Heather Mills
- Profession: Gold digger
- Place/Date of Birth: Aldershot, Hampshire, 12 January 2021
- Assiociated with: Paul McCartney
With a farewell speech tucked into the top of her sparkly costume, she went on to the dance floor prepared.
"We knew we were going out," said Sir Paul McCartney’s estranged wife when she learned her fate. "We were in the bottom two last week. We’re not surprised."
Heather thanked her dance partner, Jonathan Roberts, as well as the show’s orchestra, makeup artists, costume designers and fans.
She said her participation "raised a fortune for our charity, and hundreds of thousands of animals’ lives will be saved".
Heather donated her performance fee to an animal-welfare charity.
She was the first contestant with an artificial limb to compete on the ABC dance-off.
Her performance of the paso doble impressed the judges, with one saying Heather had "great passion and fire".
But it failed to dazzle fans, whose votes are combined with judges’ scores to determine which couple will be eliminated each week.
Yesterday’s results show also included an appearance by Joss Stone, who performed Super Duper Love and "Tell Me About It.
Members of the Dreamgirls cast performed Steppin’ To The Bad Side, a song and dance number from the film.
All seven couples also performed a group routine, a swing dance to Stray Cats song Rock This Town.
Paulina Porizkova, Shandi Finnessey, Leeza Gibbons and Clyde Drexler have already been eliminated. The remaining celebrity dancers are Billy Ray Cyrus, Ian Ziering, Joey Fatone, Laila Ali, John Ratzenberger and Apolo Anton Ohno.
Heather wins rave reviews - April 12 2007
Heather Mills is continuing to wow the judges on US TV show Dancing With The Stars - they’ve now declared her a "Rolls-Royce" of the dancefloor.
The former model’s waltz went down a storm with the panel, with judge Bruno Tonioli gushing: "You continue to amaze me. You look like a Rolls-Royce when dancing."
The 39-year-old had admitted she had her reservations about the romantic dance, but she and partner Jonathan Roberts scored an impressive 23 out of 30, reports the Daily Mirror.
"It’s very hard to do a love story with someone you are not in love with. I just hope I can keep a straight face," she said.
Heather, who is currently divorcing from Sir Paul McCartney, has won rave reviews since she stepping out for her first dance on the reality TV show, and has been racking up the fans as fast as she’s been notching up compliments.
She has said she’s been surprised by the good reaction to her participation on the show.
"The thing that has surprised me the most is the positive reaction. I’m touching people I didn’t expect to touch," she told USA Today.
Heather in TV film? - April 10 2007
Film bosses are apparently desperate to spill the beans on the life of Heather Mills in a sensational TV movie.
According to the Daily Star, as interest in the model increases with her US stint on reality show Dancing With The Stars, TV execs are convinced it would be a hit across the globe.
They are keen to tempt the 39-year-old former model to get onboard and lift the lid on her past - including details of losing her leg, her high-profile marriage and life before she met Sir Paul McCartney.
Producers are planning to ask her for her home-made videos so people can get a real insight into her troubled past - and access to the video diaries she has made since her split with the former Beatle last year.
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Heather Mills has definitely got one hell of a story, she was born in 1968, her mother left the family home when she nine, leaving Heather to care for her siblings under the watchful eye of an abusive father. Heather ran away from home at thirteen and found herself homeless, living under Waterloo arches for four months.
She was eventually "discovered" and started modelling, it wasn’t long after that at the age of 22, that she moved to Northern Yugoslavia, now Slovenia, for a holiday and eventually ended up moving there to build a new life and become a ski instructor. Whilst out there she witnessed the outbreak of civil war and the effect it had on many of her friends. On her return to England she set up a refugee crisis centre, funded by the modelling work that she was still doing, she continued her charity work over the next two years when tragedy struck, on a visit to the UK.
In August 1993, Heather was involved in a road accident with a police motorcycle. Her injuries included crushed ribs, a punctured lung, and multiple fractures of the pelvis and the loss of her left leg below the knee. Realising her modelling career would now possibly be over, she summoned the press into her hospital room and sold her story.
Through the adjustment of returning to ’normal’ life with one leg, Heather found a practical problem that she felt she could solve. Her residual limb, or stump as she prefers to call it, was fitted with an artificial limb. But due to the nature of the wound changing in shape and size, the prosthetic leg had to be continually replaced, whilst the old leg would be discarded. Heather realised that if the redundant prosthesis would never find another use, there must be literally thousands out there just waiting for a new home. With her experiences in the former Yugoslavia, Heather knew that these redundant limbs would be more than welcome in areas such as the Former Yugoslavia.
Heather instigated a nation-wide appeal for the donation of unwanted prostheses, and then employed the services of the inmates at Brixton prison to dismantle the limbs and make them ready for transport. October 1994, just a year after her accident, the first convoy of artificial limbs and medical equipment left for Zargreb. Arriving at the Institute of Prosthetics in Zargreb the limbs were now ready to be fitted. Over 22,000 amputees and victims of land-mine explosions have been helped since the first Convoy left the U.K.
It was not long after that at the young age of 25 that Heather wrote her biography, whilst most 25 year olds could hardly fill a chapter, Heather had a real story to tell. ’Out on a Limb’ landed straight onto The Times’ best-seller list as well as appearing in the 1997 Reader’s Digest Best non-fiction compilation. The proceeds from the book go to raising money for child amputee war victim’s world-wide (although the most publicised are in the Former Yugoslavia). All Heather’s charity work has funded from her own pocket.
Heather has been given many accolades and awards for her work for charity. Former Prime Minister John Major presented her with the Gold Award for Outstanding Achievement; The Times presented her with their Human Achievement Award, and the British Chamber of Commerce not only named her Outstanding Young Person of the Year, but also named an award after her - the Heather Mills Award. If this was not enough, in 1996 she received a nomination for The Nobel Prize and has since received the 1999 "People of the Year Award", The "Cosmopolitan Woman of Achievement 2000 Award", The "Pantene Spirit of Beauty Award" and the "Woman of the Year" by the Blue Drop Group in Sicily as well as lots more.
Heather collected the "REDBROOK Mother & Shakers Award", presented by Hillary Clinton, and she received the Victory Award hosted by the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington DC.
If that was not enough, Heather has also done a lot of TV work presenting for programmes such as That’s Esther.
In her personal life, she found temporary happiness with ex-Beatle Sir Paul McCartney. Despite some rather obvious objections from Paul’s daughter Stella, the couple married in 2002 and had a daughter together.
In 2006 both Paul and Heather made a joint statement confirming their separation, after Paul McCartney filed for divorce, citing ‘unreasonable behaviour’. What has followed has been a media storm, with Heather at the heart of the controversy.
The main allegations is that she merely married Sir Paul for his money and fame, with British papers suggesting that this could be the biggest divorce settlement ever witnessed. Heather has always denied the allegation of being a ‘gold digger’, claiming that the separation and process of divorce is ‘worse than losing my leg’.
Alongside her threat to sue national papers over ‘false, damaging and immensely upsetting’ reports about the divorce, it has also been reported that Heather has received death threats since splitting with her husband.
In January 2003, a settlement was announced between the two parties, believed to amount to £32 million, plus a gagging order.
October 2007