Bill Gates ‘is made to wait in line for a haircut at a Sydney barber’

He’s just like us! Microsoft founder Bill Gates ‘waits in line for a haircut at a Sydney barber’ despite his jaw-dropping $136 BILLION fortune

He’s the world’s second richest man, with a jaw-dropping estimated fortune of $136 billion AUD. 

But it appears Bill Gates’ twelve figure bank balance doesn’t guarantee that he can skip the queue when he needs a haircut. 

According to a report in The Sydney Morning Herald on Saturday, the 63-year-old Microsoft founder was required to wait in line during a recent visit to a barber in the harbour city.  

He’s just like us! According to The Sydney Morning Herald, Microsoft founder Bill Gates recently ‘waited in line for a haircut at a Sydney barber’ despite his jaw-dropping $136 BILLION fortune

Bill reportedly ‘popped into a barber in the affluent Sydney suburb of Double Bay for a short back and sides’. 

The billionaire ‘was waiting patiently for his turn when he asked the hairdresser’ if he could pop out to grab a coffee. 

The Sydney Morning Herald claims the barber told him ‘he was free to grab a caffeine hit so long as he didn’t mind going to the back of the queue’ when he returned.

He's not a cut above! Billionaire Bill 'was waiting patiently for his turn when he asked the hairdresser' if he could pop out to grab a coffee (Stock photo)

He’s not a cut above! Billionaire Bill ‘was waiting patiently for his turn when he asked the hairdresser’ if he could pop out to grab a coffee (Stock photo)

The barbershop was not named in the report, but it allegedly caters to some of the Sydney’s political and financial elite – although none of the clientele would have a fortune anywhere near the size of the tech founder.  

Daily Mail Australia has reached out to The Gates Foundation for comment.  

Bill has visited the country several times in the past few years. 

Regular visitor! Bill is pictured with former  Prime Minister Julia Gillard during his 2013 trip to Australia

Regular visitor! Bill is pictured with former Prime Minister Julia Gillard during his 2013 trip to Australia

The business magnate holidayed in Sydney with wife Melinda in 2011, before meeting with the country’s then Prime Minister Julia Gillard during a visit in 2013. 

He was last in the country in 2017, where he visited a remote Queensland farm ‘to see how digital agriculture is used to raise cattle in the Australian outback’.

Although there was no photographic evidence of Bill’s barbershop visit, his down-to-earth behaviour is well documented. 

Just last month, the philanthropist was spotted waiting patiently in line for a Coke and fries at a budget burger outlet in Seattle called Dick’s Drive-In. 

He doesn't skip the queue! Bill is pictured in line at Dick's Drive-In burger joint in Seattle last month

He doesn’t skip the queue! Bill is pictured in line at Dick’s Drive-In burger joint in Seattle last month

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