I am so jealous of the lucky few who are privy to the details and daily histrionics in the Heather Mills-Paul McCartney divorce. It’s already being called “The Divorce of the Century.” Unfortunately, the proceedings are closed to the public– but somehow, news about what’s happening behind those closed doors seems to find its way to the media. Lucky for us!

The latest feud between the estranged couple concerns the education of their four-year-old daughter, Beatrice. Reportedly, Paul feels that Bea should attend public school, just like his older children did when they were young.

He wants her education to be like that of his three other children Stella, Mary and James.

Private education, in his estimation, “messes up” children and he hopes Beatrice would gain from being grounded by the experience of state schooling.

Sir Paul has told friends how his other children had “certainly turned out all right”.

Stella is a successful fashion designer with stores in such places as London’s New Bond Street. Mary is similarly successful as a fashion photographer and James is working in the music industry.

[From The Daily Mail]

However, Heather Mills, in typical, money-grubbing fashion, insists that the pre-schooler should attend a high-end private school. She claims that Bea’s life is at risk in a public school and she needs 24-hour security.

Meanwhile, the Sun is claiming that Paul has once again offered Mills a lump sum of cash to call off the spectacle and get a quiet divorce. He previously offered Mills £10 million to get lost, which she turned down. It’s reported that Mills won’t settle for anything less than £100 million.

ANGRY Sir Paul McCartney told his lawyer to offer Heather Mills £30million to “get her off my back”, it was claimed yesterday.

The order came as he was walking to lunch with £500-an-hour legal eagle Fiona Shackleton.

He was overheard by stunned Mike Pritchard, leaving London’s Royal Courts of Justice at the same time.

Mike, 59, from Cardiff, said: “I had been at another case. I was about a yard behind them.

“He was very irate and told his lawyer, ‘Offer her £30million — get her off my back’.

[From The Sun]

Maybe Paul should hold onto his millions, though, because News of the World is reporting that Mills spent the last six months of their marriage having a torrid affair. British film editor Tim Steel supplied some pretty explicit details about his time with Heather in an exclusive interview, saying that Heather showed him affectionate text messages Paul had sent her, just before hopping into bed with him.

“I didn’t mind—I suppose I was flattered that Heather still wanted to have sex with me despite being pursued by this musical demi-god,” says Tim, breaking his silence on an affair that will stun the nation.

“Heather was insatiable between the sheets and she liked to call me her four-times-a-night guy. Our record was six.”

“Most of the time it was multiple orgasms. Heather has a very unusual erogenous zone—her stump. I used to massage one particular sensitive area of it and give her an orgasm!

“But it was strange lying in bed talking about Paul McCartney. I would be with her when he called or texted her. She’d even show me the texts!”

Leeds-born Tim’s shocking account of their affair will deal a heavy blow to 65-year-old Macca’s pride—and put a time-bomb under Mucca’s bid to squeeze an £80million pay-off out of the pop legend.

[From News of the World]

First of all–gross! Second of all, as much as I would love to believe this story, because I loathe Heather Mills, this is News of the World. If this guy really was sleeping with Mills, wouldn’t Paul’s lawyer be all over this?

Hopefully, Heather is exposed for the gold-digger she is, and doesn’t get a dime. Either way, this divorce is generating enough tawdry gossip to last a lifetime.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Heather Mills and Paul McCartney are shown outside their divorce proceedings yesterday, thanks to PRPhotos.

Sometimes, I tell myself, “Self, you should really stop picking on Heather Mills. I mean, at this point it’s like shooting fish in a barrel.” But then Heather does something else ridiculous, and I just can’t help myself. During day two of the McCartney-Mills divorce trial, Heather showed up in court with an entourage, including her sister, another friend, her makeup artist and her personal trainer. Heather is representing herself in the divorce and so far, she is behaving like a buffoon. Wait–I’m going to try to be nice and say that maybe she didn’t realize most lawyers don’t take breaks to workout or have their makeup done in the middle of a trial.

Vain Heather arrived at court yesterday — flanked by a posse of sidekicks, including her personal trainer and MAKE-UP artist.

The ex-model, dubbed Mucca over her porn past, also brought her sister Fiona, a female pal, a minder, a chauffeur — and a lone solicitor to advise on legal protocol as she represents herself in court.

Heather, pleading her own case after she was dumped by her lawyers, aims to wring up to £100million out of former Beatle Macca, who is said to have an £825million fortune.

