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Dark satanic Heather Mills...?
Why have so many people got a problem with Heather Mills? She's overcome terrible adversity - hit by a police motorcycle back in 1993 - her injuries included crushed ribs, a punctured lung and severe injury to her left leg which meant it had to amputated. She's campaigned AGAINST landmines and FOR animal rights. And now without powerful and expensive barristers she's managed to secure her and her daughter nearly 25 million pounds in her divorce settlement from Paul McCartnery. Why do so many people dislike her? If she was a bloke and had achieved all that he'd be on a pedestal, lionised as a role model wouldn't he?
PS I have thrown a glass of liquid all over someone. It wasn't water it was wine. And it was one of the most satisfying feelings I've ever experienced - but I was rather cowardly. It was at university, she was called Rachel and she was all over my then boyfriend. I put up with it for about fifteen minutes then pretended to trip and spilt my glass of white wine all over her dress. I claimed it was an accident but she and I both knew.... Twenty years later I wonder why I didn't just chuck the wine over him.
Heather Mills should have kept more quiet all along.
It may have been due to his daughter who seemed against Heather getting his inheritance.
But she should have kept more quiet over the last year.
Heather Mill has turned into an attention seeker, one minute she hates the press, next minute their her best friends and shes using them to her advantage. Shes making a fool out of herself, Paul Macartneys had a lucky escape...
(Matt, Plymouth)
I have no problem with anyone standing up for themselves male or female,in a divorce court or not.What I and many people object to about Heather Mills is that when the matrriage went wrong she went staright on the offensive and made the divorce into a money matter.She says she put her career on hold for him in their (2 year ) Marriage.But in your comments abobe you point out all the work she has done with animal rights and landmines!This was always about getting money out of a wealthy man to whom she had a fleeting marriage at a time when he had already earned most of his money.Why does she deserve to be looked after by him in opulence for the rest of her (lengthy?) life?She also summed it all up after the case by ranting like a fish wife and talking about her child as if she wasa possession.Thats why we don't like her and never will.
The jury has decided: Paul's lawyer Fiona Shackleton looks hot with wet hair and Heather Mill's end-of-trial water treatment may have been a kindness after all.
For proof, check the comments to this story on all the online papers today. Finally, a silver lining to this dull and unpleasant tale.
The issue isn't Heather Mills but the divorce laws in this country. It isn't any wonder that woman are trying to land themselves a rich man, they only need to stay with them a few years, not contribute to their wealth and lock them in with a child and they can take all the hard earned wealth their husbands have worked for. How can any self respecting person feel they are entitled to money just because their ex can afford it. Paul will look after their daughter so there will be no hardship there, any one could live comfortably on much less than 24m, she knew what she was doing when she married him. He was vulnerable, she looked liked Linda, she took advantage. Shame on the divorce courts for not seeing what is a genuine claim and a gold digger!
I have nothing against Ms Mills per se......but whenever she opens her mouth she seems to irritate me...
Comments like "everyone has known for 15 years he is worth 拢800million" and "my daughter will have to travel B class" just make me instantly dislike her.
I'm pretty sure that as she is also Sir Paul's daughter she won't go without.
She had the perfect opportunity to show a little grace and dignity after the court case, but she couldn't even manage that...
She clearly needs some serious PR training...either that or make some more money by writing a book - "How to lose friends and alienate people..."
The British Press and Public have double standards:
Diana Princess of Wales - Born into a rich and arictocratic family. Married a Prince. Marraige failes. Doe-eyed - Used and manipulated the media. Relied on mystics and soothsayers to get throuth the day. Had a string of public affairs. Did some charity work. Spent her last few days with an unemployed playboy on a yacht and rampaging around Paris, all in the public eye. Didnt use a seatbelt and died in a car travelling at excess speed on the way to her boyfriend's flat. Leaves two boys without a Mother. Identified by the press and public as vulnerable and revered as a saint.
Heather Mills - born into an ordinary family. Married a Beatle. Marraige failed. Tries to use the press but is no good at it. Doe-eyed, but speaks her mind and cant manipulate. Does charity work. Gets 3 per cent of her ex-husband's fortune. Loving Mother who cares for their child. Openly vilified by the press and public alike.
I have nothing against Ms Mills per se......but whenever she opens her mouth she seems to irritate me...
Comments like "everyone has known for 15 years he is worth 拢800million" and "my daughter will have to travel B class" just make me instantly dislike her.
I'm pretty sure that as she is also Sir Paul's daughter she won't go without.
