I’ve always been keen on Kim Kardashian, going right back to the earliest years of her family reality show. At one point in an over-excited piece for the Sun, I even compared her to Helen of Troy – a modern day icon of beauty whose bum launched a thousand quips.

Hamilton has a long history of acting like both a princeling and a drag queen in terms of entitlement and drama, while also liking to present himself as the underdog

Hamilton has a long history of acting like both a princeling and a drag queen in terms of entitlement and drama, while also liking to present himself as the underdog

But my word, she can pick them. Starting with Ray J, who appears to have been talking about little else since 2007 but the sex-tape they made as youngsters in 2003. Then there was most famously Kanye West. And now she’s taken up with the ghastly Lewis Hamilton – probably the most ludicrously virtue-signalling sportsman on the planet, with the exception of course of Gary Lineker. 

Until 2020, I had nothing against Hamilton. He’s handsome and rich, always good things in a chap, and has obviously achieved something in Formula One. Regrettably, his myth-making – which some might call self-pity – started early. He was born in Stevenage, which obviously one wouldn’t wish on anyone, but in 2018 he got into a bit of hot water when he said, ‘It really was a dream for us all as a family to do something different. For us to get out of the slums… well, not the slums, but to get out of somewhere and do something.’ Hamilton’s dad was an IT manager who took voluntarily redundancy to manage his son’s talent, while Hamilton himself completed his education at Cambridge Arts and Sciences, a private sixth-form college.

Understandably, Stevenage Borough Council leader Sharon Taylor said: ‘It is disappointing that Lewis Hamilton referred to Stevenage as “the slums” at such a high-profile event. He clearly realised what he had said and tried to correct it but sadly the people of our town, many of whom admire and support him, felt very offended.’

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He was shown up even more by the Team England para-badminton player Gobi Ranganathan who countered robustly: ‘I for one am proud to fly the flag for Stevenage. It’s made me who I am today. It’s not perfect, but it’s home. And it has a lot to offer if people just open their........

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