Heather Mills travels back to her native UK with her dancing partner Jonathan Roberts each week from Tuesday to Sunday to spend time with daughter Beatrice while practicing for her stint on US-based “Dancing with the Stars.” On one of her recent jaunts, the in-flight entertainment system broke down and Heather asked the staff if she and Jonathan could do a little performance for the passengers.

After they were through dancing on the London to LA flight, the weary travellers watching from the coach cabin just stared at them in stony silence. Then, when the pissed off passengers were finally able to leave the flight a lot of them couldn’t get off for a while because of the throng of people surrounding Heather and asking for autographs:

As the plane prepared for decent into Heathrow, the Captain made an apology announcement and then said he had a surprise for the passenger’s to make up for their nightmare trip.

After some ‘commotion and flapping’ the curtains from the upper class section ripped open to reveal Mills-McCartney in white trousers and a bright pink boob tube.

It was really awkward because when they finished, no one clapped as we were all in such a bad mood.

Fashion writer Henry Conway who was onboard said: “Heather suddenly appeared with her dance partner and rushed down premium economy doing a dance.’

‘We were at the end of our tether after flying through the night with nothing to keep us occupied. We’d all lost our sense of humour.’

‘We were stunned and moved our legs out of the way, just in case they got caught up in the frenzy.’

‘It was really surreal. We didn’t know what to do because there was no music and we were all mid boredom.’

‘It was really awkward because when they finished, no one clapped as we were all in such a bad mood.’

‘There was a deafening silence except for the plane engines.’

‘Half way down premium economy her partner flung Heather back into a dip before gallivanting back behind the partition.’

Mills, who fell over this week during competition on America’s primetime Dancing With The Stars show, retreated back to Upper Class with her dance partner Jonathan.

After the gesture backfired, passengers on flight VF0024, were further frustrated by the 39-year-old, as cabin crew made a fuss over her and an entourage and the mountains of luggage.

Mr Conway added: ‘By this point we all just wanted to get off the flight but some of the older passengers blocked our exit, scrambling for autographs with Heather.

‘She was certainly given special treatment as the crew were all over her like a rash.’

I never liked that woman and it sounds like she had some kind of hero complex thinking she could brighten up the rough flight by gracing the lower class cabin with a dance from a “celebrity.”

Meanwhile there’s a pretty amusing story in The Globe about how someone on the set “Dancing with the Stars” sent a case of Guinness to her dressing room to make a funny reference to the fact that her estranged husband Paul McCartney is now said to be dating Sabrina Guinness, the heir to the Guinness beer fortune. Heather was said to be livid:

The one-legged wonder wasn’t laughing when she returned to her TV dressing room to find crates of Guinness Irish stout piled up inside! Turns out someone tried to get a rise out of Heather… by rubbing in Paul’s budding romance with beer heiress Sabrina Guinness. But the practical joke fell flat, and left the normally upbeat “Dancing” gal stewing. “She was deeply offended by the prank and anxious to find out who pulled it.”

[From The Globe print edition, April 16, 2007 via Sammie’s Effluvia]

Now some pictures of that incident would be priceless.

Thanks to Metro.co.uk and The Daily Mail for these pictures.