Heather Mills is converting a fish restaurant near her home into a vegan eatery, and rumor has it that she intends to start a global chain of vegan restaurants:

She has never been one to shy away from controversy.

So when Heather Mills decided to buy a popular fish restaurant near her home, her first move was obvious: take fish off the menu.

Miss Mills plans to turn the seaside eaterie into a vegan restaurant, believed to be the first in a planned worldwide chain.

And there was bad news for staff as well as seafood-loving clientele: the current owner has laid them off and told them they will not be re-employed when the renovated cafe re-opens.

Miss Mills, 41, signed the deal to take over the Big Fish Cafe near her home in Hove, East Sussex, on Friday.

Daily Mail

As far as Heather Mills ‘great’ ideas go, this might be one of the better ones. Certainly it ranks higher than her plan to represent herself in divorce court. There are a lot of vegans who would love to be able to go to a restaurant and have a large choice of food instead of just one or two dishes that a non-vegan restaurant might offer, and many people would love to try quality vegan food.

If Heather chooses to go fast food style with this, are we going to see her face in cartoon form, promoting kiddie tofu on television? Because as much as I think this is a good idea, and I’d love to have good choice of healthy food via a drive-thru, Heather Mills is hardly the lovable character that Colonel Sanders is. Besides, Heather has a hard time keeping publicists, mostly because she doesn’t like to pay them and has an inability to self censor or take advice.

Heather is attracting some negative publicity for the planned venture. While it’s unfortunate she sacked staff, she wasn’t obliged to keep them on. But the previous owner says she stiffed him out of money and paid him £115,000 ($160,000 USD) less than she originally agreed on.

‘Last July I decided to sell so I got in touch. I went to see her at her home and we made a verbal agreement for £255,000. That was later agreed in writing.

‘The arrangement changed in November,’ Mr Short told the Sunday Mirror. ‘I got a letter from her lawyer saying the price had dropped to £140,000. It blamed the credit crunch and the “current economic climate”.

‘Her lawyer said there were other issues such as the cost of the ground rent going up and the need to renovate the windows. I was shocked, absolutely gutted.’

And he claimed: ‘I’d put off other buyers who were offering the full price thinking I had a deal with Heather. There was nowhere else I could go.’

Daily Mail

If you have an agreement in writing, can you just decide to knock £115,000 off the price and the seller has to accept it? If there was some urgency to sell perhaps he had to accept Heather’s offer, but if he had other interested offers why didn’t he tell Heather to forget it and re-list the property? Something in Mr Short’s story smells fishy, pun intended.

Heather Mills is shown hosting a healthy cooking day for families in the Bronx on 1/10/09. Credit: WENN.com

Paul McCartney maintained a very dignified silence during his divorce from Heather Mills. In fact, he was very polite during their marriage as well – especially considering how utterly miserable he must have been. Paul has finally made a few vague and veiled comments about what he went through. They’re not all out attacks or anything inflammatory like The Sun makes it sound. Considering the way Heather has been towards him, it’s more than appropriate for Paul to make a comment or two.

SIR PAUL MCCARTNEY has spoken out on his bitter divorce from HEATHER MILLS, saying: “I’ve been through a dark place.” Macca, 66, gave his most honest account of his love-split pain and made a thinly-veiled attack on his ex-wife. He also said he is “a man who needs love” — as he is tipped to wed US heiress Nancy Shevell, 49.

The BEATLES legend said his emotions over the break-up came out when recording latest album Electric Arguments as part of duo The Fireman. He said: “Love and light is mentioned a lot on the album. Parts of it are dark and edgy.

“It could be because I’ve been through a dark place. I am a man who needs love. Every man needs love, guys like romance. I do anyway.”

Ranting Mucca, 41 — wed to Sir Paul for six years — won a £24.3million divorce settlement last March. Macca said: “Things don’t always work out but I like the idea of being dignified. I don’t think it helps to mouth off all the time.”

[From The Sun]

McCartney did an excellent job of maintaining his dignity throughout his long and arduous divorce. Of course I’m sure Heather Mills would say the same about herself, but she’s a head case. Paul obviously cared enough about the well-being of their young daughter Beatrice not to mouth off every chance he got. Heather Mills, as I remember it, decided instead to throw a jug of water on McCartney’s attorney on the last day of their trial.