She had the perfect opportunity to show a little grace and dignity after the court case, but she couldn't even manage that...
She clearly needs some serious PR training...either that or make some more money by writing a book - "How to lose friends and alienate people..."
She has received 拢24 million for a few years marriage and has still managed to make herself look ungracious.
The woman seems to believe that a) the general public holds her in high esteem and b) that she is fighting some kind of cause for womens rights. She is a total embarrassment and he is well rid of her.
What has the fact she has only one leg got to do with anything. Surely you are not suggesting someone with a disability is automatically a better person and should be able to behave how they like as they are "Disabled" I think she wants it both ways. She wants no more details given out, but what does she do but stand and rant for over 10 mins. Clearly breaking the Judges order. If she is not a gold digger why does she need so much. If she is fit enough to take part in a dancing competion, is she not fit enough to get a job. The money for the child is another matter, as that is clearly also his responsibility.
It is not the suffering etc that she has gone through, it is the suffering we the general public have to endure with her going on and on and on and......., and as for chucking a glass of water over a solicitor, I hope the offended woman sues her for 拢25,000,000 for a new hair do.
Paul Mc may be rich but hes has a poor voice
Since he split with Lennon he has not improved
and I don't like the way he plays back door politics with the animal rights issues
he chased her and she was to clever
ha ha
Role Model? Hmm ..... I guess you can call her a role model in the same sense as all those horribly overpaid 'celebrities' who feel it's their godgiven right to rake it in while ignoring all other rules, including moral and ethical, that would apply to "normal" people, AND whinge about how they're not getting a break and how 'unfair' they're being treated, so yes, maybe she is a role model!
Hello she's a goldigger, there's is no way she earned 24 million pounds of that money, and yet she still thinks she should get more.
I have an issue with her because she makes it all about her.
She came out of court and said it was for " her" and then she added her daughter and then the charities.
This should have been about what the daughter needs - and not what Heather wants or needs. She, like alot of mothers, can make their own way in the world. She certainly does not need that sort of settlement.
I would dearly like to know how much time she actually spends with her daughter. One on one.
With no one else around.
She is hanged by her own words. Heather puts Heather first and certainly not her daughter.
What you have done in the past doesnt make who you are in the present.
Heather Mills milked McCartney, she said "I have secured the future for myself and my child". This is exactly what was in her mind throughout... securing her own future.
And just look at the way she has been acting.
Yes she has done great things like campaign against landmines, but that doesnt give you free rain to let you do whatever you want and get away with it for the rest of your life.
If it does, please let me know. I will go an clear up some landmines.
Heather do you not realise that the majority of people in this world do not earn 拢1m in there lifetime. 拢24m thats 24 families for life
Yes I would agree GOLDIGGER
How many songs did she write? How many songs did he write while she supported his home and family life?
"Beatrice only gets 拢35,000 a year - so obviously she's meant to travel B class while her father travels A class, but obviously I will pay for that."
Seriously, Mills isn't living in the real world, I mean come on 拢35,000 a year is more than the majority of people earn in a year. I fail to see how she can descrive it as 'only'. Complaining about things like this is another one of the many ways she alienates herself from the public.
The argument that a man would be 'lionised' for doing what Heather Mills has done is totally spurious.
The reason people dislike her is that like so many 'celebrities' she courts the media and then complains that they don't leave her alone. Why has her whole tawdry divorce been all over the papers and TV? Because she has made a point of publicising everything to try and get public sympathy. However the British public are clearly not as easily led as she might have imagined and have far more respect for her former husband's dignified silence.
People dislike Ms Mills because she is a 'chancer'. Her saught after 拢125m was rediculous. Their duaghter is to recieve 拢34,000 each year and Mills isn't happy? This is the basic amount she will recieve. It is not as if McCartney is not going to give her more money and presesnts, etc throughout her life. Besides, I would have thought 34,000 plus school fees was perfectly adequate to raise a child each year. People do it on far less. They were only married for four years and in that light I think she was lucky to get what she did.
Yes, she has been a bastion for big causes, but rightly so. Every celebrity has a duty to use their elevated status for a cause higher than themselves. It is funny how you highlight the good work she is doing. I mean, its hardly likely that any one would be FOR landmines is it? I'm certainly not AGAINST animal rights and I'm sure that a lot of other people aren't either!
Also, people don't like her because she is a very dislikeable character. She just is. She comes across as dishonest and manipulative. There are people that you see in the media spotlight who are simply dislikeable. She is one of them.
