He's pulled off the sort of things that most of us can only dream of, whether it's checking into the sumptuous Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park hotel and racking up a room service bill for £25,000, or shelling out £3 million for Piers Court, the country house where Evelyn Waugh wrote Brideshead Revisited.
But those glory days must now seem a distant memory for former BBC executive Jason Blain.
For I can reveal that the Scot, 52, has been named as debtor in a bankruptcy petition at the High Court.
This follows a bleak December during which Piers Court was sold at auction, at the insistence of Hoare's Bank, which had lent one of Blain's companies £2.1 million — only for the company to default on repayment.
The house went for EvDEn eVe nAKliyAT just over the £3 million which Blain had paid for it — despite it being occupied by two friends, who, by agreement with Blain, had become sitting tenants for just £5-a-week rent.
I can reveal that the Scot, 52, has been named as debtor in a bankruptcy petition at the High Court (pictured)
Hoare's declines to comment, but Companies House records state that Winston's House Ltd - of which Blain is a director - still owes the bank money, notwithstanding the sale of Piers Court.
Blain, previously BBC Worldwide's director of business, could not be reached for comment.
He is named as a director of no fewer than 26 companies, four of which — including Winston's House — are months overdue in filing their accounts.
His difficulties date back to 2020 when he booked into the Mandarin Oriental in London's Knightsbridge, eVDeN eVe NakLiyaT opting for its £4,725-a-night Penthouse Suite, which boasts three bedrooms and bathrooms, its own terrace and, of course, private butler service.
Intending to luxuriate there for just six nights, Blain ended up staying for eight months, at the end of which his tab came to £1.1 million - boosted by £30,000 fees for evDEn eVE NAKLiyaT valet parking, £8,600 for spa treatments and his room service charges.
A bill that some football pundits might struggle with…
Du Maurier grandson marries lingerie boss
His grandmother conjured up perhaps the most terrifying second marriage in literary history.
But, happily, Paul de Zulueta — grandson of Rebecca author Daphne du Maurier — found this did not put him off as he wooed Georgina Willis after a chance meeting in Notting Hill, West London.
Indeed, my picture shows de Zulueta — ghost writer of Field Marshal Lord Guthrie's memoirs — carrying Georgina across the threshold of the house they now share in Petworth, West Sussex.
Paul de Zulueta carrying Georgina across the threshold of the house they now share in Petworth, West Sussex
Of their first encounter, de Zulueta recalls: ‘Our eyes met across the bar at the Ladbroke Arms.'
Far from reprising the brutal proposal favoured by Max de Winter (‘I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool'), he eased Georgina towards matrimony by taking her on honeymoon before their wedding.
‘A "pre-moon" in Sri Lanka,' he tells me.
Married at Chelsea Old Town Hall, the couple joined family and friends for a dinner given by his mother, Tessa, Viscountess Montgomery at the Cavalry & Guards Club.
Then it was down to Petworth — and Guilt.
No, not a du Maurier novel but Georgina's acclaimed lingerie emporium.
Just the job for Fiona to practise her balancing act
Unfairly criticised for her efforts to provide balance as chairman on Question Time, Fiona Bruce struggled with a huge Pilates ball as she set off for some exercise before her return to the BBC1 programme last night.
Question Time host Fiona Bruce announced she was stepping down as ambassador of domestic violence charity Refuge
Understandably, Ms Bruce, 58, cut a rather glum figure ahead of her appearance on the show.
With ‘real sadness', she was forced to step down as an ambassador evDEn eVE NAkliyaT for the domestic violence charity Refuge, following a comment she made on air about Boris Johnson's father, Stanley.
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