Just squash Ant under your foot, Lisa — and forget him!

AFTeR spending two years and £1.5 million in legal fees battling over their £50 million fortune, it seemed ant McPartlin and his ex-wife Lisa armstrong had finally come to an amicable settlement.

He said they’d settled — and would ‘generously’ give her a staggering £31 million, more than the half any wife is due by law, plus the £5 million family house.

This is the home they shared with their beloved chocolate labrador Hurley, who ant had fought for and for whom he won joint custody.

The home where Lisa and ant had tried desperately for years to conceive the child they longed for. Where she had stood by him through years of drug and alcohol dependency and rehab after he nearly wiped out a family while driving twice over the limit.

Yes, the same home into which Lisa had invited bubbly blonde Pa Anne-Marie corbett to help them organise their lives through those troubled times — only to see her run off with ant and set up home with him.

You can understand how bitter Lisa feels, how angry — after all, Anne-Marie was her friend, whom she invited into their home.

Yet I wish she hadn’t responded to ant’s claim that they had settled with a social media retort saying it was ‘a load of nonsense’. Tweeting her 143,000 followers, she then ‘liked’ a message saying: ‘No amount of money could ever compensate for what this poor girl has had to endure.’

Her side says she’s going to get less than the reported £31 million — that it’s more like £20 million. But as the dust settles on this sad divorce I have some advice for Lisa. Get over it.

ant has treated you appallingly. But every tweet you post keeps you nailed to the cross of this broken marriage.

You have to break away. You are not the first woman to be betrayed. Yet you are one of the few to walk away with a Lotto-winning settlement — even if it is ‘just’ £20 million.

I’ve never met Lisa, but those in showbiz circles say she is a woman of humour, grace and, most importantly, resilience. She’s also a successful make-up artist who can stand on her own two feet.

Time to show it girl. Twitter is not your revenge, your future life is.

Do you really want the rest of your days to be defined by a self-pitying, recovering addict and a celebrity rat? Of course not. Just remember ants are small and annoying creatures and can easily be squashed under foot.