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Heather Mills on a slippery slope
The Sun really needs to make up whatever it has as a corporate mind. Is Heather Mills a cash-hungry squaderbug, or is she as tight as a TT Race hairpin?
Today's paper calls her a cheapskate:
LADY Mucca has sloped off on a cheapie skiing holiday — despite being offered a £30million divorce payout.
The estranged wife of ex-Beatle Paul McCartney, 64, is staying at a £27-a-night no-frills hotel in Slovenia with friends and family.
(Yes, they're still trying with the Lady Mucca thing - they've even paid for Google adwords on the phrase.)
Now, we find it hard to work up sympathy for Heather, but this is a little unfair: firstly, why would a possible payout in the future influence her decisions today? We know the paper fills its pages with ads for usurious loan companies, but it's not become illegal to not spend money before you've got it, has it? Especially when that money may or may not have been offered and may or may not materialise as part of a divorce settlement?
More to the point, if anyone on the staff had an interest in current affairs, they'd know that the snowfall in the alps this year has been pretty poor, and committed skiers are heading east looking for snow - even if it means staying in cheaper accommodation than that which they'd usually take. Mills isn't being tightfisted. She just wants to ski.
Of course, had she been at an expensive resort, the story would have been about her guzzling cash...
2 comments:
also, slovenia is generally much cheaper, than, say, Aspen, so that a 27 quid a night hotel does not necessarily mean it is a cheap place - it might actually be the most expensive place there (afaik, four star hotels in that area cost about 100 euros for two)
the press in slovenia is very polite. They don't follow you around. They ask you, if they can take your picture. If you say no, they leave you alone. So i understand, why she went there.
The sad thing is, that some english reporters followed her to slovenia and are just being very annoying.The slovene press wrote about them, it even was on TV. They didn't have anything nice to say about them.
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