[From The Sun]

100 million? She must be smoking Amy Winehouse’s old stash. Court witnesses say that Mills started her case by showing lovey-dovey photos of Paul and her together, to establish that she was the singer’s “rock,” and therefore deserved a cut of his fortune. Rock? Maybe….the rock tied around Paul’s NECK. But she didn’t stop there: Mills also likened herself to Princess Diana in open court.

It is understood she also screened a video likening herself to Princess Diana — claiming she was hounded by paparazzi and needed 24-hour security to avoid the same fate.

Oh, if only. That may be true, she is hounded by paparazzi– but what does it have to do with her demand for 100 million? She brought that on herself by acting like an insufferable bitch.

Paul, for his part, seemed “relaxed” and smiled as he entered the courtroom with his lawyer. And no, he didn’t have a makeup artist, personal trainer, spiritual adviser or anyone else with him. However, when Heather saw her ex, she immediately bolted for the bathroom– the first of four bathroom breaks she took during the court session. No word on whether the makeup artist went with her.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Heather Mills and Sir Paul McCartney are shown outside of court on Monday, thanks to Splash News.

That Heather Mills– she’s just so talented! Not only does she lend her considerable charm, grace and credibility to such organizations as Vegetarians International Voice for Animals (VIVA), but now she is also starting what I’m sure will be a brilliant career as a lawyer. Mills dropped her legal counsel in her divorce war against Paul McCartney, and is not only representing herself in a hearing against her estranged husband next week, but also plans on suing her former firm for giving her ‘bad legal advice.’ This is the same firm used by Princess Diana in her divorce from Prince Charles.

Heather Mills is set to sue her former divorce lawyers for bad advice - even though she already owes them £2million in fees.

The latest legal action comes as Ms Mills prepares to go face-to-face with her estranged husband Sir Paul McCartney for a dramatic five-day divorce hearing that will decide how much she receives from his estimated £825 million fortune.

Ms. Mills, 40, will represent herself at the High Court hearing, which begins on Monday, having split from her divorce lawyers Mishcon de Reya. Insolvency lawyers at Mishcons are now pursuing Ms. Mills for almost 20 months of unpaid bills and are expected to launch a legal action in the next two weeks.

A source close to Ms. Mills told the Evening Standard: “There is a possibility of Heather Mills counter-suing. Whatever she owes Mishcons - whether it’s £1 million or £2 million - one would have expected her to get something for it and one fails to see what they [Mishcons] got her. There has been no divorce settlement and no outcome over all this time so draw your own conclusion as to the service she received from Mishcons.”

[From From This is London UK]

I like the way Heather thinks. There’s been no divorce settlement, and no agreement by Paul’s lawyers over her extravagant and delusional demands, so surely its her lawyer’s fault, not hers! Her ex-law firm has fought back against Heather’s claim they poorly advised her, saying that she never followed their suggestions in the first place.

Sources said the firm will defend the advice it gave Ms Mills and suggested lawyers were frustrated that she often refused to take the legal advice given.

The slur will raise eyebrows as Ms Mills was being represented by Anthony Julius, the Mishcon litigator who also handled Princess Diana’s divorce from Prince Charles and whose wife died from cancer in October.

Mishcons has now put the matter into the hands of its head of insolvency.

A source at Mishcons said today: “We expect a claim to go in against Ms Mills in the next few weeks.”

The former spouses are scheduled to face off in court next week, and sources say that neither side has come anywhere close to agreeing on a settlement. Early in the separation, Paul reportedly offered Heather £15 million, which she refused. I’m wiling to be that amount looks pretty good to her now.

The Daily Mail is reporting that Heather Mills may not be quite as 100% evil like we thought. There’s a chance she is only 97% evil – and apparently three percent either way can make a big difference. The Mail is reporting that Sir Paul McCartney has a variety of moderately serious heart ailments. He was diagnosed with a heart murmur two years ago and was put on Warfarin, a blood thinner. Warfarin has a really long list of medications you can’t take with it, and you can’t drink. But Sir Paul refused to quit, and needed to have a coronary angioplasty in September – though it’s not clear if that was the result of his refusal to quit drinking while on the Warfarin. Heather Mills’ people are claiming that many of the couples’ fights were due to her insistence that he stop drinking and take better care of himself. However the Daily Mail points out that the emergence of McCartney’s heart murmur coincided with the breakdown of his relationship, and intimates that the relationship problems caused the murmur, and not the other way around.

It is alleged that despite being told by doctors that alcohol consumption does not mix well with the anti-coagulant drug, he refused to stop drinking. That refusal is said to have led to a number of rows with his now-estranged wife. It emerged last week that Sir Paul had coronary angioplasty operation to increase blood flow to his heart in September.

