The dastardly Mr. Deedes

Virgin Money’s statuesque boss JayneAnne Gadhia reveals on Desert Island Discs that when she first met her Indian husband Ashok his family were arranging for him to marry a fellow Indian. The initial welcome she received to the Ghadia family home in Southall was glacial. Turning to one relative, Jayne-Anne, 55, shrugged: ‘Well at least your grandfather seems happy.’ The relative deadpanned: ‘Grandad’s blind. He doesn’t know you’re white.’

With bonuses scrapped this year by cautious Yorkshireman John Cryan, how Deutsche Bank staff must miss the hell-for-leather days of flashy predecessor, Anshu Jain, 54. Bloomberg reports that during bonus season under Jain, a horse trailer would arrive at the office chockfull of Aston Martins for star performers.

Labour’s Rachel Reeves looks a competent choice as the new chair of the Business Select Committee. Having worked at the Bank of England and HBOS, the headgirlish mother- of-three, 38, should at least have a good grasp of the City. Plus the wily Sir Humphreys will have a hard time pulling the wool over her eyes – hubby Nick Joicey was a senior mandarin at the Treasury.

The sale of fancy trotters firm Jimmy Choo to chav favourite Michael Kors for £896m must be a choker for its eponymous co-founder. Hackney-based cobbler Jimmy Choo, 68, who set up the company in 1996 with glossy fashionista Tamara Mellon, sold his 50pc stake in 2001 for a relatively paltry £10m. Mellon, 50, pocketed £85m for hers in 2011. She later claimed Malaysian-born Jimmy never designed a single shoe.

Jargon watch. Wealth management firm SEI has identified a new breed of investors they’ve dubbed HENRYs – ‘High Earning, Not Rich Yet.’ Not sure that’s going to catch on. Meanwhile, down-wiv-da-kids ITV chairman Sir Peter Bazalgette, 64, yesterday described online streaming service Netflix firm as a ‘Frenemy’, which the dictionary defines as ‘someone with whom one is friendly despite a fundamental rivalry’. With Netflix on the march, will Baz be so polite in two years’ time?