I think people dislike her because of money, and that appears to be her main goal in life, people dont mind people working for money, but to walk away from a marriage a multi millionaire and have contributed little to the earning of that money is where most people draw the line.
I think the fact that she hasnt kept quiet and has used every opportunity to drag Paul through the press hasnt helped her cause, i doubt any divorce is 100% amicable, but every time i have seen her speak and that is in person (not printed word) she just comes across as a bitter vitriolic person, intent on causing as much damage as possible with her words.
There are many reasons for people to dislike Heather Mills. Heres just a few:
1) People dislike the way she turned this divorce into a media circus.
2) She claims to want to protect her daughter, yet she hasn't held back when it comes to accusing Paul of being violent and making all sorts of accusations. How is Beatrice going to feel when she grows up and sees all this public hatred expressed by her mother.
3) Another is the attitude that 拢35000 (+other fees) isn't enough to take of her daughter. There are children with two parents that don't even earn that much together and get on with life without complaining about being in "economy class". Plus its not as if Paul is going to completely forget about his own daughters needs.
PS I find it greatly distasteful and outdated that you seem to think that if a man was to "achieve" what Heather Mills has, he would be held up as a role model. I know a woman who devoted her life to charity and is held on a pedastal and regarded as a role model, Princess Diana.
Plus its hardly an achievement winning 拢25m in a divorce. Thats like saying if I was to hurt myself and then claim compensation, it would be an achievement (which its not).
Dear Victoria,
I cannot make out whether you are being serious or whether you are joking.
Kind Regards,
Alan
yes i agree. im sick and tired of the coverage of heather. her settlement is in proportion. the press is out of date, none of us really know whats whats, only the two people involved are in possesion of the facts. i try not to buy news papers because its all made up. i hope she gets a bit of peace now and the press grow up and start telling us something we need to know.
People dislike Ms Mills because she is a 'chancer'. Her saught after 拢125m was rediculous. Their duaghter is to recieve 拢34,000 each year and Mills isn't happy? This is the basic amount she will recieve. It is not as if McCartney is not going to give her more money and presesnts, etc throughout her life. Besides, I would have thought 34,000 plus school fees was perfectly adequate to raise a child each year. People do it on far less. They were only married for four years and in that light I think she was lucky to get what she did.
Yes, she has been a bastion for big causes, but rightly so. Every celebrity has a duty to use their elevated status for a cause higher than themselves. It is funny how you highlight the good work she is doing. I mean, its hardly likely that any one would be FOR landmines is it? I'm certainly not AGAINST animal rights and I'm sure that a lot of other people aren't either!
Also, people don't like her because she is a very dislikeable character. She just is. She comes across as dishonest and manipulative. There are people that you see in the media spotlight who are simply dislikeable. She is one of them.
Are you joking? A man would be put on a pedestal? I see being sexist is ok as long as you are not talking about women. Just get over the fact that people like the legendary Sir Paul McCartney more than some random topless model.
Do you think we'd all be on the side of the Duke of Edinburgh if he split from the Queen?
How can she complain that her daughter will have to survive on 拢35,000 a year. I have a wife and 2 kids and i fight for the country and get only just a bit more than that. She needs to learn to shut up, when she has clearly got more than what she deservse or more than most people. Shame on you.
I think it is the way she handled herself publicly throughout the divorce. Yes, she has overcome some extremely difficult circumstances in her life and has participated in some worthy causes, but despite that, what will be remembered is her frazzled state on television and creating a media circus around herself. Even after the court case she STILL couldn't leave quietly and be satisfied with the millions she received. Meanwhile, Paul handles the whole situation as a decent, mature person should and continues on with his career - for example, he was brilliant on the Brit Awards. While he may be upset, hurt, or seething inside he still was capable of focusing on his fans as if to say the show must go on.
I find it very strange that she and in fact you makes out that the money is for her...and her Daughter! Thats surely THEIR Daughter and its is not like she is going to be left short and she is hardly Erin Brockovich.
The reason she is so hated is because she (in the eyes of the media) snared the aging beatle after his iconic and much respected wife died. Then made bold statements about how she couldn't understand all the fuss about the beatles and that she didn't think the music was that good. Hardly an endearing start.
She then let it be known that being married to him annoyed her as she felt the "good works" she did were equally as much as he has achieved and yet she didn't get the recognition. Eh? Run that by me again?
