Theroux’s recounting of his love story began with him recalling how he and his now-wife met when they worked at the BBC together in 2002.

“I began seeing her around the White City building. And I remember thinking ‘wow, she’s beautiful’. She looked sort of like a French chanteuse.

“And she was sort of fashionable, but sort of not aggressively stylish. People didn’t really say ‘hipster’ in those days, but she had a touch of hipster.

“She would go out and smoke cigarettes outside in front of the building. I saw her on these little trips. I would pass her in the corridors as she went out to smoke cigarettes.

“Then at a Christmas party, I was introduced and I said, ‘oh yeah, I think I’ve seen you around’. Later on she made fun of me for saying that. She claims she once spoke to me in a lift before then and that I didn’t answer, which I find hard to believe.”

Louis Theroux just made us believe in office romances by sharing his own love story