The Manuel and Codruta Show stays on the road

Mrs Manuel Mallia – for now we know that they married in 2012 after he divorced his first wife under the new legislation, and then used his ministerial discretion as minister responsible for citizenship to make his own wife of just two years a Maltese citizen – has changed her Facebook profile picture.

Her husband, who is more than 30 years her senior and has caught the Maltese disease of using public posts and messages on Facebook to communicate with the very people he can and does communicate privately – indicating that the message is not to the specified recipient but a show for everyone else reading it – responds by writing in Romanian ‘my beautiful wife’.

Unable to respond in kind, she replies ‘My dear husband’.

Marelli, how sad – he seems to think it’s his amazing personality that has won him a beautiful (well, beautiful for him, but really just nondescript pretty-ish) wife almost young enough to be his grand-daughter. You sort of wish he would quit making himself ridiculous.

And please, please, please will Maltese adults stop posting messages on Facebook congratulating their own children, wishing their spouses a happy birthday or happy anniversary, and asking their siblings what they’re doing for lunch.

If you live together, it’s a farce that makes you look totally dysfunctional. And if you don’t live together, use the phone. But all you’re doing is showing off, right.