“I don’t even need to encourage it; as a married couple, you’re already ‘joint.’ I wonder why people feel it’s a problem.

We don’t even have joint accounts, we just have accounts. I had an account before I got married so all I did was to take her to the bank to make her a signatory to my account after our marriage, and she did the same thing too”.

He told Punch in a recent interview, when asked for his view on couples operating Joint accounts.