Fizz probably believes him.
She's not as stupid as Pam Dawson, but she's pretty damn dumb.
And I like her choice of words:
he nabbed a plate from a coffee shop
That's the same word the drunken Will Pitt used the last time he was caught in an obvious plagiarism.
He said all journalists "nab" their material from better writers.
For some reason, thieves don't want to use the word "stole".