BS: Heather Mills. A gold digger or wife ?

Subject: BS: Heather Mills. A gold digger or wife ?
From: GUEST,Beatles fan
Date: 17 Jun 06 - 04:23 PM

What is the view of members regarding Heather Mills ?
Paul is said to be heart broken at the split and now the papers are saying she was on the game and tomorrow are running the story.
The pictures of her nude modelling are now all over the net.
Did she see him as an investment ?
Happy birthday Sir Paul

Subject: RE: BS: Heather Mills. A gold digger or wife ?
From: Ebbie
Date: 17 Jun 06 - 04:29 PM

Will the view(s) of the members come any closer to the truth?

Subject: RE: BS: Heather Mills. A gold digger or wife ?
From: Peace
Date: 17 Jun 06 - 04:30 PM

Gossip 101.

Subject: RE: BS: Heather Mills. A gold digger or wife ?
From: GUEST,Martin
Date: 17 Jun 06 - 04:32 PM

Gold digger. He loved Linda and never got over her loss. Saw the photo's on the net of Heather, Great pair.

Subject: RE: BS: Heather Mills. A gold digger or wife ?
From: Raedwulf
Date: 17 Jun 06 - 04:33 PM

Who cares?

McCartney barely qualifies as a musician, & Mills... :-/

Subject: RE: BS: Heather Mills. A gold digger or wife ?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 17 Jun 06 - 04:38 PM

I think they were both looking for something, and neither of them found it, it's sad really, and not a fit subject for our speculation.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Heather Mills. A gold digger or wife ?
From: GUEST,Wesley S
Date: 17 Jun 06 - 04:40 PM

None of our damn business either way. Try People Magaine or the National Enquirer.

Subject: RE: BS: Heather Mills. A gold digger or wife ?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 17 Jun 06 - 05:57 PM

What is the view of members regarding Heather Mills ?

Why? What's it got to do with us?

Subject: RE: BS: Heather Mills. A gold digger or wife ?
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Jun 06 - 06:10 PM

Christ, when did anything ever stop members before !

Subject: RE: BS: Heather Mills. A gold digger or wife ?
From: Peace
Date: 17 Jun 06 - 06:28 PM

Think of the chastity belt.

Subject: RE: BS: Heather Mills. A gold digger or wife ?
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Jun 06 - 06:35 PM

Is that like the Bible Belt or the seat belt?

This is one of those things about which I don't give a shit. I don't know either of them, never met them, and probably never will.

Subject: RE: BS: Heather Mills. A gold digger or wife ?
From: GUEST,Sandra
Date: 17 Jun 06 - 06:40 PM

She had a nasty, tough life. She does not appear to have a compassionate countenance but she did charity work. Some people are good to the public but not in private. This is going to be very expensive for Paul.
I really hope she can build a life for herself after this. With the settlement and that bust I think she will do okay.

Go girl go, nice to see an older man cleaned out again !

Subject: RE: BS: Heather Mills. A gold digger or wife ?
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Jun 06 - 06:43 PM

Is that you Ann? There's a thread about you. Fancy you coming to Mudcat.

Subject: RE: BS: Heather Mills. A gold digger or wife ?
From: SussexCarole
Date: 17 Jun 06 - 07:05 PM

There's always two sides to every story! Spectators usually have the third side..........

Subject: RE: BS: Heather Mills. A gold digger or wife ?
From: Morticia
Date: 17 Jun 06 - 07:27 PM

How could we possibly know the ins and outs and how could it possibly be our business? Surely we're a bit better than this News of the World type speculation?

Subject: RE: BS: Heather Mills. A gold digger or wife ?
From: John O'L
Date: 17 Jun 06 - 08:04 PM

Well I had never heard of Heather Mills until that other thread came along. I didn't even know Linda was dead. (She is dead, isn't she? It was Linda wasn't it?)
Nevertheless, I have very strong opinions about gold-diggers and pirates with wooden legs and I don't mind shooting my mouth off about it either.
Does she have a parrot on her shoulder?

Subject: RE: BS: Heather Mills. A gold digger or wife ?
From: Kaleea
Date: 18 Jun 06 - 02:09 AM

Having never met Heather or Sir Paul, I would not have any knowledge of what either of them dig.

