Pete Waterman pretty much admits publicly to being a complete t**t.

Pete Waterman, whose personal fortune is estimated at around £47,000,000, has accused Google of treating him like an exploited foreign worker in Dubai, over Youtube's use of the Rick Astley hit 'Never Gonna Give You Up'.

Reports have suggested that some workers in Dubai are living in shanty towns and are paid as little as 30p an hour for over-time. Peter Waterman who is forced to live in a mansion and own several Ferrari's as a result of his poverty, is unabashed about who he is being exploited by.

"I feel like one of those workers, because I earned less for a year's work off Google or YouTube than they did off the Bahrain government" said Waterman. The foreign workers he is alluding to are reported to be working 12 hour days, six days a week for around £120 a month. Pete Waterman, who wrote the lyrics for and produced 'Never Gonna Give You Up' over twenty years ago, had to put in a solid 365 days of absolutely no work whatsoever for Youtube to ensure that the video received 154 million plays. Pete Waterman who's 2002 auto-biography was entitled 'I wish I was me', was paid a mere £11 in return for the no work whatsoever he put in to running the Youtube site and all the work perpetuating the rickrolling meme that he did not do.

The families of foreign workers from countries like Pakistan for example, are known to sell off their entire family's assets to fund the trip of around £2000 to Dubai, in the hope of a better life. Similarly, Pete Waterman once bought 18 Ferrari's in one day.

Sources (who do not receive royalties from this post and are not expected to culturally):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/5130427/Pete-Waterman-I-was-exploited-by-Google.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7985361.stm