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BEFORE marrying Heather Mills, Paul McCartney was a popular singer, and a singer of popular songs.

“Is everybody having a good time?” asked McCartney. “I can’t hear you at the back!” was his catchphrase. They went wild for it.

Then Paul recorded the Frog Chorus and married Heather Mills. His separation from her is now front-page news:

DAILY EXPRESS: “SIR PAUL V HEATHER – BATTLE BEGINS OVER HIS £825M FORTUNE”

Mills (”pink blouse, black skirt and high-heeled leather boots”) is at the High Court with her sister Fiona and a make-up artiste.

McCartney (”pink stripe suit, white shirt, black and white knitted scarf and black shoes”) is there, substituting his weeping guitar in favour of Nicholas Mostyn QC (ginger wig, butcher’s coat and killer heels).

DAILY MIRROR: “GET BACK – Macca’s ‘no concessions’ as divorce fights begins”

A blonde lawyer called Vanessa tells us the judge, Sir Hugh Bennett, is “sensible”

DAILY MAIL: “Look whose smiling after Day One in court.”

We looks but the pictures of Mucca (Heather Mills) and Macca reveal the former snarling as if restraining a bout of wind and the latter looking tight-lipped and aged.
Macca is with Fiona Shackleton, a lawyer nicknamed the Steel Magnolia.

Mucca is with Ben Amigioni, a fitness trainer, and Mark Payne, celebrity stylist and face paint artiste

THE SUN: “A Hard Day’s Fight”

The Sun says Heather’s skirt is grey and her boots only go to the ankle. The Express disagrees. More controversy

DAILY STAR: “MUCCA’S SHOCK HOME MOVIES”

Looks away Beatrice-Mucca-Macca, the couple’s daughter. “LET IT BEA,” says the paper.

Heather has a video. It’s called Hunting Heather. In it, Heather is superimposed onto footage of the hunt for Madeleine McCann, her face replacing that of Kate McCann.

Not really. This video shows how Heather is “hounded”. Whether she’s on the GMTV sofa, launching a campaign in Hyde Park, or dancing in America, they stare. How they stare…

METRO: “SHE HATES YOU, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH”

DAILY TELEGRAPH: “McCartney goes into battle”

FINANCIAL TIMES: “First day in McCartney case”

Sir Paul, whose personal fortune is rumoured at more than £800m, may be facing a record payout of more than £50m, lawyers say.

That would exceed the £48m awarded last year to the ex-wife of insurance magnate John Charman in the largest ever contested divorce awards.

THE GUARDIAN: “Mr Justice Bennett tries to work it out”

A black Mercedes 4×4, closely followed by a white self-drive hire van, slid through the side gate of the court. Using the van as a shield, the Mercedes parked away from the prying lenses. Mills was ushered from behind the tinted windows of the vehicle and headed for the nearby court, where, her lawyers dispensed with, she was due to grill her erstwhile spouse personally.

A little later, Sir Paul McCartney arrived with his legal team and went into the building through a side entrance. He left the court shortly before 1pm, saying: “No comment. I am sorry.” Mills stayed in the courtroom, where a screen and projector were brought in and set up. By 4.30pm, a large crowd had again gathered outside the court.
Four young girls decided to hang around.

“He used to be in a band called the Beatles,” one explained to her friends. “Then they got married.”

Posted: 12th, February 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Celebrities, Tabloids. Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0