Subject: RE: BS: Heather Mills. A gold digger or wife ?
From: alanabit
Date: 18 Jun 06 - 03:16 AM

Well Beatles fan, are we going to start discussing your marital affairs on the site here?

Subject: RE: BS: Heather Mills. A gold digger or wife ?
From: GUEST,smiler
Date: 18 Jun 06 - 03:43 AM

That lady is a living leg-end

Subject: RE: BS: Heather Mills. A gold digger or wife ?
From: breezy
Date: 18 Jun 06 - 04:34 AM

during a recent interview with a journalist Sir Paul Mccartknee was asked if he would ever go down on one knee again.

His reply was,


'I would still prefer it if you called her Heather'


yes? No? dont care?


Rubber soul, rubber Paul, ? caught on the bounce?

Subject: RE: BS: Heather Mills. A gold digger or wife ?
From: GUEST,ifor
Date: 18 Jun 06 - 08:30 AM

I think amidst all the mud slinging at Heather Mills McCartney we should remember the excellent humanitarian work she has done to fund landmine clearing schemes.Far more worthy of comment than some dodgy photos from 20 years ago.
ifor

Subject: RE: BS: Heather Mills. A gold digger or wife ?
From: Mooh
Date: 18 Jun 06 - 08:56 AM

Having met someone who has met someone who knows Sir Paul, and maybe even met someone who knows Sir Paul, I am practically an authority on this subject...

My best guess is that Sir Paul considered the risks, accepted them, and at 64 can say he's had something most younger men can only dream of. He can live more cheaply, and still has earning potential, she joins the army of folks who have done the Beatles, and the sun will rise in the east.

Move along people, there's nothing to see here.

I know a band looking for a bass player, wonder if he's interested...

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: Heather Mills. A gold digger or wife ?
From: DMcG
Date: 18 Jun 06 - 08:57 AM

Loathe though I am to quote Andrew LLoyd Webber as an authority on such things, this section from Evita bears thinking about:

There is no-one, no-one at all
Never has been and never will be a lover
Male or female
Who hasn't an eye on
In fact they rely on
Tricks they can try on
Their partner
They're hoping their lover will help them or keep them
Support them, promote them
Don't blame them
You're the same

Subject: RE: BS: Heather Mills. A gold digger or wife ?
From: The PA
Date: 18 Jun 06 - 09:27 AM

That's my joke Breezy - get yer own.

Subject: RE: BS: Heather Mills. A gold digger or wife ?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 18 Jun 06 - 11:07 AM

Heather Mills........never trust someone who sounds like a carpet warehouse.

Subject: RE: BS: Heather Mills. A gold digger or wife ?
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Jun 06 - 11:59 AM

If people have the time to start this thread, read it or contribute to it, one that pries into another's private life, they've not enough going on in their own life. Now spot the irony in that sentence.

Subject: RE: BS: Heather Mills. A gold digger or wife ?
From: Peace
Date: 18 Jun 06 - 12:17 PM

The grenade exploded beside him and now his leg is very irony.

Subject: RE: BS: Heather Mills. A gold digger or wife ?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 18 Jun 06 - 12:28 PM

they're just TOO smart for us, these guests......they appreciate irony, they know that we're all intrusive small minded hypocrites, and still they offer us words of friendly (though somewhat condescending) advice.......

get back in the knife drawer!

Subject: RE: BS: Heather Mills. A gold digger or wife ?
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Jun 06 - 01:22 PM

Wasn't mean to be condescending, dear, just truthful.

Subject: RE: BS: Heather Mills. A gold digger or wife ?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 18 Jun 06 - 03:37 PM

Having frankly not heard of "Heather Mills" before (I have to stop and think to remember who "Sir Paul" is) I was mostly curious as to why this "story" should be so obviously interesting to 'catters. The evidence here is that everyone has an opinion, but few offer anything to support one.

After a bit of browsing, I conclude that having an opinion in this matter is perhaps more demeaning to the opinion holders than to the objects of judgement; but then that's show-biz, I guess.

Observations:

Sir Paul and Heather have been married for quite some time, and seem to have been mostly happy. They appear to have, and have had, mutual interests and mutual respect for each other. They have been "living apart" for at least a couple of months, and have only within the last day or two announced publicly that a divorce is planned.

