It’s about 11 o’clock in the morning, and Hayek, 42, in town to promote her new role as an ambassador for Unicef, has just returned from the studios of This Morning, where Eamonn Holmes — the plonker — misheard her when she said she was part Lebanese, and thought she said “lesbian”. Hayek wasn’t fazed at all. This is, after all, the woman who took off her clothes in that famous elevator scene in Ugly Betty; the woman whom the American chat-show host Jimmy Kimmel immortally serenaded with: “I’m very hairy, you are a mummy, your name is Salma, I like salami”; the woman whom the funniest human being in the entire universe, Tina Fey, called personally to appear on her cult comedy television series, 30 Rock.