MOST people would be devastated that their billionaire husband’s company is being forced to cough up £122million because of your lies.
But after having first-hand experience of Michelle Mone, I know she cares more about her image than she will about the cash.
She has shown time and again that the only person she truly cares about is herself and will trample over anybody to get her own way. I know, because she did it to me.
I interviewed Michelle in 2016 about a new rewards platform business she’d started.
We chatted about her tough start in life, her husband’s cheating, how she had stripped off and posed in Ultimo undies to promote her business and how she wanted to “inspire young women” through this new venture.
I liked her.
She seemed like a woman’s woman.
But any trace of sisterhood flew right out the window when she saw the article we planned with those very same pictures alongside it.
She freaked out, didn’t like the stockings she was wearing, didn’t like her legs, didn’t think she looked her best, and she didn’t think the House of Lords would like it.
She demanded the picture be changed.
She got her knickers in a right knot – and then went over my head to demand a different shot.
From a woman who had put that photo out for publicity to sell those undies, it was ridiculous.
It showed how ruthless and self-centred she was.
Now we know she is a liar, too.
If Michelle could stop thinking about herself, she may even do the right thing and resign from the House of Lords as fast as she can.
We’d have safer kids if we banned phones like Wills
WHEN my six-year-old son told me this week that the Year 6 kids in his school had mobile phones I could sense the look of longing and excitement on his face. And the trying-his-luck tone to his voice.
I laughed and said he wasn’t getting one until he went to “big school”.
Which led him to try to work out exactly how many weeks away that was.
But there is one secondary school age child in Britain who certainly doesn’t have a phone — our future king, Prince George — because Prince William revealed in an interview: “None of our children have any phones, which we’re very strict about.”
Which made me feel a little bit sad for young George.
He may be living in a modern world, but he is missing out on a modern childhood.
George is 12, and 91 per cent of 11-year-olds in our country now do have one.
It means he can’t WhatsApp his friends after a day at school, discuss how annoying the maths teacher is or look up the latest football scores.
Don’t get me wrong, I get why Kate and William have banned phones for their kids.
It is the sensible thing to do as a parent if you can get away with it.
They can be dangerous for kids, especially before the age of 13, while their brains are still maturing.
Social media apps can be hugely addictive; hours of mindless scrolling can hinder brain development, replacing real-life social interaction, physical play and creativity.
William explained that instead, all of his kids play sports and enjoy musical instruments.
There can be the agony of cyberbullying and vile Snapchat messages that vanish along with their awful content.
And kids can easily find pornography and horrific, scary and inappropriate content.
Nobody wants that for their child.
And for William and Kate’s child, there is the added security risk.
Plus, the things he could Google about his relatives would be much more troubling than most of us could find out about our own.
During his interview, William touched on his own childhood.
He said “safety, security, love” were all part of his upbringing.
You can see that is all he wants for his own kids.
That’s why they have implemented this ban on phones.
But sadly, we have heard so many members of the Royal Family saying they missed out on a normal childhood, too.
And as much as the majority of us absolutely hate them, mobile phones are now part of that normal childhood.
I hope George doesn’t realise that right now, though.
I hope he doesn’t feel as though he is missing out at all.
At his posh school, maybe the kids don’t collect their phones after the final bell or message each other from home.
Maybe William and Kate are leading by example and not behaving the way many of us do by scrolling through Instagram, checking WhatsApp or responding to emails in front of our kids.
Maybe George knows no different.
And maybe William knew exactly what he was doing by speaking out about the fact his eldest doesn’t have a phone yet.
It has made us think about our own parenting.
If more of us actually said no to our kids having phones, the risks would be eradicated.
So, too, would the peer pressure.
Then it would be kids like George who were the norm — not those youngsters who are spending hours on their phone.
And they would all have a bit more safety, security and love.
Trolls can go figure
GOING on skinny jabs is a good idea if you have a health problem or your confidence is at rock bottom.
But model Caprice injected herself to lose weight because she feared she would get trolled because she was – wait for it – a size 12.
Which is madness.
How sad to live life fearing what online bullies might say.
Caprice felt ill on the jabs, so quit and decided to overhaul her diet and exercise regime to get her BMI back down.
She looks fantastic and I hope the trolls leave her alone.
She clearly lives her life according to what they may say about her.
CAN you remember when Pizza Express was a treat – a simple but affordable one?
Now it isn’t.
I had the misfortune of returning there this week with my husband and young son for the first time in years.
We dutifully downloaded the app, as instructed, to get discounts.
So we ordered the three-course meal with 40 per cent off, the supposedly knock-down priced kids’ meal and a pizza plus three glasses of wine . . . and hello 100 quid.
The staff were ace, the food was mediocre.
Will I return?
Balls to that.
Far too much dough.
CASH is no longer king.
Just nine per cent of all payments in Britain are now made using it.
But I am embracing it.
After forking out £2,500 on my beloved boxer dog Layla’s latest vet bill, my credit card is maxed out.
I am skint.
So I went to that hole in the wall thing, got some real-life cash and decided to go cold turkey from Apple Pay until the insurance coughs up.
It is the best money-saving trick ever.
No more quick clothes buys or fancy sarnies.
All you have is the money in your purse and when it’s gone, it’s gone.
I’ve saved a fortune.
Chore blimey
THE world of dating is tricky these days, but young singletons aren’t helping themselves in the search for love.
There is a new trend called “choremancing”, where dates are combined with doing chores together, going to the supermarket and working out in the gym.
How thoroughly modern – and mundane.
Frankly, it is dull.
Call me old-fashioned, but I remember when you split the bill after dinner and not next to the till.
And in the good old days, the first time your partner saw you getting sweaty was in the bedroom – not the gym.
A lot more fun.
Rochelle has become a model mum
Rochelle Humes strutted down the catwalk during Paris Fashion Week just days after saying how her first pregnancy at 23 had made her feel as though she’d “messed up”.
Sadly, the singer said she was made to feel like she had tainted The Saturdays’ youthful image, which must be horrendous for any young woman.
But if ever she needed proof that she’d made the right choice, all she had to do was look down at her children’s beaming faces as they watched her in that L’Oreal show – because they are truly worth it.
