Heather Mills might have been voted off Dancing with the Stars, America’s answer to Strictly Come Dancing, last week, but Sir Paul McCartney’s estranged wife could probably declare herself a winner nonetheless.

As we reveal in our cover story in the Sunday Review, Ms Mills managed to win herself first place in the US public’s hearts with her one-legged dancing antics.

Our journey of her long road to redemption following her bitter split from the ex-Beatle shows that against the odds she won the battle for dignity - despite the tumble on the dancefloor that cost her a place in the seventh week of the ABC network comp- etition. Mills thanked the US public for their “overwhelming response” to her participation in the show.