Both have been subjected to apparently continual attacks by the sleaze news media, although probably Heather has been more subject to this than Sir Paul.

(A recent commentary is at The Independent. As I'm not familiar with the various UK news media, I can only assume that this is a legitimate one, but my observations support the premise stated.)

All of the so-called "porn" that I found appears to come from the same source, and IMO has been "shopped" to create a "lurid" appearance of the photos. (If this is the best print quality the "Sun" can do they should stick to comic books.) A few samples are "restorable" to near "porn movie quality" although most of the highlights are completely blown out, and colors have been changed, apparently to deliberately make them ugly. (Is this evidence for the credibility of the link above?)

While what I get from Google may be affected by the Google server I use, and those in the UK may get different results, the examples shown are really pretty "soft" stuff, even for the time when these were reportedly made. There is no readily accessible web info on what the real nature of the publications were, so that probably appears only in the Sun. So far as I can tell, this is the kind of stuff that is likely to be found in the portfolio of many young models; and it's unlikely, though not impossible, that it would be a surprise to Sir Paul. He seems able to live with it, so I guess I can let him.

It is of some interest that the only sites Google returned the "porn" from were Dutch, Spanish, and one other language I couldn't identify accurately. It's possible that this is due only to different libel and "content" standards in those countries, but UK public relations might wonder why a "select few" countries are so negatively obsessed with UK "royalty."

I found no pictures of Heather in recent UK "news" in which she was smiling. The result is that from those sources alone one might get the impression of a rather "plain old crone." Elsewhere, recent photos show a very attractive young woman.

There are few comprehensive biographies for Heather (that I found) although there are numerous ones giving emphasis to particular of her accomplishments. The most complete(?) that I found was at AskMen. This isn't a site I'm familiar with, but the information does agree with what's given in bits and snatches elsewhere. (There are two additional linked pages.)

On the surface, the charge that she's a "gold-digger" seem contradicted by her offer to sign a pre-nup. While Sir Paul quite obviously has contributed to her charitable activities, that's called spousal involvement, and for the most part the interest appears to have been shared and mutual. (Sort of like the coincidental appearance almost immediately after Bill married Melissa of the 42G$ endowment?)

As "prominent public persons" Sir Paul and Heather are "interesting," but I'm afraid that to me it's only a casual interest. I see two attractive, capable, and accomplished persons facing a personal decision about what they want to do next. I'm sure they'll reach a decision without my help, and I trust they'll live happily ever after - together or apart - as they both seem capable of handling their own lives.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Heather Mills. A gold digger or wife ?
From: The PA
Date: 19 Jun 06 - 03:48 AM

Gold digger or wife? Well I suppose time will tell.

If she accepts a reasonable financial settlement which reflects the time they were actually married and that she is the mother of his child, and assuming she is young enough and fit enough to go and earn her own living, then I suppose wife, or ex-wife.

However, should she choose to sit on her backside doing nothing for the rest of her days and damand the x-number of millions per year she may think she's entitled to for simply being the ex-wife of a very wealthy man, albeit for a rather short time, then I have to say gold digger - simple.

Hey Heather, join the real world, get a childminder - get a job.

Subject: RE: BS: Heather Mills. A gold digger or wife ?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 19 Jun 06 - 10:46 AM

Give the poor woman a break. I don't even watch him on Parkinson these days. Perhapd he had irritating habits

Subject: RE: BS: Heather Mills. A gold digger or wife ?
From: GUEST,skipy
Date: 20 Jun 06 - 06:51 AM

I'm stumped.

Subject: RE: BS: Heather Mills. A gold digger or wife ?
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Jun 06 - 03:58 PM

With the lawyers Sir Paul can get, she won't have a leg to stand on.

Subject: RE: BS: Heather Mills. A gold digger or wife ?
From: The PA
Date: 21 Jun 06 - 11:53 AM

I heard that not long after they were married Sir Paul bought Heather a plane ............. and a razor for the other leg.


Yeh I know its bad, just couldn't resist it!

Subject: RE: BS: Heather Mills. A gold digger or wife ?
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Jun 06 - 01:10 PM

She all ready has one foot in the grave.