NEWS: Move Along Mills

CELEB: Move Along Mills

Heather Mills McCartney. What can you say? When the news about a girl with only one leg becomes so utterly saturated with bile that the rags actually stop referring to her as the "one legged former model", you know she's in for the chop (so to speak). Personally, I'm thoroughly enjoying the drama. There's nothing quite like seeing a compulsive liar, as Heather clearly is, flailing about all hands and foot, in the web of her own deceit.



Which is not to say that one shouldn't feel a little bit of sympathy for Heather. I read her autobiography years before she married Sir Paul, and although she may have exaggerated her hard done by status, she still lost a leg, and devoted her life to providing prosthetic limbs for Romanian orphans. That's a damn site more than most of her most vehement critics have ever done, don't you think?



Heather's mistake, as far as I can tell, is not that she's a total fantasist, with her claims of abuse conveniently "leaked" to the press via a "mysterious woman and a fax machine in a London newsagent". And it's not that she's a shameless self publicist, clinging on for dear life to the McCartney moniker as though the loss of it might destroy her already schizophrenic sense of identity. No, Heather's main problem is that she's simply wandered into the Garden of Hate, and she won't accept that there's no way out.



It happened to Victoria Beckham a while back, probably about the time her husband became prettier than her. The British public is a vicious snapping crocodile jaw of a machine, and once you're blacklisted…frankly, it would take a miracle, or an incurable disease to bring you back from the brink of such loathing. Poor Victoria didn't really even do anything wrong, apart from marry Beckham, arguable the best looking man in Britain, and because she's a little bit moody looking, by God we punished her for it. Self publicist extraordinaire Victoria took several stabs at a solo career after the Spice Girls, but we wouldn't let her have it. In fact, one of her songs wasn't completely terrible. I remember thinking if a cute little American RnB singer had done that song, it might have been a hit. But not for Victoria. WE decided when her career was over, and it's only in the last few months, after years of constant public ridicule, that she's had the good sense to bow out gracefully and accept the rules of the game.



Heather simply can't win this one. If she thought that by leaking torrid, probably fake details of her divorce proceedings to the tabloids, (and then attempting to sue the Evening Standard and the Daily Mail for daring to print their rebuttal to her attack on their best boy), she had any chance of winning something resembling sympathy, she's taken on far more than she realises. It doesn't matter what she says or does, what's true and what isn't or how many more body parts she loses. Sir Paul could be smacking her around from here to next week, and we'd still be cheering him on because WE DON'T LIKE HER. Vilified? Crucified, more like.



You've got to admire her tenacity, but if the woman had any real friends at all, or even a halfway decent publicist, they'd tell her to get back on her bike, and pedal all the way to Romania. Where at least her efforts would be appreciated.

Naaah Son.

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Heather isn't even the best looking one legged model in the world. The best is right here on SuicideGirls. ; )

Gratuitously unnecessary comment there... though I'd like to think your heart was in the right place.

Have to agree with the comment about victorias songs, some of her songs were ok, just pleasant pop music. But boy did she get some stick about it.
This Heathre mills things is soo bad to watch. She isn't that bad, so what if she lied to the papers well duh who would tell them anything anyway, what ever she would say would be twisted around, since they want her throat.
I Dispise tabloids, that is why i have not bougth a news paper, in 15 years (besides the local one, which i only buy when we are looking to move), and also why i stopped buying celeb magazines.
The papers will print what they want, and only let us know, what they think we shold know.

Oh i also think they are doing the same thing to Goerge Micheal at the moment. I seriously wonder who these people pissed off, for them to get such horrible press.

I didn't realise quite how planned these campaigns by tabloids were until I read Piers Morgan's autobiography. He gleefuly details his part (perhaps exagerated) in the downfalls and hardships of various public figures and then whines about it happening to him.

Heather Mills goes down (in more ways than one). Sir Paul is the establishment, he avoid controversy as much as possible and the perception will be of Heather as a money hungry gold digger.

Odd fact: she lost her leg to a police motorcycle outrider for Princess Di.

Love to know what Stella is thinking.

She's entitled to "Mrs McCartney" until she remarries. It's not (necessarily) self-publicising.

And I don't think it's the public; I think it's the red-tops. They need something to be scandalised about, and Macca's definitely Mr Salt Of The Earth. So Mrs M gets it.