WOW! some settlement! marry me! lol, I left my divorce 5 years ago, with nothing, not even child maintenance! just 2 kids, having not worked for many years I had to get a job and rent a house etc all off my own back! I aint rich, but what i have Is mine! and hard earned. Mr Dean is an angel.

karren, Widnes, Cheshire England

I read his website......

Erm, yes ? And ?

Not quite sure I understood the point of it all.

Jez, Tunbridge Wells, United Kingdom

Nice one, Gary. I'm sure she was worth every penny mate!

Tony, Bath, England

I agree with Dave from Lincoln...all that matters in this is their children. It has made good reading tho, makes a change from all the knife and war stories!! Well done Mr.Dean!!

tracey, blackpool,

Can i have your number?

Kathy, London

Kathy Miller, London,

Good For YOU Mr Dean.
You have made my day.
I have been writing my blog www.kneedeepinknightsbridge.com
for over a year now and my ex's lawyer wants it shut down.
It will be my only form of income if I manage to get it turned into a book as what The CSA give me each week is not enough.

KD, London , UK

Every divorce is different - people do gossip. To have a web site dedicated to an explanation shows just how frustrated Mr Dean is with idle gossip! I am divorced and set myself up as an interior designer, perhaps Mr Dean would like to re-decorate? If so D:ZINE Interiors can help, yes Mr D?

bronwen ackerman, Cardiff, UK

Nearly four million for never working a day in 18 years - because you have been privileged enough to have four children and stay at home and be provided with the most amazing lifestyle.... Women will never have equality while people like Helen feel hard done to>>>

Carolyn, Liverpool,

Has Helen Dean complained about her divorce settlement? No! This has all made national news to silence rumours in a 20 square mile area. How must she be feeling now? Humiliated.. Why do men in mid-life crisis leave their wives and children? Which women choose to be a single mother? money or no money

sharon, st michaels, uk

Don't see why the ex shouldn't provide for herself. Why should it be the role of the man to provide for her and not just the children. Women will never achieve true equality in the UK until we move away from the perception that they need men to provcide for them

John, London, England

All I would say is that I hope Mrs Dean is VERY grateful to what she has received as a settlement. My husband left me with a 10 week old baby, with a £1200 per month mortgage to pay whilst I received £52 per week maternity pay - I had to return to work and he never gave me a £ B4 or post divorce!

Debby , Dartford, UK

It would have been nice if Mrs Dean acknowledged the generosity of her settlement to stop the gossipers. After all they once loved one another. Is all that just forgotten.

Margaret Bold, Helsby, Cheshire

Crikey, wish my ex had been as generous as Gary Dean! I'm being forced to sell the family home as I cannot afford to live there with my two teenage children. Their father has no interest in seeing them or supporting them although he has always got money to go out drinking & bump up his AVC's!

Chantal, Barry, UK

As it happens it would make a change for the wife to get nothing - which is clearly not the case here. Usually the wife gets everything and those nasty whispering tongues weilded by the hideous self congartualting sanctimonious hypocrits who peer from behind net curtains say nothing.

John , Chichester, UK

The best to both of them, their children and their new partners.

Thers nothing else that should be said.

Dave, Lincoln,

Good luck to both Mr & Mrs Dean in their new lives. Not everyone is lucky enough to meet their soulmate but if you have good children from a marriage then that is something to be proud of.

You both appear to have agreed a fair and friendly settlement. Sorry gossips made publication necessary.

izzy, wirral, england

Well done and congratulations to Mr Dean. The male partner in many divorces gets painted as a guilty party. Ms McCartney as a perfect example. Any true man will provide for his ex and especially his children in a divorce settlement, however they often get painted as being out for themselves.

Matt, Shropshire,