It isn’t hard to imagine that being married to Heather Mills would put any man in a dark place, like Sir Paul mentioned. It’s normal to need love, and I doubt you can get much from a woman like her. Even when he speaks out, McCartney is still polite and respectful. Though he’s denied any upcoming wedding plans with current girlfriend Nancy Shevell, the two are clearly happy together. And he deserves nothing less.

Here’s Paul McCartney poseing for photographers on 57th Street in Manhattan on January 14th. According to Splash, “photographers chased McCartney’s car and midway thru the chase, his car pulled over and McCartney exited his vehicle alone. A deal was made with the paparazzi that he pose for photographers and no one would follow the car.” What a gentleman. Images thanks to Splash.

There are few things as cringe-inducing as being somehow associated with Heather Mills. Poor Paul McCartney will have to deal with that for the rest of his life. Their daughter Beatrice will have to do the same. But what if you’re some completely unrelated person who Heather randomly calls her “good friend?” That’s just entirely unfair, and she should know better. That’s the case with Hillary Clinton. Poor Hillary has just been tied to Heather Mills, through Mills’ comparison of herself to the former first lady and senator and now Secretary of State. This may be Clinton’s first major diplomatic issue.

Heather Mills has compared herself to her “friend” Hillary Clinton.

The former glamor [sic] model – who bagged a $50m settlement when she finalized her divorce from Beatles legend Sir Paul McCartney in 2008 – said both she and Hillary, who is now the US Secretary of State, had gone through “hell” but triumphed because of their “strength”.

She told Page Six Magazine, “When you marry a Beatle, you marry 120 million fans who are also madly in love with him. This has meant years of hurtful and untrue press… my friends remind me that this happens to many strong, successful women.

“I’ve watched my friend Hillary Clinton go through a hell of a time and still come out on top due to her strength.”

Referring to her current relationship with Paul, 66, former glamor [sic] girl Heather said, “We get on fine. We’re like any civil divorced couple.”

[From Gossip Rocks]

Now it’s impossible to say for certain, but I highly doubt Heather Mills and Hillary Clinton are friends. Best/worst case scenario (depending on if you’re Heather or Hillary) is they probably shook hands at a function once. At which time Clinton probably felt certain – for the first time – that she’d finally found the one woman where didn’t need to worry about keeping an eye on Bill. Maybe that led to some friendly chatter, who knows? But I highly doubt they’re friends. And Heather comparing herself to Clinton is utterly ridiculous.

Hillary – while not always popular – has weathered her marital difficulties with privacy and grace. Which is very difficult to do when you hold a public office. Heather exploited her divorce at every turn, and wallowed in her own nastiness. I can’t imagine anyone I’d rather avoid being compared to than Heather Mills. Next she’s going to say she wants to run for public office.

Here’s Heather Mills leaving the Ivy restaurant in London on October 13th. Images thanks to Bauer-Griffin.

Paul McCartney may be ready to walk down the aisle a third time. This time, it’s to his current girlfriend, Nancy Shevell. Though they have only been dating for a year, Nancy and Paul have known each other for over 30 years, and his children adore her. Even Paul’s daughter Stella McCartney, who was highly vocal about her dislike of Heather Mills, approves. Nancy separated from her husband of over 20 years in 2007, and their divorce became final last month, leaving the couple free to get married. Sources close to the couple say that it might happen very soon.

Sir Paul and Linda were friends of Nancy and her ex Bruce on the dinner-party circuit in the exclusive US East Coast holiday retreat of The Hamptons, Long Island. The families developed a closer bond when Nancy was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1996, a year after Linda.

Maccas’s friends and family view Nancy as much closer in spirit to Linda than former model Heather, whose murky past caused Sir Paul huge embarrassment before to their £24million divorce.

The source added: “Nancy has been through a lot – not least overcoming breast cancer. She also comes from a similar wealthy East Coast background to Linda. They shared a similar outlook on life. She joined the family firm in the 1980s and has become wealthy in her own right. It makes everyone comfortable that she is clearly not after Paul’s money.

“It suits Paul that she is also discreet and, unlike Heather, does not court publicity.”

Nancy has even reportedly toned down her right-wing Republican views to align herself more with Sir Paul’s liberal political outlook. She has also swapped her favourite steaks for veggie dishes in deference to his long-standing refusal to eat meat.

The friend said: “Paul is a big believer in the institution of marriage, and his friends are in absolutely no doubt he will propose to Nancy in time.

“Her divorce has been hanging over them – with all the baggage from the past that it represents. So it feels like a great relief to have it all sorted.”

