FURIOUS Heather Mills tipped a glass of water over Sir Paul McCartney’s solicitor yesterday as her divorce deal was sealed.Heather was said to have lashed out after a court awarded her £24.3million of her ex-hubby’s fortune.
The amount was far less than the £125million she wanted.
And as the hearing ended, witnesses said Heather calmly picked up the water and soaked lawyer Fiona Shackleton.
The brief had arrived at London’s High Court with a neat bouffant at 10.15am. She left looking bedraggled at 1.50pm.
Heather, 40, last night refused to admit pouring the water, which judge Mr Justice Bennett could have viewed as contempt.
But she laughingly boasted that Ms Shackleton, 51, had been “baptised in court” — and a source confirmed to The Sun that she was behind the attack.
A witness said: “Heather tipped the water over Fiona’s head.
Heather — mum to 65-year-old Macca’s daughter Beatrice, four — went on to slam the blonde solicitor in a bizarre statement on the steps of the court.
She said: “Fiona Shackleton has very sadly handled this case in the worst manner you can ever, ever imagine.”
She also revealed Paul had previously offered her a total of only £15.8million, and last night she walked out of court with an additional £9 million. Paul is also due to pay £35,000 a year in up-keep for their 4 year old daughter Beatrice.
£5 million to teach dancing in schools ‘a step too far’?
A controversial £5.5 million scheme has been proposed to promote dance in schools – and was dismissed last night by critics branding the idea a waste of money, saying the cash should be better spent on school books and teachers pay.
The government’s Strictly Youth Dancing Scheme will put specialist dance teachers in schools and establish six centres of advanced training by 2011. A review for the government recommended that every school in England should have a dance teacher and that pupils should have more opportunity to see live dance performances.
The success of films such as Billy Elliot, shows such as Strictly Come Dancing, and stars such as Darcey Bussell have boosted interest in dance and appear directly linked to the new government scheme. More than 15,000 children are now taking a dance GCSE, which is an 83% increase over four years.
In other news…
· Mackenzie Crook is set to make a Men Behaving Badly-style sitcom for the BBC with Iain Lee, former 11 O’Clock Show star. The show, written by Bob Mortimer, is due to start filming soon.
· A sun reporter is currently attempting to see how long he can go without sleep. Last week, the University of California claimed human beings can live perfectly well without getting sleep. They reckon we only take to our beds at night because we once hid from predators during the hours of darkness. To test whether sleep is a must-have for humans, the reporter, Nick Francis, will be staying awake as long as he possibly can at the Sun offices in London. Armed with just a computer and a few hundred litres of energy drink, he’ll force himself not to go to bed by staying up all night and talking online to readers.
· Kate Moss’s third set of hot designs for Topshop hits the high street today – this time a summer range, which is tipped to be the biggest seller yet.
· Leona Lewis seems to be doing suitably well in cracking the US. Her UK no. 1 hit single Bleeding Love is on the top of the American iTunes chart, and the singer has been invited to perform on the Oprah Winfrey chat show.
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