Not to mention the tabloids stoking all the rivalry between her and the Macca kids. It's not entirely her fault but she hasn't helped herself with all the sniping and supposed chasing by the paps...oh yes and the dodgy 1980's soft porn she said she'd never do.
Its not anything to do with her being a woman. it's her as a person that has irritated , that and the media portrayal and she can't complain as she has used the media to her own ends.
I dont like to judge anyone on what little knowledge we gleen from short news reports and a frenzy of tabloid headline hunters. It would however, be interesting to know how much of Heather's good will was available mainly becuase she was given the resources and time to do so by a wealthy husband. People have to work very hard, every hour, every day to make a living and raise their children. No less important, in my opinion, than what Ms Mills-McCartny does. It is surely easy to be benevolent with no concerns for lowly matters such as paying the mortgage, shopping around for low cost school shoes and going without to save for a summer holiday; matters that concern many people's every day thinking. Now consider this against the sight of a person, who having had no wealth or significant profile before marrying a world famous, millionaire husband, standing complaining, nay, ranting about recieving a mere 拢25 million divorce settlement. I think the reaction of most ordinary, fair minded people would be that of bitterness towards such a spectacle. It is quite shameful really, so many people would jump for joy after 'Winning' such a lot of money, that this person can only see that there was more to be won. What an uncalm soul must that be?
Has'nt she gained lots of experience getting money from clients in the past???!!!
If you are able to explain to me what exactly she has contributed to be deseving of that 拢25 million then I will happily change my opinion of Health Mills. Taking into account Paul McCarthney had earned the vast majority of his fortune well before Heather Mills even came to be his wife "in sickness and in health" i'm afraid i lost as to how she deserves anything other than to be lambasted for being the money grabbing woman she is.
Heather Mills in her self- imposed thoughts of her sheer genious, has not and probably never will, realise that had she have spent the 拢600 thousand pounds that her legal tem wanted, would most likely have had a much bigger payday than she eventually got. The legal profession have a saying that goes to the effect, `The person who represents himself in court, has a fool for a client`.
Jim Walker
In response to this are you blind, you ask why do so many people dislike her, has the constant mouthing off by Miss Mills on National TV escaped you.
Victoria I'm with you all the way, right up to the point where Heather gets a mike in her face and starts talking. Then she comes out with a quote about her daughter getting "only 拢35K a year". How does she think a single mother struggling on a fraction of that is going to react.
To be honest, I don't really care very much about the details of the McCartneys' finances. Whether he gives her a few million more or less doesn't actually make a jot of difference to the lifestyle of either. They both live on a different planet to the rest of humanity and they always will.
Love is blind. If it wasn't then Paul would not have rushed into marriage straight after the love of his life died, much to the hurt it caused his family. If it wasn't blind, then Paul would have insisted on a pre-nup and all this would not have happened - because the pre-nup would have put Heather off marrying Paul in the first place!
I think she lacks attention. Uses the press. I dont believe for one minute she though this marrage was going to last. She was hoping for good compensation, thats all. Not only that, her daughter should get the money tied up in a trust and not for her mother. Its one of those woman that we love to hate. We all do good in out own way, but dont make a big sing and a dance about it. How many of us work for charity/ social services and dont get regognise..... The only reason she got regognised was a result of her convenient marraige.
Heather Mills must have some good attributes somewhere surely, hasn't she?!
The settlement says it all.
She claimed 拢125 million.
She was awarded 拢16 million.
In my opinion she is just a gold digger.
I think she lacks attention. Uses the press. I dont believe for one minute she though this marrage was going to last. She was hoping for good compensation, thats all. Not only that, her daughter should get the money tied up in a trust and not for her mother. Its one of those woman that we love to hate. We all do good in out own way, but dont make a big sing and a dance about it. How many of us work for charity/ social services and dont get regognise..... The only reason she got regognised was a result of her convenient marraige.
I can't understand why she thinks she has the right to anything - be it property/money - that he had before he married her. He is not going to let his daughter go begging by any means, so basically she's just out for herself, and anyone who thinks they need 拢24m to get by on needs a reality check. It's laughable that she thinks so highly of herself, and she's blatantly not thinking about her daughter. In a few years time, she'll be able to read all about how her mum tried to screw her dad for every penny in the courts..... how embarrassing.
For a start, there's her shady past. Taking 拢25m of somebody else's money is the main reason people dislike her. Why does it cost more to raise a child if the kid's father is rich? As people have said, one minute she's chasign the media, and the next she's trying to avoid them.