A source told a U.S. newspaper: “This was a major source of problems between him and Heather Mills. He was receiving electrical shocks over the two years on his chest to help with his heart and was under strict instructions to stop drinking completely, which he didn’t do. It’s not a threatening condition, he just needs to take better care of himself.”

It was even claimed yesterday that Miss Mills postponed a hip operation in April 2006 for her husband to have heart treatment. The source told the New York Post: “He was abusing his body. She (Mills) focused on him first.”

[From the Daily Mail]

McCartney’s people aren’t agreeing with the claims and have said they think the stories were planted by Heather or her publicist. Considering everything we know about her, I have a hard time believing Heather Mills did much of anything selflessly for someone else, including her husband. I can imagine her berating and lecturing him, but that’s not exactly the most effective way to get a person to take better care of himself. If anything, it just makes them want to drink more.

It’s been a little while since we’ve slammed on Heather Mills. And it’s really not fair to let Britney hog all the crazy, much as she might like to. Heather Mills is one of those crazies that you can’t help but root against, and feel a little bit of smug satisfaction when nothing goes her way. And given the way the crazy, sanctimonious, delusional Brit behaves, I’m often left feeling pretty satisfied. Though she’s turned down multiple large settlement offers from estranged, soon-to-be ex-husband Paul McCartney, Mills may soon find herself in the poorhouse. She “mutually” parted ways with her legal team last month, after she went on a round of television shows bashing McCartney and saying she wanted to kill herself due to the way everyone treats her. She’d racked up a $4 million legal bill with her former divorce lawyers Mishcon de Reya. Heather had agreed to pay $200,000 a month towards the bill once she got her settlement, but now the legal team is in the process of writing a writ to make her pay up immediately. They’re afraid that her outlandish spending and stubborn/delusional personality will leave her with little or no settlement from Sir Paul, and that she may burn through whatever she does get on designer clothes and security guards.

But here, perhaps, is the nub of it all. For while Heather may have celebrated the festivities at her large £3.25 million country mansion, she is all too aware that the rug is coming close to being pulled from under her, while her soon-to-be ex-husband still has his £850 million fortune firmly in hand.

A writ from her former divorce lawyers Mishcon de Reya for an unpaid bill of £2 million is the tip of the iceberg. There is, say sources, an ever-growing overdraft of £1 million at the exclusive Coutts bank. She has weekly outgoings of more than £5,000, with next to no money coming in. Friends say the only way she can pay the legal bills is by selling the nine-bedroom house in East Sussex — paid for by her ex-husband so he could be close to their daughter.

What’s more, she is beginning to realize that instead of the £50 million figure it was first estimated she could get from Paul’s fortune, she will now be lucky to get £10 million. And at the rate she is spending, that will not last more than a couple of years.

[From the Daily Mail]

Apparently Heather thought that her appearance on “Dancing with the Stars” would make everyone fall in love with her, and she was counting on a financial windfall. I’m not sure how someone with such an extreme personality disorder has gotten as far in life as Heather Mills has. While she clearly has narcissistic personality disorder, I can’t help but wonder if she has her own special brand of delusional personality disorder. I know it’s not an official mental illness, but I’m pretty sure they should make it one.

Meanwhile, Heather’s plans for making money of her own have also backfired. Anticipating a rash of offers after her appearance on Dancing With The Stars, America’s version of Strictly Come Dancing, she set up five companies. But four of the businesses (I Do Care, You Care Worldwide, Raspberry Fields Productions and Beauty and the Baby) are dormant, and the fifth, Dissoi Logoi Productions, is about to be struck off the Companies House register.

“She thought she would get all these amazing deals after being on Dancing With The Stars,” said her friend. “She thought she would be invited onto Oprah and would be filling in for Larry King (the TV interviewer). She set up all these companies in the belief that she would be hugely popular. But it all came to nothing. While people might have admired her dancing, as a personality, she is not a ratings winner.”

[From the Daily Mail]

What will it take for Heather Mills to realize that she’s the psycho, not everyone else? Something tells me that losing her home will just further enhance her victimhood. Heather is now representing herself during her complex legal trial. If anything could assure her that she’d end up with a stack of old newspapers and some chicken eggs for a settlement, it’s Crazy representing herself. If things go as hoped, pretty soon we’ll see her auctioning that leg on eBay.

