It is only oiks and toffs who find themselves inheriting their parents' social circles: the middle classes meet their spouses in offices, pubs, online, and at the gym.
Even before the financial crisis changed everything in 2008, you should have heard the screams and guffaws of the people who, early on, had decided he was an insufferable oik.
Rick was the sort of unattractive and unlikeable oik with breathtaking delusions of grandeur that the actor portraying him had previously played to perfection on the stand-up circuit.