Paul McCartney
- English
- Musician and singer
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Heather Mills has not enjoyed a particularly good press of late, so Star Stories waded into the fray to redress the balance. Its unique take upon tabloid events cast Paul McCartney as a sadistic and cruel tyrant, egged on by his manipulative daughter Stella, cosily living in a luxurious country house called Mandalay. Heather, in contrast, is a shy and naive Geordie girl for whom her charity work is everything.
'Whose the daddy?' screams Paul in flashback, as he terrorises the other three Beatles into performing on the Abbey Road studio's roof. So great was the programme's excursion into delusional fantasy that it even suggested Sir Paul's hair was dyed.
Jokes about Mills' disability were inevitable but, given Star Stories' gleefully puerile approach, remarkably few and far between.
Star Stories serves up pretty much the same fare every week, irrespective of its subject matter, but sheer nerve, energy and clever writing has so far kept it from going stale.
Harry Venning, The Stage, 15th December 2008