Three hours into my first PokerPlayer assignment and a bra-less Helen Chamberlain is enthusiastically shaking her booty inches from my face.

It’s an interesting experience and one that is entirely justified. We’re in a windowless room in a London hotel, and the Soccer AM presenter is ostensibly here to promote the Ladbrokes Poker Million final.

Effectively the Tiswas of football programmes, Soccer AM has been lulling the nation out of its collective hangover for an astonishing 13 years, with Chamberlain providing a glamorous lower division foil to co-host Tim Lovejoy’s Chelsea smugness.

Originally from Somerset, she’s a devoted Torquay United fan, lured by the bright lights of Plainmoor during a spell working on the English Riviera’s holiday camps.