EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Paul McCartney’s ex-wife Heather Mills sets new ski world record

Some claimed that Heather Mills was on a slippery slope when she divorced Sir Paul McCartney in 2008, but the former model has shown that going downhill quickly can be exhilarating.

Two years after their divorce, Mills took up competitive skiing and has just entered the Guinness World Records book as the fastest disabled skier of all time, having been recorded doing an incredible speed of 102mph in Vars, France, in 2015.

Amputee Mills, 55, says: “I’m delighted to finally have it included in the book.”

He wore a specially designed prosthetic leg to withstand the stresses of the field.

Two years after their divorce, Mills took up competitive skiing and has just entered the Guinness World Records book as the fastest female disabled skier of all time, having been timed doing an incredible speed of 102 mph in Vars. , France, in 2015.

Some claimed that Heather Mills was on a slippery slope when she divorced Sir Paul McCartney in 2008, but the former model has shown that going downhill quickly can be exhilarating.

Newlywed TV star Zane splits from artist Nettie

Having courted the likes of The Voice host Emma Willis, the late Girls Aloud singer Sarah Harding and actress Sadie Frost, TV presenter Alex Zane finally settled last summer with fashion artist Nettie Wakefield.

However, I hear the couple have already split, just five months after their wedding celebrations in London.

“At the end of last year we decided to separate,” confirms Zane, 43, who proposed to Nettie, 35, in 2018. “We parted ways in the best possible way for two people who have shared amazing, loving experiences. . and laughter and as many happy memories as two people can make in that time.

“We are still the best of friends despite making the decision to go our separate ways.”

TV presenter Alex Zane finally settled down last summer with fashion artist Nettie Wakefield. However, I hear the couple have already split, just five months after their wedding celebrations in London.

The Yorkshireman adds: “Obviously, leaving a relationship behind is never easy, but we move forward knowing we have the other to trust.” It’s about as amicable a separation as can be and we will of course continue to breed our greyhound, Simon.

I’m told Nettie, who was previously escorted by Poldark heartthrob Aidan Turner and linked to Twilight star Robert Pattinson, is being comforted by model Owen McGinnity, who was photographed with his arm around her in October. past.

Nettie, whose artwork hangs in the Groucho Club, exchanged vows with Zane during the pandemic, but they were forced to limit the number of wedding guests due to Covid restrictions, just like the big celebration last August.

Zane made a name for himself on Channel 4 co-hosting Popworld with Alexa Chung and the clip show Rude Tube.

After he proposed to Nettie, a source was reported to have said: “He’s completely smitten and soon realized he wanted to spend the rest of his life with her.”

May’s steamy gentleman dates Anita

Queen guitarist Sir Brian May and his wife, former EastEnders star Anita Dobson, appeared to be cast members as they turned up to see Cirque Du Soleil’s latest show, Kurious, at London’s Royal Albert Hall.

The circus show is themed after ‘Steampunk’, a science fiction genre inspired by 19th century steam-powered industrial machinery.

And the rocker, 75, and Dobson, 73, arrived in costumes in keeping with the theme of the night. “We were already into steampunk, so we thought we’d do it,” Sir Brian tells me.

Queen guitarist Sir Brian May and his wife, former EastEnders star Anita Dobson, looked like cast members when they attended Cirque Du Soleil’s latest show, Kurious, at London’s Royal Albert Hall.

Adams conversion is snooked – by bats

Strictly Come Dancing star Tony Adams has canceled his plans for the stables conversion at his £3.5million Cotswolds mansion after bats were found living on the roof.

The 56-year-old England and Arsenal legend and his wife, Poppy Teacher, wanted to convert the outbuilding into a two-bedroom annexe, but a bat survey found that the billiards room is being used as a nighttime resting place for lesser horseshoe, serotina and long brown. -eared bats — a protected species.

Given that he’s almost been killed at least twice in car accidents, you’d think Richard ‘Hamster’ Hammond’s family might want him to give up driving. Instead, the 53-year-old Grand Tour presenter says they want to stop joking about him. “My wife and daughters forbade me from dancing because of my face as a dancer,” Hammond admits. “Daddy’s moves are bad enough, but when they’re capped off by a stupid, grinning dancing daddy face, it’s unforgivable. At weddings they tell me that he feels me.

Oscar winner Jeremy Irons, who has played some of cinema’s most evil villains, has set his sights on a much more light-hearted role. “I want to clown, as I think part of my behavior in life shows that I’m still a bit of a clown,” he tells me at a theater show in London.

On his role as Scar, the evil antagonist in Disney’s The Lion King, Irons, 74, admits that his distinctive voice still terrifies the children he meets. ‘Sometimes they run from me in horror because they hear my voice. Of course, I love children, but when they run away.

Harry kicks the lapdog

Omid Scobie is the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s most loyal lapdog, but Harry has given him a real kick in his memoirs.

Although he refrains from naming it, Harry focuses his gaze on Scobie’s biography, Finding Freedom, in which Meghan is alleged to have undergone relentless kidnapping training.

“A best-selling book describes the day Special Forces arrived at our home, grabbed Meg, put her through several days of intense exercises, shoved her into the back seats and into the trunk of the car, and sped off to the safe houses,” Harry writes.

In fact, Scobie’s account states: “Meghan was even taught to develop a relationship with the enemy.” [and] instructed on how to drive a car during the chase.

The entire experience was “extremely intense and terrifying” for Meghan, who, Scobie writes, was subjected to it before their wedding, unlike Kate Middleton.

According to Harry, this is all ‘absolute nonsense’. Meghan “wasn’t given a minute of training,” he adds. “On the contrary, the Palace brought up the idea of ​​not giving him any security at all because I was now sixth in line to the throne.”

He’s a household cavalry officer, but You’re Beautiful singer James Blunt admits that, at 5-foot-6, he didn’t make a convincing Superman at a costume party. “I was walking home from the party with my wife,” he says of aristocrat Sofia Wellesley. “She was dressed as Wonder Woman, and I was four inches shorter than her in heels. I looked like a little boy being brought home in my clothes.