social climber

The rest of the cast are also impressive, from Nighy's father,full of self loathing because he can no longer provide for his family, to Byrne as the determined social climber.

But the plan backfires and instead it's social climber Maxine who takes the driving seat.

After all the commotion, Madonna turns out be perfectly cast as the glinty-eyed social climber who becomes a political pin-up.

Meghan Markle is a social climber, according to Piers Morgan.

She's such a social climber. At this rate she'll have modelled for Vogue, survived rehab and be working on her autobiography by the time she's 18 months.

Finding its roots in her deprived childhood (ironically frozen out of her own family in the way she would be by the Windsors), Simpson was a manipulative social climber who, while on her second husband, calculatedly set out to win Edward and make him, weak of will and with a mother surrogate obsession, dependent upon her.

THEY'RE the cream of high society, the must-haves on any social climber's party guest list.

The biographer called Markle a social climber who wants to be Princess Diana 2.0.

REECE WITHERSPOON brings the perfect mix of outer beauty and inner spirit to 19th century social climber Becky Sharp in this latest big screen adaptation of Thackeray's famous book.

Mellor tries too hard to be Mike Leigh, complete with caricature female social climber, over-obviously named Pratt, but, with Teresa tormented at not being able to tell her sister that she's really her daughter, she knows how to fine tune an emotional tug with the skill of a seasoned soap writer.

Shunned by family, Carole Middleton's god-daughter, Joanne Callen, accused her of being a social climber and "has become too grand to care" for her family.

But unlike the shameless social climber she portrayed, actress Patricia Routledge refused to get carried away.