I agree with much of what Victoria says. I do think, however, she (Heather) tends to play the victim card too often. Why should it be a sexist thing I not sure McCartney has come out of this to well either he appears to be a mean son of a bi... I was aways a John Lennon fan myself
Steve Townend
To be quite honest I don't have an issue with HM. She will always be on her back foot (no pun intended) due to the British love affair with 'Saint' Paul McCartney...she was never going to be good enough to become the new Mrs M after the sad death of Linda. My parents told me that Linda McCartney had the same amount of vilification before she married him. I think the issue should be did she get a fair amount in relation to his wealth....
Problem with her, prehaps because she:
a) thinks shes hard done by in life although when you look around the world, she hasn't got a lot to moan and groan about
b) hypocritical. e.g. claiming save the world from global warming in hyde park and had a huge petrol munching car running awaiting for her to finish her drivvel.
It's not a case of what Mills has been through it is the attitude that everone has a problem with and the fact everyone wishes she would just shut up and give us all peace.. She continues and don't seem to get hte message knowbody really gives a flying cat what she has to say due to points A and B above.
Hopefully now she will shut up and turn off that god dam annoying over-opinionated ego of hers.
I wonder whether Paul's daughter played a part as I heard ages ago she was worried Heather would inherit his wealth and tried to break them up.
Goes to show how some women can be manipulative and money grabbing.
'The wrath of a woman scourne'
24.5 million payout is scandalous
Sir Paul had worked hard all his life to achieve where he is today
I suspect tabloids will still be after their flesh
In the imortal word of Sir Paul
'LET IT BE'
I wish Sir Paul all the best
Poor Heather Mills????? Poor? Poor Heather Mills? how can someone be so poor after they've led a life of luxury like hers, and now been awarded 25 million pounds.
Can someone actually explain to me what i'm hearing??
If Sir Paul was only worth 25 million pounds she would have been awarded a hell of a lot less i'm sure she would have been happy with what she got then, but because he isn't only worth 25 million she was out to get as much as she could!!
Gold Digging of the highest order i think.
The quote that sums her up "that means my daughter ONLY gets 35,000 pounds a year!" 35,000 pounds a year??? Thats more than most people i know earn...and she's not even working!!! also "That means my daughter has to travel B class when her father travels A class" How many first class flights is she planning on taking a year???
Absoulutely disgusting, i hearby state my case THAT IS WHY, so many people have it in for Heather Mills!
Paul's a British ikon, how dare anyone badmouth or wrong him in any way! I'm not a big fan of Heather Mills but she fought for what she believed was rightfully hers. Well done her.
"If she was a bloke and had achieved all that he'd be on a pedestal, lionised as a role model wouldn't he?"
Erm no, he wouldnt be. All she has achieved is shown is that she is the worlds number one gold digger. She is the scum of the earth.
Heather Mills now has the means to get on with her life and remain out of the media spotlight, as she apparently wants. So I guess we won't be seeing her on any talk shows, at book signings etc from now on...
so it's ok to assault someone by throwing water over them because you did it? can I do it to you? the woman is deranged
She recovered from an accident? So her other option was what? Death? Secured 25 million for a daughter who would've otherwise been starving no doubt. She also used her high profile to campaign for worthy causes. Well whoop dee doo.
Just because other so called celebrities do nothing does not make her scratchings at being a good human any better.
If she was a man she would still be mediocre, and no role model for any-one. She probably isn't a bad person, nor however is she saintly. She is a famous wife, who for her ex husband would have been relatively unheard of.
I think the press have pilloried that poor woman and she deserves the payout as recompense for all the crap she has had to put up with. Lets be honest 25 million wont even put a small dent in pauls fortune as the royalties keep rolling in.
Have you mental problems. What has she done to make people like her. A bit of PR (comparing herself to the women who had her clild abducted), had a car accident and got a divorce settlement for all the years that she stood by the former beatle. Hmmmm.
My problem with her is she:
a) thinks shes hard done by in life although when you look around the world, she hasn't got a lot to moan and groan about
b) hypocritical. e.g. claiming save the world from global warming in hyde park and had a huge petrol munching car running awaiting for her to finish her drivvel.
It's not a case of what Mills has been through it is the attitude that everone has a problem with and the fact everyone wishes she would just shut up and give us all peace.. She continues and don't seem to get hte message knowbody really gives a flying cat what she has to say due to points A and B above.
Hopefully now she will shut up and turn off that god dam annoying over-opinionated ego of hers.
