“I love female company and have loads of girl ‘friends’ but currently I am single and available.”

He has also been sent Bibles from the US in reaction to his role as Malfoy. In a Deep South accent Tom describes how one accompanying letter said ‘Redeem Thyself Brother Tom, for the devil is within’. “Don’t these people know that I’m acting a role? It’s crazy.”

Tom is currently filming the fifth movie, Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix, due for release next year. He says filming is always fun but it’s weird to watch the finished product: “Obviously the scenes aren’t shot in sequence and filming lasts so long that when I see it my first thought is ‘where’s the rest of it?’ And sometimes I’m thinking ‘oh yes, the next bit is really good’ but then it doesn’t happen or is somewhere else in the action.”