SO ALEX BEST has finally woken up, smelt the coffee - and dumped her drunken bum of a husband. Hoorah.

They all do it in the end, and this week it was Mrs George Best's turn to acknowledge that her old man really is the sick mixture of booze and self-pity that the rest of us recognise.

Not that any of this appears to be the reason why she dumped him.

Alex left George because she believed he'd knocked off some young girlie on the make - even though he claims he didn't, and says a Sunday newspaper set him up.

"For the past two days he's been telling me how much he loves me and talking about our plans for the future," Alex sobbed.

"Then he tells someone that we are splitting up and getting divorced."

Now Best has said of Alex: "I'm bored with her. I loved her and she betrayed me because she did not trust me."

I know I should feel sorry for Alex. But I don't. To me it doesn't appear that she's quitting because she's disgusted by her husband's antics. Or because she's ashamed that he's systematically destroying his precious, priceless new liver.

Of his drinking, she's been reported as saying: "At least I can control it. But any other woman involved then no way, it's off."

Fine. So she can handle the Bestie drink-fest. But not him seeing another woman. Or her lifestyle possibly being threatened by another woman, more like. For years, naive old hacks - usually male - have wondered what the attractive, youthful Alex saw in her unkempt old has-been of a husband.

Her £700,000 home and the luxury German car she recently took possession of should help answer that. Marriage to George has apparently allowed her to indulge the same ridiculous lifestyle as him; a permanent holiday, fuelled by public adulation.

Now she's on another holiday and, at time of writing, he's continuing his alone.

Far from being put-upon and long-suffering, I'd say she can't lose. Whatever happens she'll either end up as a rich divorcee. Or a rich widow.

Because it can't be too long now, before it's Game Over for George unless he changes his ways.

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