Gates may pay a big price for the Melinda break-up

BILL Gates once said of wife Melinda: “She had other boyfriends but I had Microsoft,” which is a pretty insulting thing to say about the woman you’re supposed to love.

Because not only does it imply she chose him because of his money, it makes Gates sound like an arrogant, insensitive booby.

Now, 27 years on, the couple are splitting and Gates’ family is said to be furious with him for “things he has done”.

Gates had a free pass with ex-girlfriend, Ann Winblad, who he was allowed to spend a weekend with every year. But when you’re as rich as Gates you can pretty much have and do what you want.

Men as obsessive, as focused, as relentlessly ambitious as him are great at making money but pretty disastrous at relationships because they’re so self-obsessed and controlling.

So, I’m hoping Melinda has a very good lawyer who gets her the world’s biggest settlement so that whatever these “things” he’s done are won’t matter anymore.

LONDON’S Berkeley Hotel has turned Vogue editor Anna Wintour’s face into a vanilla biscuit complete with sunglasses and a sharp bob as part of their new afternoon tea, Prêt-à-Portea.

Why? Stick-thin

Wintour looks like nothing sugary has ever passed her hard, zip-thin lips and I’m pretty sure I’ve never seen her smile. Why spoil a biscuit by putting her miserable mush on it?

I DON’T know about you but I thought the Line Of Duty finale was a big damp squib. Nine years of waiting and H turns out to be the-thick-asmince DC Ian Buckells, who finally got his comeuppance because he couldn’t spell. He kept spelling the word definitely – “definately.”

Mind you it’s one in the eye for those woke idiots at Hull University who said spelling didn’t matter. It mattered a whole heap to Bozo Buckells who’s likely to spend the rest of his life in jail being battered by “cop haters”. Or is he?