This is a tricky one, isn't it? On the one hand, she earned the dough legally. But does it pass the morality test? Gambling is ubiquitous; it encompasses everything from the granny trundling to Castle Bingo once a week right through to the bloke who's betting on every race inside a High Street bookies' shop day in, day out.

Would we see such comments found in this thread if she had stuffed one million quid into her purse last year? In other words, is it a question of scale? I suspect it is and sheer envy is at play. Having a punt, whether large or small, via endless mediums, is essentially about the something for nothing culture. Those who lose too much have character flaws.