Cindy Adams really does a number on Heather Mills in today’s New York Post. Not that it’s particularly hard to go off on Heather Mills – she practically hands you the insults. It’s much more challenging not to make fun of her. Does that mean I’m going to take the high road? Not at all. The high road isn’t any fun. Plus Heather Mills has the self-awareness of a cow, and really needs to be brought down a peg. Now considering that she’s the most hated woman in the U.K. and still seems to have no idea why that is, I’m pretty sure I won’t be the one that finally gets through to her. But maybe Cindy Adams will.

Heather has decided to write a book, and Cindy Adams received a copy of the rough draft. She didn’t say who sent it, but I can only assume it was someone on Mills’ team who somehow thought it would help. Sadly pretty much everything Heather does thinking it will help only hurts her more. The book is titled, “The Unsinkable Heather Mills.” Doesn’t that already make you want to punch her in the face? I mean you probably already wanted to punch her in the face, but doesn’t that make you want to do it twice?

From the rough draft in my hands, its 17 chapters include headings like “Hitting the Floor,” “The Streets of London,” “In Front of the Cameras,” “The Real Heather Mills,” “Chris Versus Paul,” “Playing Hardball.” Opening chapter “Hitting the Stars” reports she did “Dancing With the Stars” to show how this “scandalous” Brit looked “bloody good” and could “blot out all the hateful sneering faces. . . . She had flown to America to get past the ugly tabloid headlines back home that said ‘Heather the hooker’ and ‘Bisexual Heather sold body to Arabs.’ ”

Next, her boyfriend Peter overdoses on heroin. She herself sleeps on the streets. She worked for a jeweler. She stole from the jeweler. She’s arrested. Then come paragraphs on the sex trade, naked photos, endless lying, pleasuring Arabs, being kept. Then comes her craze for status, socializing with her betters, “wanting that power for herself” and her “hope to find a rich and powerful man of her own.”

Next we get her marriage and “the speed at which Heather ended the marriage” because she found another guy. Then another guy. And another. And so on until The Tragic Accident. The narrative then osmoses into her realizing the key to power and, thus, selling that horrifying story of losing her leg for the highest newspaper bid. It included this woman Doing It in her hospital bed. It was about losing a leg but the sex being as incredible as ever. Resolved to use this newfound power, she said, “And I’ll flirt with anyone.”

[From the New York Post]

Heather’s recounting of her history sounds thoroughly self-indulgent, just like everything else about her. This woman just cannot grasp the fact that people don’t care about her. You could argue that they do, because she’s still getting press, but I think the reason she gets it is that people are fascinated that someone could be so dense. Nothing the woman could say would make anyone feel sorry for her. And that seems to be what she wants – not understanding, or even to be liked, so much as pitied.

Fast-forward. She became noticed. Did TV. Modeled. Made some money. Entertained a chorus line of lovers. In ‘99 came “The Pride of Britain Awards” to those who’d showed bravery. She made a speech.

The book says she admits to being “bossy.” Convinced Paul “needed a strong woman to keep him on his toes,” we are treated to how she instructed Sir Paul The Beatle McCartney in how to sing a song. Heather began to take over. In interviews, she’d do the talking. They’d leave the studios being irritable. At each other’s throats.

[From the New York Post]

The best quote from the whole article is actually from Heather’s book. There’s no context given, but I’m assuming it was said in a self-pitying manner.

Page 209 tells us the U.K.’s David Letterman, talk-show host Jonathan Ross, has actually said, “Heather is a f - - -ing liar. I wouldn’t be surprised if we found out she’s actually got two legs.”

[From the New York Post]

That’s brilliant. From now on we’re calling her Heather “two legs” Mills. That quote is the greatest thing I’ve heard all month.

Heather Mills has been offered a lot of advice, not much of which she seems to be taking. I’m thinking about turning her journey of divorce into a book and titling it “How To F**k Up Your Divorce and Get Nothing, Just Like You Deserve You Crazy One-Legged Bitch”. Now, it may seem harsh to make a rude comment on someone’s disability, but she claims her husband did it…

“There are other recordings Heather says prove Paul referred to her as a ‘one-legged bitch,’” says a friend of Mills’. “She’s hoping this shows people what she’s had to put up with, and will let the public make up their own mind about who was to blame for their split.”

“Heather insists these tape recordings are crucial for her future. She’s been branded a liar so many times, and has a massive point to prove,” another source says.

TransWorldNews

She was making recordings of her life with Paul McCartney in anticipation of their divorce, which somehow I doubt were to store as memories but rather to use as leverage in their settlement. These might prove she’s not a liar, but it doesn’t seem to say anything good about her character.

