Heather Mills, having herself just emerged from a courtroom drama, will now be doing some judging of her own. According to Extra, the former Dancing with the Stars contender has been booked as a judge for the the Miss USA pageant, to be held April 11 in Las Vegas.This news comes on the heels of Mills' divorce settlement, in which her ex, Sir Paul McCartney, was ordered to pay her $48.7 million. At the close of the hearing, Mills approached McCartney's table, said, "I'm not a loser," and then dumped a jug of water on his lawyer's head.The case's judge, meanwhile, criticized Mills' performance during the trial. "The husband's evidence was... balanced," Judge Hugh Bennett said, per court documents. "I cannot say the same about the wife’s evidence." "Having watched and listened to her," Bennett continued, "I am driven to the conclusion that much of her evidence, both written and oral, was not just inconsistent and inaccurate but also less than candid. Overall she was a less than im...
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Paul's wallet is dead.London's High Court on Monday ordered former Beatle Paul McCartney to pay his estranged wife Heather Mills 24.3 million pounds — that's $48.7 million to you and me — as their long-running and nasty divorce proceedings came to a close. "I am so glad it is over," the AP quotes Mills as saying after the ruling. "It was an incredible result in the end to secure mine and my daughter's future and that of all the charities that I obviously plan on helping and making a difference with. [That] has been my life for 20 years."Mills, who had represented herself in the courtroom, urged other divorcées-to-be to do the same thing. "You can be a litigating person," says the former Dancing with the Stars contender. "You'd save yourself a fortune." And, it would seem, collect a whole other one on top of that.
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I have been to two consecutive ABC upfront presentations and both times Jimmy Kimmel has simply slayed the audience with wonderfully pointed barbs. You think I, you and any Tom/Dick/TVLoverHarry here can bring the snark when cracking on TV shows/personalities? Just watch a pro — and one in the business called show — do it.Last year, Kimmel's set surfaced on YouTube, but until the same happens for his latest, a few choice sound bites (paraphrased a bit, seeing as I was too busy noshing on free popcorn to break out the Tandy recorder):• "ABC has decided on an end date for Lost. And I hear CBS is doing the same thing for Katie Couric."• "There are good shows that get bad ratings, bad shows that get good ratings... There's NCIS...." (I don't know what he meant exactly, but it was funny.)• "Last year, we promised you a sitcom starring Mick Jagger. You knew we were bulls---ting, right? I mean... It's Mick Jagger."• Regarding the big news in TV this week: "Law...
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Apparently Samantha Harris wasn’t the only one who could accurately predict the future this week. Heather Mills said she knew that she was going home, and she came prepared with notes for her parting words. She didn’t appear upset so much as determined — determined to express her thanks to various people and to get her message out about animal rights. She seemed to achieve both of the goals she set for herself in this competition: She raised money for her charities and served as a role model for people with prosthetic limbs. Honestly, Heather lasted much longer on Dancing with the Stars than I initially thought she would. I remember reading message boards when this season’s slate of contestants was first revealed, and there was a lot of anti-Heather sentiment out there. A lot. I thought she might be the first one out — not because of her leg, but because of her extreme unpopularity. Yet she made it halfway through the competition and showed herself to be bot...
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It was a very strong showing. Contrary to what many had predicted, amputee Heather Mills didn't get kicked off ABC's Dancing with the Stars the first elimination week. Or the second. Or the fourth. She survived until last night, shocking the judges and impressing voters enough to keep her in the game a long time and give her a respectable seventh-place finish out of 11 dancers. Mills says she knew on Monday night that her dancing days were numbered, exhausted as she was after commuting for the first time from L.A. to London and back in the same week. "That's the good thing about never drinking coffee," she says. "When you need it, you have one and it works."
But after she had done the fiery Latin dance the paso doble, the judges said again that they wanted to see stronger arms, a more polished upper body.
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