Sleaze please, gossip churns Web & stomachs

There is a fine scandal whirling through the gossipy back-channels of the Internet. No mention of Congressmen, pages, Catholic priests, lobbyists or even killer stingrays. This one is a good old-fashioned celebrity scandal.

Paul and Heather McCartney are battling in the British tabs. No movie ever had more lurid charges, and no country has newspapers better suited to the sleazy task. The left-wing Guardian sniffs at the lack of civility. The right-wing Telegraph is into this story. And the tabs? Daily Mail. Sun.

And you get a great chance to expand your vocab to include British, the original English.

Blog community response:

"As Heather Mills may begin to rue the day she took on Camp McCartney, Paul is busy needling away at his soon-to-be ex-wife in small, but ruthlessly effective ways. One move sure to enrage Ms Mills is Macca's decision to promote a calendar of photos by his late wife, Linda. 'Paul has posted details about the calendar on his official website,' says one source close to the singer. 'It is simply called 'The Sixties' and it will be Linda McCartney's 2007 calendar, which will include some of her best photographs. Beneath the blurb that goes with it, there is a link to order copies online. 'It would, after all, be natural for Paul to be missing Linda more than ever at the moment.'
--Celia Walden

"Doesnt it seem strange that NONE of these allegations have been made prior to the pending divorce. Personally I dont think she has a leg to stand on."
--thegrot

"We Luv ya bro!"
--crispbits

"If you subtract the vast amounts of money at stake here, and concentrate merely on the details of the divorce--the vomit, the bedpans, the breast milk--then the McCartneys sound as bad as a family of yobs on a sink estate. Except that I would be willing to bet that, under the same circumstances, the yobs would behave better. Can't buy me love, Sir Paul once wrote--or, as we are now discovering, common sense and dignity."
--Bryony Gordon, columnist