MONEY FOR OLD DOPE

While you and I work our fingers to the bone just to keep out of the poorhouse, the news emerges sheepishly that Kate Moss 'earned' a staggering £5m last year, despite looking older and tattier then ever and spending a large proportion of the year with  12 stone of ravaged and pus-riddled skin hanging off her arm - or Pete Doherty as he is better known.

Despite the public affair with the fattest heroin addict in the world, the increasingly loopy behaviour and the fact that her looks are fading faster than the Turin Shroud displayed in a bright shop window, the money keeps a-rolling in.

A large part (around £3m) came from her Topshop designs, which is fair enough as it must be pretty hard even finding Topshop with the amount partying she does. And it gets better as in 2008 she is signed up to at least two massive campaigns with YSL and Donna Karen.

Wonderful news all round and compelling proof that grime pays (sorry).