Don’t be vulgar, says new Heather Mills PR

Has Heather Mills, estranged wife of Sir Paul McCartney, made a terrible choice in picking a self-styled French aristocrat to be her worldwide publicist? Reaction from the American press and public suggests so. 'Comtesse' Michele Elyzabeth, based in Beverly Hills, took on the job last week after Mills's previous PR dumped her. The trouble is the comtesse's idea of PR is pretty off-beat. She's launched a blog where she sits on a white sofa with her tiny dog, Bijou (pictured together right), and a man called David Paul, eulogising her friend Heather in a thick French accent and promising to "take apart" every "bad" article that crosses her path.

"I represent Heather Mills, the most spoken-about person all over the place," she says on her first blog video. "I'm sick and tired about hearing these lies... Heather is a wonderful person..."

Meanwhile her friend David Paul interjects with such helpful apercus as: "She [Heather] has a demeanour that you rarely see in a celebrity."

Sadly, the first blog video did not receive the degree of respect the comtesse was expecting. Yesterday she wrote a heartfelt note saying that she had had to excise many of the comments: "I don't see the necessity of the profanity used. I have eliminated the comments that were vulgar. If the improper language continues, I will make comments only available to registered users."

The comtesse, who also uses the name Michele Blanchard, has taken on the role of Heather's cheerleader between selling her own brand of champagne, wines and caviar facials at her Sunset Boulevard beauty salon.

She made a false start working as Heather's US spokesman last year when, on the American TV show Extra, she wrongly claimed that Mills had received a court order granting her full custody of her daughter Beatrice, with Paul receiving visiting rights. After that faux-pas, the comtesse went to ground until her re-emergence last week - though US satirists had a field day with her French accent in the meantime.