The media seems to be focusing on Heather Mills but seem to have ignored the fact that Paul MCartney ensured this went into the public domain. He could have avoided all this by paying even 拢100 million rather than put his daughter through this. If this was an ordinary persons stellement the slpit would been almost 50/50.
I think he is pathetic arguing and wrangleing over money, he know what he was geting into as all do when we marry and he can'ttake all his money with. He had a mid life crisis but doesn't ant to pay for it.
Her only mistake was not getting decent PR and a good lawyer.
Twenty years later I wonder why I didn't just chuck the wine over him.
25 million pounds for a brief marriage to a wealthy man. 鈥淚f she was a bloke and had achieved all that he'd be on a pedestal, lionised as a role model wouldn't he?鈥
Would he? Or would he be seen as some kind of sponger? Sorry, I鈥檓 from a generation that believes you should make your own way in the world and earn your wealth. Credit to her for her charity work and recovery from injury but that has to be weighed against what appears to be somewhat mercenary behaviour and a short temper. If you want to lionise Mills for her divorce settlement do you lionise Anna Nichole Smith for her marriage to octogenarian billionaire J. Howard Marshall too?
As for throwing drinks; surely it鈥檚 a sign of emotional volatility and lack of restraint, maturity and grace under pressure. If David Cameron or Gordon Brown chucked water over the other in annoyance it wouldn鈥檛 show them in a good light would it? If two girls in a nightclub start chucking drinks over each other (or on an estate in Dewsbury) it鈥檇 be seen as loutish, anti-social behaviour. Perhaps there鈥檚 a different rule when it involves women from higher status backgrounds?
She is cold-eyed & hard-faced. A serial fiancee who moved swiftly from one "soulmate" to another when one with a larger bank balance came along (read her autibiog!). She got what she wanted from McCartney - he was far too naive for a personality like Mills. Her class is shown by the water in the courtroom incident - the sort of stunt an immature slapper pulls in a nightclub. Watch how her time spent on charity commitments declines in the next 2/3 yrs.
I'm no big fan of Paul Macartney, he's very pompous and doesn't live in the real world, never has. Some of his early Beatles work was genius but output has been largely crap for the last nearly 40 years.
Heather Mill is a self-obsessed, instantly dislikeable whiner; the classic 'gold digger'.
I'd be happy not to hear about either of them again.
Because she's a money grabbing media whore!
The only person she secured money for was herself.
As if Paul isn't going to pay for his own kids!!
P.S.
I presume you spilt the glass, splitting it would be a serious assault.
To me, Heather Mills is nothing but an attention-seeker. It is nothing to do with who Sir Paul is, it's to do with how she has conducted herself. It's hardly becoming of someone who has achieved so much for good causes.
Besides which, she wanted 拢125 million to begin with (according to an article elsewhere on this site, having previously also stated that (and I paraphrase) "it's not about the money" etc.) and for what? Marrying someone who set the foundations for his great wealth when she was a small child? And if you think about it, if it originally was all love and no money, then why (after the meltdown of the marriage and her appearance on "Dancing With The Stars") did she set up a company called Raspberry Fields to profit? Admittedly it was Lennon's song, but even so...
She also trumpets her charity work, notably in the statement yesterday. She would be better off saying nothing and letting her actions do the talking. I'm looking forward to reading how much she donates to charity from the settlement...
I have a problem with her for several reasons.
1. Why does she deserve money her husband of 4 years earned over 30 years ago?
2. Why does she expect to live the same lavish lifestyle now they are divorced, she has no divine right to be rich now.
3. 拢35,000 a year for the daughter and she still complains, i wont be earning that until i'm over 40.
4. It works out to 拢700 an hour for the time they were married. What did she do to earn this?
5. She claims to be a green campaigner but turns up to a campaign event in a big 4x4 with a back seat full on un-recycled plastic bottles - hypocrite if you ask me.
All this and she still has to tell all to the press on the steps of the court and complain about getting 拢24 million; while Paul just waves and leaves in a car, why couldn't she do that?
I think Paul MacCartney has been the victim of the perfect honey trap,he was flattered by someone so young showing him some attention and now she has taken him to the cleaners.She rants and raves about attention but deep down she loves it all,the one I pity is their daughter.I also think the 25 million should just be enough to feed Heathers ego
If she is fit enough to take part in a dancing competion, is she not fit enough to get a job.
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AMEN.
Heather Mills is a calculating scheming woman.
