Jon Snow in Heat magazine with Rachel Stevens

I little thought I’d ever make it into Heat magazine.

But a vast double spread photograph this week finds me one side of the photo and the Strictly Come Dancing and S Club 7 star Rachel Stevens the other.

I was doing nothing more exciting than posting a form to the tax man, when I became aware of a gaggle of paparazzi on motor bikes and on foot in the middle of London’s Primrose Hill village.

There’s a good Greek restaurant on the corner opposite the post box and it is said that Kate Moss eats there – a relief to know that she eats at all.

Paps have been seen before, staking her out, or even ‘out-steaking her’.

I assumed this was their mission again, and maybe it was. Suddenly the shutters began crackling, and I realised I was in the frame.

I told them I was only a hack and of no interest. Ms Stevens, who I had not met, passed and said sweetly, “hello Jon”, and I thought no more about it. So this is what sells Heat?