Richard Madeley is wearing shorts, sitting in his garden, enjoying the morning sunshine as he takes my video call. It’s an upside to home working in lockdown, he agrees, until a bee pays him far too much attention and he jumps up and scurries back inside.
Safely within four walls, he faces another problem. The smell of disinfectant. He tells me: “ Donald Trump would love to be in our house right now, because it reeks of Dettol.
He could inhale to his heart’s content.” This is a downside to homeworking for Richard and wife Judy Finnigan, who had the house deepcleaned last week when they finished filming a five-part series of Richard & Judy: Keep Reading and Carry On from their living room.