Macca versus Mills: adding up the bills

We're told by this morning's Sunday People that Paul McCartney is fuming, annoyed or outraged by the level of staffing Heather Mills is running up. To make matters worse, it seems that she only employs people who have a permanent CAPS LOCK habit:

"Team Heather" includes a GARDENER, a BMW-driving CLEANING LADY, a full-time PERSONAL TRAINER, a PERSONAL ASSISTANT and round-the-clock protection from a team of BODYGUARDS.

The personal assistant even has her OWN assistant, too.

We do wonder why the personal trainer is full-time: there's a saving that could be made. Unless Heather does seven hours of training a day, which seems unlikely. And it's no wonder the PA needs help if she's trying to keep track of all these other people. We're a little bemused by the BMW-driving cleaning lady, though - unless Heather turns down the idea of paying someone to scrub the red mould out of her toilet bowl if they turn up in a Mini, why is the car relevant?

Of course, spending a million quid a year on staff seems to be disgraceful, but then the whole concept of McCartney making fifty million quid a year in royalties alone and everything about their finances is disgustingly enormous. You need to scale this down to an everyday perspective before you can judge it - and asking for a million quid a year for staff from McCartney is akin to a normal person asking her ex to pay fifty quid to cover vets bills.

It might be the lifestyle itself which is excessive, not the question of who is picking up the tab.

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