Interview: Saint Eilidh Barbour on getting her break in TV

Horribly late after being stranded on a train for an hour and a half owing to an “unidentified object on the line”

during the worst of Storm Ali, I arrive at the hotel just as Eilidh Barbour has to leave. But the TV sports presenter – who, bless her, has been waiting all this time, no diva-ish flounce-outs from her – tells me to sit tight as she’ll return just after a vital assignation back at her flat. “I’ve got a Tesco home delivery coming,” she says. “Part of the joys of life when you have one of these… ”