Heather Mills: March 2007 Archives
Heather Mills probably has the least 'star power' of any contestant on this season's Dancing with the Stars on ABC, but now in its second week Mills may be the biggest star on the reality show.
Mills is a 39-year old model most known for her marriage and nasty separation from former Beatle, Paul McCartney.
The judges, however, seem to be impressed with her. She seems to be shocking the media by dancing so well despite the fact that she only has one real leg. The other prosthetic. She even managed to do a back flip that really seemed to wow everyone.
The big question is, how much play will the judges and the media have in the voting? Mills pleaded with viewers to keep her around.
"A year ago there's no way I would ever have believed I'd be dancing now, so I am enjoying every second of it. I really, really hope I'm not going to be the first to go," Heather said on the show.
After two weeks of dancing, the judges have ranked Mills and her partner Jonathan Roberts in fifth place.
ABC will be filled with Dancing with the Stars programming tonight. At 8pm EST, they will recap last night show followed by the results show at 9pm.
Heather Mills managed not to 'break a leg' on the first episode of ABC's Dancing with the Stars.
The former model's debut on the show was highly anticipated mainly because she has dominated headlines with her high profile divorce from Paul McCartney. Oh, and because she only has one leg.
Mills is dancing on prosthetic leg, and she carries herself on that wooden knob well! Viewers get to vote to decide whether Heather stays or goes.
The UK's version of 911 is probably glad that Heather Mills is heading for the US to compete in ABC's Dancing with the Stars.
Evidently the former model and estranged wife of Paul McCartney is burning up their emergency call system claiming that "huge powers” are set to destroy her amid her bitter divorce battle. Now officials are asking her to stop.
"There are huge powers that create these things for reasons of their own. There is a huge agenda about trying to destroy me and put me down. I have a daughter to protect and I don't want to speak badly about any of the parties involved," she told the BBC news.
Reuters is reporting that Chief Superintendent Kevin Moore, of Brighton and Hove Police where Mills spends most of her time, says there was a risk that officers may take her calls less seriously if she contacted them as much as she has been.
"We are having to spend a disproportionate amount of time on one particular person," he said in reported remarks that were confirmed by a spokeswoman for the force.
"We are duty-bound to respond, but clearly people who make lots of calls to the police run the risk of being treated as the little boy who cried wolf," she added.
"Officers who have attended previously to find there have been no grounds might not take any claims seriously, and that's the danger we face."
Hold on to your leg Heather, there are rules against that in America.
Mills also blames the "Beatle nutters" for what seems to be paranoia.
"The reason people have such extreme feelings about me is because I speak out and I speak the truth and they don't like it. We have a tiny percentage of Beatle nutters who did the same with Linda, did the same with Yoko, did the same with anybody. But I have just had so much support. If I go out for a dance or a drink or to a restaurant, I just get people coming up all the time saying 'We want to help you - you ignore them',” she claims.
ABC debuts its latest installment of Dancing with the Stars on Monday.
Online gamblers are trying to cash in on the possibility that Heather Mills might loose her prosthetic leg while participating in ABC's Dancing with the Stars later this month.
The website www.bodog.com opened bets on whether her fake leg would fly off during a dance routine making "no" a heavy favorite.
The site has even set some ground rules, her leg "must fall off, not be purposely taken off, during a dance routine for all Yes wagers to be graded a win."
Mills is firing back saying the leg will stay put, and she has an extra just in case!
Mills, who is divorcing former Beatle Paul McCartney, says she is appearing on the show for charity, not to gain public sympathy.
Dancing with the Stars isn't the only thing on Heather Mills' mind. The former model claims she needs $19,000 a day "just to get by," and she's expecting it in the form of alimony from her estranged husband Sir Paul McCartney.
McCartney says he isn't worth "far less" than the $2 billion that everyone thinks he has. However, it looks like he and Mills have reached a deal at $71 million.
The couple separated in May of last year after being married for four years and began divorce proceedings in July. The divorce proceedings took a particularly nasty turn when Mills claimed that McCartney had been violent towards her during the four year marriage.
Meanwhile an online gambling service is taking bets on whether or not Mills will loose her artificial leg on Dancing with the Stars set to debut on March 19.
