Or #Itsnotallaboutthatassaboutthatass
Booty, butt, arse, behind, derriere, backside, bottom, buns, business class, caboose, donk, duff, fanny, tooshy, trunk, tush and whoopie cakes – no matter what you call it, both of the families in this week’s episode of Fiskal Policy got a bit of fame with an ass.
First there was Pippa Middleton in her bridesmaid dress at her sister Kate’s wedding.
And then there was Kim Kardashian with the picture that broke the internet more than when you get a new router and the plug and play doesn’t work.
Both families are in the news again this week but for very different reasons.
Just three months since the Kardashian-Wests (like John West but without the fish) appeared in Fiskal Policy, when Kim celebrated her 40th birthday in a much more extravagant way than I did, the news from the K-tribe this week is that she has filed for divorce from Kanye West.
The reasons haven’t been revealed as yet but part of Kanye must be wondering whether it is partly to do with the hologram present he got his wife for her birthday.
There’s doing too little for a wife’s birthday – like getting her a pair of gardening gloves – but there is also doing too much. And by too much I mean making a creepy hologram of your wife’s dead dad where you script it to say how amazing you are.
Everyone else has known Kanye West to be a egotistical popstar for years (yes Kanye – if by chance you read this, I’ve classified you as a popstar, not a rapper) but maybe the hologram was a wakeup call for Kim.
I obviously wonder how it will affect their behemoth bank balances (I bet they can afford to heat all the rooms in at least a little bit of one of their homes) but also how will it affect Kanye West’s plan to run for President of the USA in 2024?
Yes, after not getting many votes last year he still apparently thinks the best direction for him (pun intended) is the path towards the White House.
Donald Trump and Ronald Reagan are the only two divorcees to have become president, and both had remarried before taking office.
There is time for Kanye to find another wife, after Kim kicks him to the kerb, before the race to the White House starts in earnest – but there isn’t much time.
From the Kardashian-Wests to the Mountbatten-Windsors . . .
Unlike the world of Kim Kardashian where everything she does is documented on some kind of social media platform or TV show, what is exactly wrong with the Queen’s husband is being kept under wraps.
We do know it isn’t Covid-related and we do know both he and the Queen had their first jabs for that last month.
But what we also know is that he had a visit from one of his sons, Prince Charles, on Saturday afternoon.
While many questioned why this was allowed at a time when visiting people in hospitals in the UK has been made more difficult in a lot of places due to the pandemic, I say let’s all be thankful it wasn’t his other son.
And let’s be hopeful that he gets out of hospital soon, and Kim and Kanye do what is best for them and – most importantly – let’s do what is best for ourselves.
If you’re reading this in a country where the pandemic is mostly over then please can you pass on some tips to the UK’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Supposedly he is going to be unveiling a roadmap about how we will get out of lockdown but I’m not convinced. Over the past 11 months he has made as much of a success of dealing with this crisis as David Cameron and Theresa May did with Brexit.
Stay safe for another week!