He previous history with other men and the way she has lied and cheated them, shows the type of woman she is.
She is a gold digger and planned all of this.
She is also pretty common and despite her air's and graces, she spouts verbal diarrhoea.
She has masterminded her own misfortunes in this case.
30 pieces of silver, perhaps
SC
"without powerful and expensive barristers"
Implying Her husband has access to these expensive barristers, please no one for a moment believes she is short of a bob of two to fund the same.
"injuries included"
Injury of any kind does not negate a personality
"she's managed to secure"
Taking something you never earned, or helped earn is not and never will be a notable attribute.
"If she was a bloke"
Lets try that the other way... "If she was a bird" derogatory now isn't it.
"had achieved all that"
Physically Injured, worked for charity, done their ex for millions. Quite an achievement.
"I wonder why I didn't just chuck the wine over him"
I don't.
People do not like Ms Mills because she is conniving, hypocritical and neurotic.
OK, Paul McCartney has one of the most untouchable reputations in the entire world and anyone with the temerity to claim he is anything other than saintly should prepare for the worst.
But she does not help her own cause - her ill-fated interviews on GMTV and other breakfast related shows were an embarrassment and she is seemingly unaware of the irony of using the Press to specifically decry it.
Her campaigning for worthy causes was admirable, but on review, (and taking into consideration her character which has now been totally exposed) one wonders whether she did it primarily for publicity.
It landed her a wealthy husband after all.
Can anyone female answer me this?
Q: What incentive is there for a man to marry a women?
If the relationship breaks up it's always the women who has been ill-used, never the man. Women get the children, the house, the money and yet bleat about their hard-up life. A life they have taken no responsibility or accountability for, rarely saving for a pension, paying a mortgage, saving or investing. Men are just meal tickets to a lot of women, particularly beautiful women.
Heather Mills hasn't done a days work in her life, and she's complaining about getting just 拢25m? Her comments yesterday showed what an apalling human being she is, and only a women can think she's great or has been hard done by.
Victoria, you have lost the plot...
Why should she get a lions share of his money. Hes been earning this money for 40 or so years. Can't she earn money on her own. Of course he should provide money for his daughter and yes her causes are admirable. Yet pleading poverty and coming on the news all tearful wanting lots of money. Why doesn't she just get a job like the rest of us. Also why all the emphasis on her disablity. There are plenty of other disabled people and many are not getting 25 million in a divorce settlement
Victoria -
I thought I'd guide you to Barbara Walters views on her!
People do not like Ms Mills because she is conniving, hypocritical and neurotic.
OK, Paul McCartney has one of the most untouchable reputations in the entire world and anyone with the temerity to claim he is anything other than saintly should prepare for the worst.
But she does not help her own cause - her ill-fated interviews on GMTV and other breakfast related shows were an embarrassment and she is seemingly unaware of the irony of using the Press to specifically decry it.
Her campaigning for worthy causes was admirable, but on review, (and taking into consideration her character which has now been totally exposed) one wonders whether she did it primarily for publicity.
It landed her an incredibly wealthy husband after all.
I just think Heather should have kept quiet about the settlement, she appears to not know the meaning of the word dignity. A lot of people would have a lot more admiration for her if she just acted a little less vociferously.
And NO, she wouldn't have been lionised if she was a man, what a ridiculous comment. Why does there have to be this "if she was man" clap trap? Men are evil, selfish, manipulating and, more to the point, childish (did you not know no man ages past 12?) The propensity of recent years for women to behave like men, laddette behaviour, is so crass. There's no need for either sex to behave in this way.
Heather is OK, she should stick to her "charity" work, be happy she got what she got (by the way, good luck to her!) and don't, even under the severest "pressure" from the media, open her gob again on the subject, that way, she wins all round.
I'll not hold my breath by the way!
PS: did Fi Glover throw wine over you Vic?
Heather should come visit planet earth this year!
I am 24 and have worked since i was 16, my girlfriend is currently in her last year at uni, we are scraping every penny we have together at the moment as we are trying to buy our first house.....which is a nightmare!
So when i see complete nobodies like Heather endlessly complaining about everything she should take a look at the vast majority of this country who struggle day in day out!!!! If someone gave us 拢1000 it would seem like the world at the moment, she has 拢24 million.....what a joke
Excuse me?
She used to be a porn star, she had an accident (like millions of people every year) and has no talents other than she let a beatle drop his load in her. can you please explain why she is worthy of 25million pounds?
