Heather Mills: Vegan campaigning made holidaymakers shun my daughter

New partner: Heather Mills with snooker player Jamie Walker in Hove

The former model, who is trying to launch an international chain of "meatless meat" cafés, told how fellow guests on a recent break in the south of France refused to sit with her and Beatrice, her daughter with Sir Paul McCartney.

Ms Mills, 41, said: "Beatrice questions everybody who eats animals. When we were in the south of France, there was a buffet for kids, and by the end of the week no one would sit near us because she would go over and say Why are you eating that cow's bottom?' or Oh, look at that little shrimp with little eyes'."

Ms Mills recently opened vegan VBites café in Hove, East Sussex, selling "streaky bacon" made out of soya dyed pink and fish-free "fish fingers".

Ms Mills describes her life since her £24 million divorce settlement from Sir Paul in an exclusive interview with ES magazine, out tomorrow.

She also claims alleged death threats against her, which she talked about in a GMT interview in 2007, were part of an elaborate hoax to make her lose custody of Beatrice.

And she says her new partner, snooker player Jamie Walker, 36, is "exactly what I need, a man without ego".

Full story: the exclusive interview with Heather Mills is in tomorrow's
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