According to reports in the New York Daily News, Paul McCartney will now only be dating women of means. Since McCartney is meant to be worth over a billion dollars, maybe the queen would be a woman of appropriate substance? Rumoured flame Nancy Shevell is independently wealthy, but perhaps a more sensible idea would be to have an iron-clad pre-nuptial agreement.

Note by Celebitchy: I think Heather Mills either started a new psychiatric drug or recently went off the meds she was on. She is seriously unhinged, and she may be well groomed but she’s not sane. It’s not even funny anymore.

Here she is in March campaigning for PETA to save the mother pigs and their piglets from farrowing crates, which are small metal enclosures that mother pigs are put in after they give birth. They are supposed to prevent the mother from crushing the piglets, which would not happen if the pigs were given adequate space, so they’re not needed in non-factory conditions and seem particularly cruel. In close conditions, though, they do prevent piglet death. I was going to make fun of her for this, but then I actually read about it and felt sorry for the pigs. If I keep doing research like this I’m going to end up a vegetarian, which isn’t a bad thing, as long as I don’t get all smug like Heather.

Thanks to PRPhotos for these pictures.

Who would have thought that Heather Mills going batshit crazy and telling the press she was considering suicide if they weren’t nicer to her could possibly backfire on her? The self-righteous nutbag - who seems to feel she can say whatever she wants in order to get whatever she wants – has possibly put her foot in her own mouth for the last time. Sir Paul is said to be very concerned for the safety of Beatrice, their four-year-old daughter. Mills claims that there are people who want to kill her, and that Beatrice is in danger too. It seems most likely that Beatrice’s biggest threat is her manipulative, narcissistic mother, who seems just histrionic enough to put her own child’s life in danger.

Paul McCartney has revealed that he wants custody of his & Heather Mills’ four-year-old daughter Beatrice -following her recent outbursts on US & UK television. According to Britain’s News of The World newspaper, Paul, 65 has already consulted his legal team, a close friend of the star said: “Paul fears Heather’s lost the plot and needs help. He’s deeply worried. She claimed to the world that her life’s at risk. If that’s true, so is Bea’s and she must be with her dad.” In public Paul McCartney dismisses this week’s frenzy of abusive attacks by estranged wife Heather - but, behind closed doors, private he is distraught and fears she will hound him to his grave.

After an awkward face-to-face confrontation between the embattled couple on Friday, angry Paul McCartney allegedly asked an aide: “Is Heather trying to kill me?” A close friend of Paul’s said: “Paul’s main concern is Bea’s safety and well-being. Going for full custody is a last resort but he’s really scared for his child. He doesn’t feel he’s got a choice now. And if Heather’s life is at risk, then so is Bea’s. Paul feels he just can’t take the risk anymore and wants to know that his daughter is safe and well—and that means being with him. Paul did plead with Heather to consider Bea before she went on these TV shows, but she ignored him. Now he’s deeply concerned their daughter is growing more aware of the public war between them.”

[From ShowbizSpy]

The vengeful, mean-spirited part of me wants Heather Mills to lose custody of Beatrice just to teach her that you don’t go around on national television saying you’re going to kill yourself because the press isn’t nice to you. The more logical part of me wants Heather Mills to lose custody of Beatrice because any mother who would do that could very likely be a threat to her child’s safety. If those are the kinds of things she says on television, can you imagine what she probably says to her daughter at home? “You know why mummy has only one leg? Because daddy didn’t love her enough.” “You know why all those photographers are outside screaming at mummy? Because you didn’t eat your vegetables.” “You know why mummy cries herself to sleep every night? Because you love daddy more than her.” Yeah, I’m sure this kid will end up fine.

Here’s a clip from her interview - the actual discussion is over 15 minutes long.

Paul McCartney isn’t sitting at home brooding over his high-profile divorce with batshit crazy Heather Mills. Heather is trying to ratchet up the crazy, squawking new allegations that Paul hasn’t defended her to the press and claiming to have a tape of Paul admitting to have hit his former beloved wife, Linda. Paul is sending Heather the message that he’s above all that and won’t let what people say about him interfere with his life. He has been spotted on all sorts of romantic dates and outings with his married American neighbor from the Hamptons, Nancy Shevell, 47:

In new photos published this week in Britain (and splashed across the New York papers Wednesday morning), McCartney, 65, is pictured kissing Nancy Shevell, an American whom the papers described as a new love interest. The photos show the couple walking along a windswept beach, sharing a coffee break and deep in discussion on a sidewalk in the Hamptons, where both Shevell and McCartney have mansions.

