Showing posts with label Heather Mills McCartney. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Heather Mills McCartney. Show all posts

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Heather Mills - 'Do buy the comtesse's champagne'


The Comtesse Michele Elyzabeth trashed former PR client Heather Mills last Sunday in the News of the World, claiming among so many other things that she was suing the so-called Mucca over unpaid fees. Yet when I turn to the comtesse’s website for her champagne I see that Heather is still being used as a celebrity endorsement with a poignant pic. How fragile is a union forged only in business. Click here

Monday, March 17, 2008

Heather Mills - The Baptist

My congratulations to Heather Mills on baptising Macca's ghastly solicitor Fiona Shackleton by throwing water over her dyed blonde locks on the premises of the Royal Courts of Justice. For this act alone I wish Heather all the best in her new life as her daughter Beatrice travels "B-class" on a measly £35,000 a year from her father while he travels "A class" on his £800m fortune (or £400m if you believe the idiot judge). See the Goddess' new website, bow in the presence of a true heroine, click here. Hillary Clinton pays tribute to the Goddess Heather, click here.

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

The Screws makes up another story

The News of the World said the Maccas had agreed on a £65m settlement. Made up. For more about fake news in the world of dead trees media get a copy of Flat Earth News.

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Please pray for Heather Mills McCartney

Would followers of the cult of Arcati please think of Heather Mills at 3pm today and wish her the £80m she deserves from that old skinflint Macca (worth a billion quid or $2 billion for my American friends). Visualise tons of coins raining down on her.

Please allow for different time zones for this unique prayer meeting: our group energy will help the poor unrepresented poppet against those Macchiavellian QCs and solicitors he's got lined up against her. It's almost like Erin Brockovich. Who should play Heather in the movie reconstruction of this high drama? - Sandi Toksvig would be perfect. Tony Curtis would be plausible as Macca, creaking along the echoey corridors of the Royal Courts of Justice as the change in his pockets ching-chings.

(Sandi should have been the new Miss Marple incidentally, and should be the next Doctor Who. There's nothing that woman can't do)

The media lawyer Mark Stevens (who needs to lose weight have a hair cut) called Macca a "deity" on TV yesterday. Yes, he's the God of Money.

Sunday, February 10, 2008

Heather Mills McCartney settles for ...

On the eve of Heather Mills McCartney's day in court, turning into a bewigged Cherie Blair to "grill" Sir Paul McCartney for a slice of his fortune, let's remind ourselves of how much the newspapers claim she'll get:

News of the World - reports she wants £80m but will get £20m (Feb 10 2008)
News of the World - Heather accepts a £29m deal (2007)
News of the World - Paul offers Heather £40m deal to keep quiet (Sept 2006)
The Sunday Times - reports Heather wants £85m but Paul will settle only between £13m-20m
Press Association - the settlement could be as much as £60m
News.com.au - "Record $120m payout for Mills"
Sydney Morning Herald - Mills to get £55m
Sunday Mirror - "Heather thinks she can get £200m"
Scotland on Sunday - "£55m"
Glasgow Sunday Mail - "£50m"
The People - Macca's dismissed her £10m kiss-off offer (yeah, right ...)
Showbiz Spy - "$110"
Thaindian News, Thailand - "Heather's agreed to £10m"
NME - Pair agree to £60m divorce deal (2007)
The Sun - "Mucca gets £50 million" (2007)
Daily Telegraph - She could get as much as £70m (2007)
The Guardian - "Lady McCartney could walk away with around £200m despite being married to the former Beatle for just four years" (2006)
The Scotsman - settlement could reach £70m
The Times - Sir Macca offeres Mucca £55m to keep her cake-hole shut (Feb 8 2008)
Daily Mirror - She'll settle for £10m
Heather Mills - "I don't want his money" - GMTV

Etc, etc

For more on Churnalism, read Nick Davies' Flat Earth News: An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media, click here

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Heather Mills: Two bitch superstars (and a dog)


Michele and Bijou. David is elsewhere

I am pleased to see that Heather Mills McCartney's new global PR Michele Elyzabeth has put on the moderator on her Heather blog at long last – I am most impressed. She has also wisely removed all the tabloid-driven commenter bile and replaced it with a confetti of lovely healing thoughts with only the slightest sign of demurral to Heather’s gospel – this too is wise: it gives the impression of free-speech (a childish notion in net world).

I think I may like Michele who has a dog called Bijou and a gay hairdresser called David. In contrast to Heather’s last PR, the Yoda-ish Phil Hall who understands how thin-skinned the average hack is, Michele vlogs weekly rants at the media as Bijou looks on with a sad countenance. Some media pundits are saying that Heather has made another big boob with Michele, but I’m not so sure. I did suggest in a previous posting that perhaps she could improve her image with some humour and self-parody. I think Heather has just found herself the perfect lightning rod.

