Mills 'to battle Macca relative on DOI'

Heather Mills is to compete against a relative of Sir Paul McCartney on the next series of Dancing On Ice, a report has claimed today.

According to The Sun, show producers have snapped up 19-year-old actress Emily Atack, who is the daughter of McCartney's cousin Kate Robbins.

Mills has already been linked to the ITV1 skating show in a number of recent press reports. She has also been spotted training at an ice rink close to her home in East Sussex.

A source said: "Heather is currently unaware that Emily is also going on the show. Emily's involvement in the show is supposed to be top secret, but she has been practising. She has never skated before, but touch wood the training is going well and she's not had any accidents so far.

"Emily's extended family are all very close. She'll have met Paul many times. She'll have met Heather too - though it is doubtful Heather will react well to learning that a relative of Paul's will be competing against her on Dancing On Ice."

Atack is best known for playing Charlotte Hinchcliffe in Channel 4 sitcom The Inbetweeners.