Nancy, whose family freight business is worth around £250million, legally separated from Bruce in November 2007 after 23 years.

[from Mirror.co.uk via Gossip Rocks]

I’m not convinced that Heather Mills’ recent comments on her desirability and the finalization of Paul McCartney’s girlfriend’s divorce are purely coincidental. Heather may never be likeable, but she does have a knack for getting noticed in the press at just the right moment. Just not for the right kinds of things.

If the reports are true, congratulations to the couple and hopefully the marriage will go more smoothly than Sir Paul’s last.

Nancy Shevell and Paul McCartney are shown out in London on 11/11/08. Credit: Bauergriffin

Heather Mills is one of the internet’s favorite people to despise. And she makes it so damn easy. She’s made some minor efforts to improve her reputation since moving to New York City, and has worked with some local food banks to get healthier products out to needy communities. But ultimately, Heather is still Heather, which means she’s got a huge, undeserved ego and doesn’t mind prattling on about it. Including how she has to beat men off with a stick.

HEATHER Mills, who lives in the West Village, says Manhattan men are always chasing her. “I’ve got so many stunning girlfriends who can’t get a boyfriend,” the one-legged ex-wife of Paul McCartney tells Page Six Magazine in this Sunday’s Post. “But when I go out here, I get asked out all the time, and my girlfriends – who are better looking than me – say, ‘How the hell does that happen?!’ Maybe it’s because I’m comfortable with myself.” Her $50 million divorce settlement probably doesn’t hurt, either.

[From Page Six]

I love how many articles manage to mention Heather’s one-leggedness. If it were anyone else, that’d be considered absolutely inappropriate (because they always say it as a snide insult), but with Heather, she’s so despised that it’s sort of a no-holds barred situation.

I’m sure she does manage to get a lot of guys to hit on her, even if they don’t know who she is. Actually, I’d say especially if they don’t know who she is. Just to look at Heather, she’s not the most unattractive creature in the world. Especially if you don’t know about her personality, because that certainly makes her unappealing. But if you were just to look at her in a vacuum, I guess she’s alright. I doubt a whole lot of guys call her for a second date (unless they really are itching for the cash), but Heather has to cling to whatever little bits of attention she can, and this is probably enough for her.

Here’s Heather all bundled up as she heads into the Avalon Salon and Day Spa in the West Village on January 6th. Images thanks to Bauer-Griffin.

Heather Mills really needs attention. Badly. Painfully, even. When you’re not married to someone famous anymore but you still crave the limelight, what do you do? Well, if you’re Heather, you chop off all your hair in a piss poor attempt to imitate Victoria Beckham’s surprising crop job from a few months ago. And then when you’re surprised that no one’s even noticed, you go on The Today Show to yak about your vegan charity. Oh, and brag about how awesome your life is. Even though everyone despises you.

It is an age old trick employed by women the world over to show their old flame they have moved on. And it seems Heather Mills is no exception as she showed off a stylish new haircut on a television show. The 40-year-old has chopped off her long locks and is now sporting a chic cropped style and where once it was a mousy blonde shade, she has now opted for a much lighter bottle blonde.

“I’d actually been thinking about cutting my hair for quite a while. I hope now this is a fresh beginning,” she said. The new look comes as Sir Paul McCartney’s ex-wife bids to raise her profile and that of her charity in the US. She appeared popular American magazine programme The Today Show to promote her vegan charity.

Talking about the divorce she added: ‘It was a very difficult time for everybody involved. We were most importantly trying to protect our daughter and she seems to have come through incredibly well. Everyone I know who has been through a divorce, finds it really, really difficult, I don’t know anyone that didn’t go through a hard time. We just went through it publicly. But things are great, really good.’

She went on to boast about her ‘vegan food push’ where [she] claimed to have donated $1 million (£670,000) of food to children in New York’s rundown Bronx area. ‘I’ve been studying nutrition for a long time now. I am just trying to bring awareness,’ she bragged before adding that she was considering building a food factory in the area to bring in jobs.

[From the Daily Mail]

Thank goodness the good people of New York City have Heather Mills to save us with tofu dogs and quorn chicken substitute. And really, nothing will dramatically change everything in your life and give you a “fresh beginning,” like a haircut. I once chopped off all my locks and woke up as a man in the middle of Russia. It really can create extreme change. I’m glad Heather stumbled upon it. She doesn’t need to do anything like working on herself or going into therapy so she’s not such a raging bitch who’s reviled around the world. A quick trip to the salon and a few snips and she’s as good as new.

