EVER noticed how money seems to gravitate towards people who have no idea how to spend it wisely?

Last night's Marbella Belles is a perfect case in point.

The show follows the lives of five British Barbie doll-like women: Jo, Lisa, Barbs and two Louises, who have turned their backs on the dreary UK for the sunkissed stretches of the Costa del Sol.

Each has a story (usually of heartache) to tell. Each is bold, bronzed to within an inch of her life, and bleached to the roots.

And each is more horrific than the last, pushing aside motherly duties and dignity for designer clothes, fake nails and boob jobs.

Former Essex girl Lisa Johnson has taken early retirement despite her one-year-old son Blue and passes up the less glamourous aspects of mothering to her nanny Lin-Lin.

If you just turned over you'd be forgiven for thinking she was a spoof from Little Britain, but no, she's the real McCoy.

But, annoying as the belles' may be, you can't deny the alchemy effect of a mixture of vast wealth, tiny IQ and earth-shattering arrogance.

And last night's episode was, yet again, pure TV gold.

Louise Truelove (ironic name since true love seems to be the one thing escaping her) went under the knife and Barbs tried to shoehorn herself on the Marbella social radar.

It's a shame it's the last in the series next week.