As for your comment about 'if she were a man she would be lionised' i find that the most sexist and offensive comment i have read in a long time! how dare you make such a discriminatory comment towards men. i would suggest that if that is the way you look at issues (not right/wrong, but dependant on whether they are male or female, you dont deserve to have a space on the bbc front page.
And for throwing water/wine over someone - just goes to show how similar you are to Mills - not able to formate an articulate argument so end up using violence (violence, that i might add, if done by a man would be seen as abhorrent and probaly ending in a court case)
I think the settlement is more than adequate; on top of it Paul McCartney (not McCartnery!) will be paying for his daughter's nanny and school fees, plus 拢35K p.a. for her expenses (better than "B Class" I'd have thought?), so that leaves all the 拢24.3 million for Mum.
As for her relationship with the press and public, perhaps a dignified silence would've been more appropriate for a woman as wronged as she claims to have been?
hi Victoria
Fancy a glass of wine? as for Ms Mills if she had any sense she would disappear till the next comet appears....as she clearly doesn't have sense I look forward to avoiding reading about her.
Perhaps if you wanted to report objectively on the Heather Mills settlement, you would report that she received about 3% of the generally believed wealth of Paul of 拢800 million. You could then put this into perpective by reporting for marriages of 15 years or more the wife receives 50% of the husband's estate, and then by going on to say that, on this basis, Heather after 4 years of marriage could expect to receive somewhat over 拢100 million, and this, taking into account the need to provide for the upkeep and security of her daughter, puts her claim for 拢125 million into a fairer perspective. Maybe, if she had been prepared to pay 拢600,000 to the legal profession, her case and her reputation would have been seen in a better light.
Colin
from
Penn
I'm afraid there seem to have been so many 'Gold-Diggers' over recent years, coupled with the fact that our Social-System, Media and 'PC' seems to be overly - biassed towards Women.
In so many Cases of Marital-breakups, especially within the Working-Class, the Man invariably comes off worse.
I believe the Prime reason for much of this is that Governement realises that the Woman is more likely to cost the benefit-System more, than the Man would, in such Break-ups.
The Man is the cheaper Option...
Hi
I appreciate the quality and variety of your comments, and am surprised that so many people do want to post about HM. Lots of emails arrived this morning with the prefix "I don't care much for HM but..."and went on to describe how she was annoying/crass/misrepresented etc etc.
If she came on the programme again, would you all tune in?
Thanks
Victoria
No problem with Heather McCartney as such. She could get real though and stop pretending to be the total injured party in all this. Paul McCartney has settled a small fortune on her and she's still bitching.
Heather Mills offends me because she is one of these famous types who has such a misguided and deluded high opinion of herself to think that she can manipulate public opinion by trying to win favour by for example, amongst other things, incessantly referring to all her charity work, how vulgar. She spends too much time channel hopping from chat show to chat show trying to tell us what we should think of her at so much as the sight of a microphone and camera. We're quite capable of forging our own opinions and frankly she doesn't have the intelligence to fool anyone, though it really annoys me that she thinks she does, how arrogant.
I rang in today and talked about how the press lie and twist facts and how hypocritical it was that a tabloid "journalist" had the cheek to accuse Heather Mills of being a hypocrite for talking to the press.
Day after day nearly every subject discussed ends up mentioning the role of the press and the lies they tell and you, not surprisingly, defending your collegues.
I wonder when are we going to have the discussion that is constantly brushed over and that is "Why do we make excuses for the lies or half truths the press tell, why are they allowed to get away with it, and why is it that so many people have to be trained to deal with the press, because if they give anything away the press will run with it, whatever the actual truth and main point was?" Think how much public money would be saved if nearly all civil servants no matter how low in the organisation, did not need to be trained in dealing with the press.
You asked me today "how did I know the press lie?" and although I know from personal experiences involving people close to me, you also only need to look at the daily coverage of this divorce case to see how the press lie. Whilst it was generally agreed that no infomation was coming out during the week long attempt at making a settlement, we had daily story claiming "A deal was made" for varies amounts and then some articles claiming no deal (usually in the same paper the very next day), only to be followed by a new deal that had been "signed sealed and delivered". Even on Saturday The Mail claimed a 拢48 million settlement had been agreed. This was obviously made up as the rest were, but the public are so used to it that they just dismiss it and get on reading the next fabrication.
It would be good to hear a show to discuss what needs to be done about the press (I know you had the apologist from the PCC on once, but he was hardly creditable and played the naive role). Let me know if you want a member of the public to help with it.