Would you agree to sit at THAT table?

I would have had nothing to do wth either Saatchi or Onassis, Hollydaze but it is a fact that to some women power is an aphrodisiac. It has always been so. Perhaps it has something to do with the animal instinct to have the strongest male available to father one's offspring, to give them the best genes for survival.

Times change, and that is no longer the only way to secure the future of our family, but it still lingers. You don't have to think the same way to see that some others have different priorities.

Ana - that's much more polite than my husband would have described me!

I understand the low self-esteem angle but they must know that being ill-treated is unacceptable. It is something I really do struggle to understand fully why anyone would put up with it (if that makes sense).

p.s. Yes I would definitely agree to sit at that table. I'd love to have a conversation with Saatchi.

Nigella looks so like Anna from Coronation Street in that pic.

I think the relationship between Saatchi and Trinny was a rebound one but I don't wish them any ill.

HollyDaze, you obviously have a healthy level of self-esteem - some women do not, for various reasons, and will put up with all manner of humiliation because they don't believe they deserve better.

Elegran - it wouldn't matter a jot to me who he was, how much money he had or how much power; if he put his hand around my throat he'd only ever do it once. I don't understand how women can sell themselves so short - is perceived prestige really that important to them

Hollydaze Jacqueline Kennedy had her own wealth, but that did not stop her being attracted to the life that Aristotle Onassis could provide. Some men are in a different league, and Charlers Saatchi is one of them.

He is part of a top advertising/PR firm and has vast money and influence. Trinny and Nigella are/were both vulnerable, for one reason or another, and a man who would take care of everything is just what they seem to need.

The fact that he also wants power over them as well only dawns on them later. Then they realise that there is not enough money in the world to compensate.

Whoops, reading that back makes me feel a bit uncomfortable. I wasn't having a go at Trinny, women with substance misuse/mental health issues. I was having a go at this man, who seems to be a narcissistic bully.

He seems to like beautiful women, who despite successful professional/work lives, defer to his power. Some women find power very attractive. Trinny is a 'recovering alcoholic' and has (so I've read) had some kind of eating disorder when younger. She sounds just his type

merlotgran - surely there comes a time when there just isn't enough money to make it worthwhile

Elegran - wouldn't Nigella and Trinny have their own wealth? I've no idea who he is anyway to be honest!

HollyDaze Your post is a bit like Mrs. Merton asking Debbie McGee what she saw in the millionaire, Paul Daniels.

It is £££££, Hollydaze They make him very attractive, as does his air of being in charge - some women love that.

It makes me wonder what they see in him - hardly good looking is he so, does he have hidden talents? He must choose his women carefully if he gets away with it so often that he feels comfortable carrying on like that it public.