Heather Mills by John Sciulli/WireImage.com
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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Heather Mills by Mike Marsland/ WireImage.com
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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Heather Mills with Jonathan Roberts, Dancing with the Stars
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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Let’s jump right to the highlight of the night: the group swing was 100 percent fun, perhaps the best group dance that involved the celebrities in the past four seasons of Dancing with the Stars. Everyone was so into the performance that the energy was contagious. Even more impressive was how well they gelled as a group (even Heather and Jonathan, who missed the group practice). The couples all played to their strengths (e.g., Ian and Cheryl did back-to-back lifts, while Laila tossed Max aside and carried Apolo), and no one upstaged the others. Plus they all got into character and pulled off the cute little theatrical moments, such as Joey and Ian’s mock fight and the ladies all fawning over Billy Ray.Theatrics wound up playing a big part in many of the dances last night, a night in which the judges really emphasized the importance of performance. No one learned this lesson harder than Ian, who said that he was going to try to focus more on performance than technique this ...
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Dancing with the Stars' Clyde Drexler and Elena Grinenko
Clyde Drexler thinks he's toast. "I'm out," says the NBA Hall of Famer, looking into his crystal ball and seeing his own elimination on Tuesday night's Dancing with the Stars results show. "I'm off the show. And if this isn't it, I'm gonna break a leg or something."
One week after head judge Len Goodman read the celebrities the riot act about not practicing long enough and hard enough, the DWTS judges seemed in a lighter, more forgiving mood. But Drexler still managed to take significant body blows. Judge Carrie Ann Inaba called him flat out, "the worst dancer in the competition." As a group, the judges seem dismayed that he's not improving and not more like a couple of supe
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Speaking to E! News, Dancing with the Stars "charity activist and campaigner" Heather Mills sobbed as she surveyed the toll her divorce from Paul McCartney has taken on her. "All I did was fall in love with someone madly, and I'm constantly being vilified in the press for it," she shared. As for accusations that the former Beatle's soon-to-be-ex is a gold digger, Mills countered, "If I was, I would've been a very wealthy woman... and that wasn't the case at all." Prior to wedding McCartney, Mills spents 14 years earning money through speaking engagements, savings which she in turn used to help McCartney return to the stage.
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Those last rites you heard coming from my place Monday night? That was me mourning what had become of the serialized thriller on the Fox network, after sitting through the silly finish of Prison Break's sophomoric sophomore season and yet another hour of the sadly diminished 24. Honestly, there was more natural tension in Dancing with the Stars last night (thanks, Heather Mills), and certainly more satisfying twists and turns during the various tangos and jives.It was pretty clear that there was really only one place for Prison Break to go after this endless season on the run, and that was back to prison, albeit this time a Panama hellhole that makes HBO’s Oz look like the wizard's own Emerald City. Gee, do you think Michael has a tattoo that can get him out of this fine mess? Among his fellow inmates (or at least also in captivity by episode's end): Mahone, framed with drugs planted on his purloined boat by the brothers; T-Bag, naturally; and the bellicose Bellick. In what I s...
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I can’t go so far as to say it was an all-out theme night, but about half of last night’s celebrities got inspiration for their dances from movies. First Edyta took John Ratzenberger to a Valentino movie to get inspired for the tango. This seemed to work in terms of him getting into character for the dance. I was impressed with his facial expressions and intensity, but I think that was the strongest part of his dance. The judges pointed out that he needs to make some technical improvements, and it did seem like Edyta was working extra hard making big movements around him. He deservedly got one of the lowest scores of the evening.Movie inspiration proved far more successful for one of the top scorers of the night (there was a four-way tie), Joey Fatone. While I wasn’t crazy about the Stars Wars theme music (I found it and the lights a bit distracting), I have to acknowledge that it was a really good tango. The fact that Joey is so into Star Wars gave his performance ex...
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