Here’s Heather hosting a “healthy cooking day” for the families of the Bronx on Saturday. I really hate to admit it, but these photos make me hate her a teeny, tiny bit less. Almost. Images thanks to WENN.

It seems like many people who have the unfortunate task of working for Heather Mills opt to sue her at some point. Her former publicist sued her earlier this year for nonpayment of $300,000 for over four years of work. Mills kept promising her PR rep Michele Elyzabeth that she would pay her once she received her divorce settlement, only to turn around and stiff her once the millions were in the bank. Elyzabeth says that Mills also made her cover most of their meals and drinks when they went out.

Now Mills’ former nanny is telling a disturbing story of the harassment she endured from Paul McCartney’s ex wife. The nanny, who resigned in September when she tried to return to work after maternity leave, has filed suit alleging that Mills made her come in early every morning to blow dry her hair and forced her to give her naked spray tans once a week.

Heather Mills was said to be devastated last night after it emerged her former nanny is taking her to a tribunal alleging sex discrimination and intimidation.

Sara Trumble claims she was given duties way beyond her role as childminder to five-year-old Beatrice, Miss Mills’s daughter by Sir Paul McCartney.

She has complained she was asked to give Miss Mills naked spray tans, come to work at 7.30am to blow dry her hair, and work as late as midnight.

The 24-year- old nanny lodged a constructive dismissal claim with an employment tribunal in Ashford, Kent, last week.

The two sides now have 28 days to try to reach an agreement – and if they fail they will have to air their differences in court…

Miss Trumble resigned in September and claims her job altered after she returned to work from maternity leave earlier this year.

She has complained to friends that she was made to work unsociable hours, including in March this year when she says she was asked to drive to Heathrow at midnight to collect Beatrice, who had flown in from the United States accompanied by a security guard.

According to a Sunday newspaper, Miss Trumble says she had to give Miss Mills weekly fake-tanning sessions.

Miss Trumble is expected to claim that she felt intimidated by Miss Mills, who demanded she keep silent about everything she saw and heard while working for her.

[From The Daily Mail]

A source from Mills’ side counters that she gave the nanny a car when she left the job and paid her medical expenses. Even if that’s true, it’s no excuse for making the woman blow dry her hair every morning and give spray tans. She’s a nanny, not a beautician.

If this was the first allegation against Mills you might be inclined to see her side of the story, but given everything we’ve heard about her the claims are likely to be understated. Working for that sociopath must take a lot out of a person and maybe this woman will get some compensation for all that she endured.

Mills is stubborn and loves playing the victim so you know this isn’t the last we’ll hear of this. She’ll let it drag out into court and it will probably end up costing her much more than if she’d just quietly settled it – not unlike her insistence that she represent herself in the divorce proceedings. She ended up costing herself tens of millions in the divorce by continuing to plead her delusional case and ruining her credibility every time she opened her mouth. We’re sure to learn more about this case while Mills shrieks that it’s everyone else’s fault and they’re all out to get her.

Heather Mills is shown on 8/16/08. Credit WENN

A new song on Paul McCartney’s new album, Electric Arguments, with “side project” band The Fireman, is definitely not about Heather Mills, as has been speculated, according to the ex-Beatle. “Nothing Too Much, Just Out of Sight” was thought by many to have been written about McCartney’s ex-wife whom he divorced this year.

Lyrics in the track include: “I remember you well/ Oh woman betrayed you/ I couldn’t resist you/ When I made you.”

However, Paul insists people are reading too much into the song, which is actually a sister track to his former band The Beatles’ popular song ‘Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da’.

He explained: “I didn’t have anyone in mind. There was an African guy called Jimmy Scott who I used to meet in nightclubs in London during the 60s.

“He was the guy who said to me, ‘Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, life goes on’ and the other thing he used to say was, ‘Nothing too much man, just out of sight.’

“I always thought that it was a great thing to say, so it was really Jimmy. I just flew off that line and shouted out things around it.”

[From Female First]

I giggled just a little when I read that McCartney’s “side project” is called The Fireman, after recent news that Mills is scrambling to save her unsanctioned swimming pool by making it available to the firemen in the village. Isn’t it funny that Heather is hoping the firemen will save her perceived entitlements, while The Fireman are backing up her husband in a song thought to be villifying her? Irony is amusing.