A source tells PEOPLE: “They have known each other for a while. They are just friends.”

Shevell, who’s separated from her husband, is a 47-year-old mother of one and a vice president at the New England Motor Freight, Inc. Earlier in the week, The Sun published a photo of McCartney leaving Top Drawer Lingerie shop in East Hampton last Saturday, with his hood up and clutching a bag.

[From People.com]

Belying the “just friends” statement, Paul was photographed kissing Shevell and the two were shacked up in a London hotel together for two days while he was attending a divorce hearing. Her lawyer husband has also gone to the trouble of releasing a statement to let everyone know that they’re legally separated and that his wife isn’t officially cheating:

Nancy, 47, confirmed the separation from her wealthy lawyer husband Bruce Blakeman, 52, following the emergence of reports of her dates with the former Beatle including one liaison at a London hotel on the day of his High Court divorce hearing.

Previously known as Nancy Shevell Blakeman, she recently dropped her husband’s name and both have been seen without wedding rings.

Nancy, who is vice president of her wealthy family’s firm and a top New York City transport official, wed Mr Blakeman in 1984. The pair have a teenage son Arlen.
Mr Blakeman — a commissioner of the New York Port Authority and a partner in a top Big Apple law firm — also yesterday confirmed that he and Nancy had split.
He said: “My wife and I are legally separated at the moment.” He added in a statement: “The separation is amicable and mutual.”

[From The Daily Mail via Gossip Rocks]

Paul was most recently briefly linked to Renee Zellweger and was said to be in a relationship post-divorce with Guinness beer heiress Sabrina Guinness. Paul’s ex, Heather Mills, was said to be banging her much-younger personal trainer, but considering how off the rails she’s been she probably hasn’t taken her medication or been laid in quite a while. Not that getting laid is necessary for your sanity, just that no one wants to get with a woman who seems capable of pulling a Lorena Bobbitt for a minor perceived offense.

Here are pictures of new paparazzi target Nancy Shevell. She has probably been followed and photographed more in the past two days than she has her entire life, because just about all the photo agencies have pictures of her. She is shown out yesterday in NY, thanks to Splash News. Paul and Nancy are also shown on 7/4/07 outside a photography exhibit, so it seems like they’ve been enjoying each other’s company all summer. Thanks to PRPhotos for those images. Thanks to reader Alison for letting me know that those pictures were of Paul with his daughter, Mary. They have been removed.

It appears that Paul McCartney and Heather Mills have failed to settle their divorce, the divorce that looks set to be the most expensive in British history.

“It is finished. There are no more talks planned,” a source said.

“The whole thing broke down without agreement. A trial date has been set for February and that is where we are heading.”

The source added: “Obviously there were other factors but confidentiality is one of the big problems.”

Miss Mills, 39, is believed to be keen to have the ability to write a book and appear on American chat shows, should she choose. She has already hosted the Larry King Live programme in the presenter’s absence and appeared in the US equivalent of Strictly Come Dancing.

It has been claimed that Sir Paul, 65, had offered his estranged wife £50 million of his £825m fortune if she agreed to remain silent on their marriage. But she was willing to accept as much as £15m less in return for retaining her right to speak.

A friend of the former model said: “Heather has always said that she wouldn’t bow to a confidentiality clause because if people were to attack her in public she would want the right to defend herself.”

Telegraph

Really? The right to defend herself? Not the right to sell her story for cash and profit from it?

Macca is said to want things to be kept private, and will continue to try and settle his divorce before the February court hearing. Friends of the Beatle say that he and Heather are close to an agreement.

Paul isn’t keeping quiet about his professional life, giving an interview (with Pete Doherty, who was let out of rehab for the day) and discussing rumours that John Lennon was gay.

The funny thing is when later the rumour came out that John was gay, I said: ‘I don’t think so.’ I mean, I don’t know what he did when he went to New York, but certainly not in any of my experiences. We used to sleep together, top and tail it, you know. I always used to say: ‘Come on, I would have spotted something here.’ But what I spotted was completely the opposite. It was just chicks, chicks, chicks.

Observer

With all the gay talk going around Paul had to add he didn’t really want to be a bassist in the Beatles, and being in a band “was to get girls, basically.” Given the nasty bit of work he’s currently divorcing, that seemed to work for him didn’t it?

Picture note by Celebitchy: Sir Paul McCartney is shown on 10/12/07 after having breakfast after court. Thanks to WENN.