Judging from his past, don’t expect Paul McCartney to stay single for long. The almost-30-year age difference between the McCartneys was highlighted when Heather McCartney said on TV that she was more or less unaware of what her husband had done before he met her. “What a change from Linda, who always seemed even more down to earth and level-headed than Paul was.” “Heather came off as more arrogant and uppity and egotistical than Paul, who never comes off as very arrogant at all,” said Los Angeles-based music writer Bill Holdship. Heather McCartney’s frequent appearances on CNN’s “Larry King Live” were said to be an attempt to launch her as a talk-show hostess. That made the former rock photographer vulnerable to criticism of her playing and, especially, her voice.Ī tape of Linda McCartney singing on her own, with all the instruments and other vocals stripped away, circulated among morning-show hosts.īut journalists found her to be earthy and natural, preferring the background to the limelight, which isn’t the latest Mrs. It got worse when McCartney insisted that she become part of his post-Beatles band, Wings, and sing and play keyboards. Once, promoting her frozen vegetarian-food line, she acknowledges to a reporter that she knew she was getting publicity because she was McCartney’s wife, so she decided to do good works with that attention.įrom the first day that it was clear the carefree American snagged the “cute” Beatle (they married in 1969), she was the subject of relentless slagging by the media. Linda McCartney also suffered repeated slings and arrows from the media over the years, but she cannily ignored most of them. (The McCartneys are the parents of a girl, Beatrice, born in 2003.) Late last year, the former model did win a case against a British newspaper that reported that she’d had a miscarriage. Furthermore, she said she’d have fun suing the newspapers that had printed news of the alleged split. Just last week she posted on her Web site that the news of trouble in the McCartney marriage was “rubbish,” and that paparazzi were just trying to get a photo of her in a wheelchair after recent surgery on her leg. Heather McCartney has been teeing off on the media for some time. All the work she does is unpaid, so these stories are ridiculous and unfounded.” “She is a very generous person who spends most of her time trying to help those in greater need than herself. Paul McCartney issued an additional statement on his Web site,, in which he lambasted those who suggested that Mills had married him for his money. Interestingly, there was no mention of trying to work things out, or divorce. In a joint statement, the McCartneys said they “found it increasingly difficult to maintain a normal relationship with constant intrusion into our private lives.” In Britain, the tabloids had been agog for days with news that the couple Heather and Paul had been living apart. The couple laid the blame for their split squarely on the media. It probably didn’t help family relations that the bride did not wear a Stella McCartney original wedding gown, but designed her own. By the next year, he’d met Mills, a former model who’d lost a leg in a motorcycle accident, through her work campaigning against land mines.ĭespite a fiery courtship (in 1999 Mills allegedly flung her sapphire-and-diamond engagement ring off the balcony of a Florida hotel), McCartney, now 63, and Mills, now 37, wed in 2002 to the alleged consternation of his three children by Linda, especially fashion designer Stella. Well, hey, the last time the world had a single McCartney was briefly in 1998, after the former Beatle’s first wife and muse, Linda, died. Those giant whooshing sounds you hear are sighs coming from women of a certain age, upon hearing the news that Paul McCartney and his wife, Heather Mills, have separated.
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