McCartney, Mills: It's 'Love'

By Stephen M. Silverman

07/10/1998 at 12:00 AM EDT

Sir Paul McCartney, 58, and Heather Mills, 32, publicly declared their love during a British TV interview, with the former Beatle saying, "I love her," and the model calling him "the most romantic man in the world." Mills, 32, appearing on a show called "Stars and Their Lives," reportedly had planned not to talk about their year-long relationship, but McCartney made a surprise appearance while she was speaking before a live studio audience. "I love him," she said. "On national telly?" he said. The couple met at a charity function for Mills's pet charity, which provides limbs for international war victims. Mills herself has an artificial limb, having lost her left leg below the knee after she was hit by a police motorcyclist in 1993.