Do you remember Heather Mills?

For those wondering what she does now (I've not read the full 8 pages, apologies if this has been covered but so far I've seen answers that make it sound like she just has a cafe or two). I'm told that she owns the factories that produce most of the supermarket own brand vegan cheeses and some 'vegan meat' products. She also has her own brand called V-bites. I believe she has a vegan cafe in Brighton too. She has tried to support vegan businesses in the North East. I met her not long ago, she said she wants to use her food truck to pitch up and serve free food to those in need.

So she's a pretty busy person by all accounts and it seems her heart is in the right place.

[quote AfterSchoolWorry]@YokoOnosHat

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@AfterSchoolWorry well I didn’t actually make that groundbreaking documentary.

Are you referring to the very poorly done Yoko?

@YokoOnosHat

That video contains blackface.

I saw HM in Waitrose once and she'd just picked up a magazine with herself on the cover and then called what seemed to be her agent complaining about the photo.

She sounded horrible, very pushy and unpleasant. Not what I'd have expected at all. The photo was absolutely fine she was awful

I agree House, it’s a lesson to us all.

I tell dh not to “do a Paul McCartney” if/when I die. He knows this to mean do not rush into another marriage and listen to our adult DDs if they do not get on with her.

He just really really loved Linda didn't he. I feel that marrying HM was in part fuelled by grief. He thought they were similar. But Heather turned out to not be a chilled out, Mother Nature stoner like lovely Linda.

I agree that marrying someone with money shouldn’t entitle you to half, I think marriage is financial suicide for anyone with assets.

£24 million isn't nothing. Tbf to PM, he earned his millions and HM did not - marrying a billionaire shouldn't automatically entitle you to half of that wealth if it was made before you came onto the scene and did nothing to contribute or support during the acquisition of that money.
A child can live a great lifestyle on £24 million, plus all school fees paid. Beatrice was hardly disadvantaged

I met her and spent a few hours with her as her minder at a charity event just after she was announced as Paul's girlfriend.
I thought she was very personable.
However I think she was proven to be a bit of a fantasist and her relationship with Paul was pretty tempestuous- lots of rowing and throwing rings out of windows.
There were a lot of yachting rumours too which I think Paul managed to squash.
She said he physically and emotionally abused her iiirc.

@GreenClock so does the fact that most widows do not tend to remarry speak out about their view of marriage?

Sorry, julieca, but we clearly live on different planets.

I’m sure Beatrice has enjoyed a fantastic childhood. I expect the 24 million covered it.

he is a billionaire, £24 million is pocket change.
If he'd have had a prenuptial agreement she might have gotten £24,000.
Is DD set to inherit, I'd assume he pays maintenance for his DD

I was thinking about her the other day because the video for A Wonderful Christmas Time was on TV, with Paul and Linda fooling around and having fun, and I was trying to remember how long it was since Linda died and he met Heather. It always seemed to me that he was desperate to remarry having been so happily and stably married before. I’ve known a few widowers move on with what seems like indecent haste, but it’s really driven by their positivity about the institution of marriage which actually says a lot about the deceased wife.

On another (shallow) note, F Shackleton looks quite hot with wet hair

@EmeraldShamrock he is a billionaire, £24 million is pocket change.

And yes Paul sounds tight here.
www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-176645/Stellas-school-days.html

24 million, Wow.
He was a fool in love not protecting himself.

@EYProvider because it is being argued that it was fine to give Heather Mills a lower divorce settlement because his own family lived simply.
I think Paul was tight and simply wanted to protect as much of his money as possible. I don't think it was anything to do with his young daughter or what she needed.

What point are you making, julieca, and why is the size of Paul McCartney’s house so important to you?

The papers very much witch hunt certain women today, they may not use foul language.
My first thoughts opening this thread was the incident with the ring getting fired out of a hotel room.
High profile relationships aren't worth the hassle.

I remember Heather Mills because she went on those TV shows despite having a disability. I thought she was brave to take part, but amazing to do so well.
I have never met her or Paul McCartney so cannot comment on things I know nothing about.
I hope if she reads this awful thread it will not upset her too much

I remember not liking her at all but I'd no sympathy for Paul McCartney, HM was decades younger and I thought if he's stupid enough to believe she loves him for him................ then he's just making an ass of himself. Which he did. But seems all ok now.

Paul bought a 3 bedroom house on a farm to reduce his tax bill.

www.beatlesbible.com/1966/06/17/paul-mccartney-purchases-high-park-farm-kintyre-scotland/

It was Linda that suggested doing it up, and from then he went on to buy more land and the much larger house on the estate.

There is nothing wrong with buying that land and houses, but you seem to be buying into the myth that they lived in a ramshackle cottage for years and brought up the family there. That is not true. All big celebrities have myths created about them by their PR and the media. This is a fairly innocuous one, but it is a myth.

No one had the right to expect anything of him in that moment, julieca. We don’t tell other people how to experience or express grief, no matter how famous they are or how well we think we know them. His grief was his - it was a private thing. The reporter had no right to intrude on it, and you have no right to judge. It’s really really nasty.

And his house in Scotland might be a 7360 acre estate now, but it was a two bedroom shack when he moved into it with no running water.

Anyway, it’s clear that your values are very different to mine, and it would seem, Paul’s.

@EYProvider I wouldn't expect him to break down. But just a very sad, or devastating one-word answer would have been fine.
I don't think John seems a very nice person either.