And so to the Michele vlogs. In the first she appears without Bijou and announces in what may be a French accent: “I am sick and tired of all the lies about Heather.” She promises to “take apart” lying articles every week. True to her word she then launches into a splenetic attack on Barbara Walters and her show The View over claims Heather cancelled an appearance. Not true you bastards! And of Walters’ broadcast opinion that Heather is a "difficult woman", Michele explains that this defamation arose because Heather had the audacity to ask "for water at room temperature” when she appeared on Barbara's show earlier. "Heather had a tooth pulled that day so she was sensitive and in any case water at room temperature is a healthy option," Michele adds. With regretful pathos she sighs: “Walters was a fabulous journalist who got famous and became this storyteller of ... tabloid magazine” (sic).

Vlog 2 is even better. Here Michele appears with David on a sofa. Bijou sits between the drama queens and falls asleep to Michele's caresses. “If Heather were a man she’d be considered strong,” drawls David. They then both crucify a galère of anti-Heather villains including the Daily Mail and Perez Hilton – of the latter Michele says: “He drew something disgusting over Heather’s picture. He took someone else’s name to get famous. ” David responds: “That’s because he’s a nobody”.

The pair reveal their true glorious colours though when they bitch about someone called Joy Behar who slagged off Heather on The View. David: “She laughed about Heather’s leg, about a disability. I mean, I don’t laugh that Joy is 30 pounds overweight, has bad colour and needs a facelift.” To this Michele screeches and Bijou cocks up a fluffy ear. The show ends with a dodgy claim by David that Sir Paul’s “big PR machine” has shut down a lot of Heather’s charity work. Oh, more, more please.

It is plain to me that Michele and David must be given their own talk show PRONTO. They are brilliant. Like true stars they take the media seriously and aren't ashamed to customise their rage to the needs of the payer - a symptom of what some call loyalty. Two fabulous motormouth bitches! And little Bijou! Heather, I love you for bringing these people into our lives. I hope you get $100m from Macca. You have earned it in my view.

Catch Michele and David yourselves, click here

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Heather Mills: New PR may not last long ...

Heather Mills has appointed a new worldwide PR to replace Phil Hall - one exotic Michele Elyzabeth who has aristocratic pretensions and a new Heather blog unwisely unmoderated. The result is a cascade of atrociously insulting anti-Heather comments from the net's gabby anonymice - along the lines of "Crazy hires crazy", "She's only famous because she sucked a Beatle's dick" and "Why doesn't she take off her stump and knock you both over the head". Oh dear, this is not good PR at all, unless it's an experiment to measure the level of tabloid-driven bile directed at the embattled Lady Macca. Whatever, read up for yourself, click here.

Thursday, November 08, 2007

Heather Mills McCartney: Crime claim against Sun?

Glad to see Heather Mills McCartney has no regrets about her various attacks on the British press last week. On GMTV this morning she claimed that a Sun journalist had approached a man in Newcastle offering him money to make up a story against her - "It could be a criminal matter," she said, "we have a statement from the man." This is most interesting and I shall watch with interest.

I liked the fact she kept calm this time and didn't whinny on a top note to suggest an imminent blub - she's not one for tears is Heather. She also wished Macca well in his new relationship with "US millionairess" Nancy Shevell saying it was no one's business but his. Some ancient alleged Mafia link with her dad's company adds juiciness.

Monday, November 05, 2007

Heather! Get yourself on Ross pronto!

The PR Mark Borkowski gives sensible advice to Heather Mills McCartney in today's Guardian after shaking his head at her TV antics of last week. He even tries to explain to her the "emotional roles" celebrities play in the wretched lives of the public. First, stars provide a "mythical narrative that the fan can follow and identify with" (very true, as my studies of Spacey fans have revealed). Second, stars can "function as an empty screen on to which fans can project their dreams." He adds: "The slightest deviation from these prescribed roles provokes enormous rage." In other words, she should have just put up with the press shit because, let's face it, we want her to be Cruella.

Mr Borkowski is one of our shrewder PRs - Madame Arcati might yet put him on a retainer! But there is one way in which a celebrity can tear away the binds of media central casting. It's called self-parody. Send yourself up - surprise your public with a display of comic self-knowingness - and a whole new life may await you.

The trick is to get yourself on a show where you can be mercilessly sent up, thereby burying the old myth. The show has to be pretty hot - ie very cool - to achieve image conversion. Until recently anything associated with Ricky Gervais might have done the trick - ask Les Dennis who has not looked back since he appeared in Gervais' Extras in a piece of self-crucifying irony. The Simpsons is also a great place to shape-shift the PR: get yourself cartoonised, have yourself slotted into a zeitgeist narrative animation, and the public will look upon you with eyes afresh (except it didn't really work for Blair - he was too far gone by the time of his 'tooning).

Talk shows may help, but you have to be careful. A spot on Graham Norton might just do the trick if you can withstand his porno theatre of cruelty. Jonathan Ross is a better bet since he still cleverly sides with the stars while taking the gentle piss, loudly. If Heather could be persuaded to swallow the bitter pills of his scabrous humour - "So, Heather, what was it about a pop icon billionaire that appealed to you," etc etc - and if she could just hold her face together in a pose of amused tolerance, well, perhaps even the Sun might lay off. Eventually.