While Paul McCartney’s music has had its ups and downs over the years, there aren’t many of people who would argue he isn’t a great lyricist. Not as existential as his former writing partner, John Lennon, but sometimes simplicity is what makes a song great. For that reason I also find it amusing that McCartney describes his songwriting process as flying off a line and just shouting things around it. They may be simple, but they’re always expertly crafted.

Sir Paul described the difference between himself and Lennon, saying, “John and I grew up together and I think we were both as experimental as each other but perception-wise he was the more experimental one. I’d been doing it as a hobby but with John it was the ‘main event’. That was John’s courage. The whole point of The Fireman is that’s it’s a very free approach.”

Here’s the song. This is not an official music video:

Paul McCartney is shown on 11/24/08 turning on the Christmas Lights at Stella McCartney’s shop in London with Peter Kay. Credit: WENN

Heather Mills is whinging about the Daily Express, Daily Mail and The Sun newspapers in Britain, as well as a smaller publication the London Lite. She has lodged a complaint with the Press Complaints Commission in Britian.

A PCC spokesman confirmed it had received “complaints about various issues including privacy and accuracy.”

An investigation has been launched, and will take up to 35 days to complete.

Mills also complained about local newspaper London Lite.

There were no further details about the nature of her complaints.

In May, Sir Paul and Mills ended their six-year marriage in London’s High Court.
During the divorce proceedings, the model and charity campaigner was heavily criticised in the press, particularly after the judge said her evidence had been “inconsistent, inaccurate” and “less than candid”.

BBC

Heather is possibly complaining about the unfortunate publication of nude photos from her past that she clearly hadn’t buried deep enough, and the associated speculation that she might have been something slightly more salacious than just a nude model.

Heather has been complaining for months that she can’t move on from her divorce, says she has kept quiet for the sake of her daughter, and has threatened to move to the US to escape the UK press. Heather, despite this, is clearly clinging onto the celebrity given to her from her marriage and divorce, and certainly isn’t moving on. She’s been formally separated from Sir Paul for over a year, isn’t it time to just move on?

If the PCC finds that the newspapers were in the wrong, Heather may go in for her third legal battle this year. In May she finalized her divorce, and in September she sued her publicist for telling the press she was a bitch and ‘obsessed with money and fame’. She has reportedly not paid the publicist $300,000 for four years of work.

Heather Mills is shown during her ranting press conference after her divorce was finalized on 3/17/08. Credit: PRPhotos

Heather Mills is desperate to keep the swimming pool she had put in at her Robertsbridge, East Sussex home. Mills had the pool installed without proper planning permission and now, in an effort to get the District Council to give her retroactive permission, she is offerring the use of it to the local fire brigade for use in case of fire in the village. Ironically, the Council discovered the unauthorized swimming pool when they toured the property to make sure Mills had removed a marquee she had put up without proper permission before.

Planners from Rother District Council spotted the luxury pool when they visited Heather’s home to make sure she had taken down a marquee she had put up without permission earlier in the year.

And when they saw the pool, they quizzed her about when it was built and if permission had been granted.

They soon discovered that no permission had been granted and are now in the process of making a decision on whether Heather will have to concrete over the pool in the grounds of her luxury home.
Heather, however, has now lodged an appeal to keep her 40ft x 22ft pool – saying it could be used to help douse house fires in the area.

He agent David Bailey said: “In an emergency it could be used by the fire brigade. It is solely a recreational facility for the enjoyment of the private residence.”

[From Daily Mail]

Leave it to Heather to think she’s doesn’t need the permission of the city planners to do what she wants. One would think after having to take down one structure she had put up without the proper permits and permission she would have made sure and done things right with the pool. I’d like to live in Heather Mills land for just a couple minutes. Where everybody owes you and rules for the common people don’t apply, where the greatest gift you can give is vegan food to homeless people and you can burn through $25 million in 7 months. Just a couple minutes, though, because that’s just too much lala for a normal person to take for too long.

Even more ironic, the vegetarian extraordinaire built her £1million pool over the vegatable garden on her property. Mills says that since she can buy all her vegetables from the supermarket now it was no longer necessary. The greenhouses, which are dilapidated, are intended to be turned into housing for the pool equipment.

The Council planning chiefs will decide if Mills can keep the pool later this month.

Heather Mills is shown at a book party on 6/3/08. Credit: Fame Pictures