it’s not just women who adore Fey. Alec Baldwin – he of the spot-on Saturday Night Live Donald Trump impression – has revealed that his first encounter with the writer, actor, comedian and producer left him completely smitten.

Baldwin discusses the first time he met Fey in his new memoir, Nevertheless, an adapted extract from which was published by Vanity Fair on Tuesday.

“When I first met Tina Fey – beautiful and brunette, smart and funny, by turns smug and diffident and completely uninterested in me or anything I had to say – I had the same reaction that I'm sure many men and women have: I fell in love,” Baldwin shares.

Alec Baldwin says he “fell in love” with Tina Fey the first time they met