Just days after billionaire Kanye West and his wife Bianca Censori performed their, or should I say her, near-naked stunt on the red carpet at the Grammy Awards, the couple are reported to be divorcing.

Sources close to loathsome, anti-Semitic rapper Kanye, 47, say he’s in a Los Angeles hotel while his wife, 30, is in their $35million home in the city.

By all accounts, the couple expect to finalise the end of their two-year marriage legally in the coming days, with her pocketing a reported $5million settlement.

It has led to howls of disapproval from the sisterhood who elevated Bianca to be a poster girl for coercion and domestic abuse – a helpless victim over whom Kanye had total control.

I’m not so sure they are right, so let’s look at the facts.

No one had heard of Bianca Censori before she married Kanye. She was an unknown Aussie with a master’s degree in architecture who began working for his multi-billion pound fashion business when he was still married to Kim Kardashian. Who knows when romance blossomed, but he divorced Kim shortly after.

The real question is if Bianca was forced by Kanye into removing her clothes at every opportunity or if she was a co-conspirator full of naked ambition.

Kanye West and Bianca Censori in audacious outfits at Milan Fashion Week this time last year

Bianca Censori's near-naked stunt on the Grammys red carpet earlier this month

Bianca Censori’s near-naked stunt on the Grammys red carpet earlier this month

And naked she was on countless occasions – in Paris wearing a short fur jacket and sheer pantyhose with no underwear, on the video of Kanye’s Vultures I album, and many times more.

Of course, it all meant that, during her marriage, Bianca went from being a nobody to worldwide fame. I don’t feel sorry for her. I suspect she and Kanye are as bad as each other.

But one thing’s for certain – she’s made a mint out of that marriage.

Loophole lunacy

Keir Starmer pledges to close the loophole that allowed a Gazan family of six to use our Ukraine refugee programme to win the right to come to the UK and stay.

Frankly, the last thing we need in this country is a fast-track, back-door entry route for people who may be Palestinians who are supporting Hamas.

Haven’t the mass anti-Israel protests across Britain proved we have enough of them here already?

Bridget not Barbie 

The latest Bridget Jones movie starring Renee Zellweger, 55, has outstripped presales for 2023 hit Barbie featuring Margot Robbie, then 32, which grossed $1.4billion worldwide. 

Perhaps it indicates that women, and maybe even men, prefer an imperfect, older woman with a few wobbly bits and a sense of her own ridiculousness to one striving for perfection. Millions of us flocking to cinemas must clearly hope so.

The latest Bridget Jones movie starring Renee Zellweger, 55, has outstripped presales for 2023 hit Barbie featuring Margot Robbie

The latest Bridget Jones movie starring Renee Zellweger, 55, has outstripped presales for 2023 hit Barbie featuring Margot Robbie

Westminster Wars

Kemi Badenoch says she’ll never ‘get into bed’ with Nigel Farage and his Reform Party. Putting that thought aside, given that Reform are consistently ahead of the Tories in the polls, Kemi should be grateful to be asked.

The family of MP David Amess, who was stabbed to death by Ali Harbi Ali, after the Islamist extremist slipped through the Government’s anti-terrorism Prevent programme, say they were gagged from saying what they knew about its failings. Ali’s case was closed after one ‘interrogation’ – at a McDonald’s. If it wasn’t so tragic, it would be laughable.

 Valentine Victoria takes the plunge

For Valentine’s Day Victoria Beckham posted snaps of herself, fulsome breasts to the fore, in her own £490 VB label low cut cami top, boasting: ‘Mr Beckham is going to love this xx.’

Of course he will, as they’ve been through a lot of ups and downs in their 25-year marriage, and I’m not just talking about the bosom department, which she claims is now all natural. Gotta say, Vic, your cleavage looks swell for a mum of four who’s 50. But some of us still yearn for the cannon-ball days of old.

Now Then

For Valentine’s Day Victoria Beckham posted snaps of herself, fulsome breasts to the fore, in her own £490 VB label low cut cami top, boasting: ‘Mr Beckham is going to love this xx.’ Right: In the early days of marriage 

Meanwhile… 

Bankrupted Katie Price says she’s putting her partially blind 28-stone son Harvey, 22, on Ozempic to save his life. Good for her. But quite why we need to know this is anyone’s guess, unless she’s about to become an ambassador for the slimming drug – to pay for her 18th boob job.

Donald Trump won’t kick Harry out of the US for possible visa violations because he has formed a bromance with King Charles, say royal experts. He’d be doing Charles a favour. Harry and Megs back in the UK would be a horror show for the royals. And the rest of us.

 Kim Kardashian promises to add inches to derrieres in an ad for her Skims bottom- bulking pants. A lass wearing them asks, ‘Does my bum look big enough in this?’ ‘Yes,’ gushes Kim. Indeed it does, like she’s wearing Granny’s incontinence pads.

 My moggie Ted is appalled a councillor tried to blow up a cat, but says maybe he thought it was using his garden as a toilet. Any human who doesn’t provide a kitty-litter tray at home doesn’t deserve to own a feline, adds Ted. And if the tray’s a chore, take joy in the fact you can line it with The Guardian.

What does it say about the Anglican Church when Justin Welby is allowed to stay in Lambeth Palace for six months despite having to quit as Archbishop of Canterbury because he failed to act on allegations against serial child abuser John Smyth. My wonderful parish priest, with years of unblemished service, was forcibly retired aged 70 and made to move out of the parish home within weeks.

Well done to Plates, the first vegan restaurant to get a Michelin star in the country. The leeks, mung and urad bean lasagne sounds delicious on their £75 tasting menu and it is in hip Shoreditch, East London. But, a few veg, for that much? It’s enough to make you choke. 

Hero of the week is Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JP Morgan Chase. Responding to a petition by his bank’s employees protesting over his decision to order WFH staff back to the office five days a week, he told them: ‘Don’t waste your time.’ He added: ‘I don’t care how many people sign that ‘f***ing petition.’ Have the WFH gang never heard of a P45?

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