Millie Holmes-Elder Cruises On...

Miss Prozac is about to barf her wheaties. Millie Holmes-Elder got let off today without jail time for drug charges. As if that isn’t bad enough, the lawyer presented some trumped up argument about Millie needing to be able to travel the seven seas for work and to see biological father, Stratis, who from all accounts has shown zero interest in travelling to NZ to see her after allowing Paul Holmes to adopt her.

The adoption is full of mystery.Greg Hallett's awesome book NEW ZEALAND...A BLACKMAILER'S GUIDE claims that Paul Holmes had to find $850,000 to pay out Hinemoa's former partner who would return to England. [source]

Millie Elder (nee Millie Holmes) will be getting 12 months supervision, which means checking in with someone appointed by the court on a regular basis, and adhering to any other terms they might impose – in this case continued drug rehab. The terms are also likely to continue some of her bail terms, such as not associating with drug users.

As if that wasn’t bad enough in light of the fact that there are questions over her commitment to being drug-free, Millie’s lawyer Chris Comeskey

argued that she should be discharged without conviction as a drug conviction would prevent her travelling overseas in the future to visit her biological father in Greece, and to implement her plan to work on tour boats or overseas. [source]

Unless she’s going to be the Captain of the cruise ship it’s impossible to understand what she could do on a ship that she couldn’t do on dry land, other than escape the scrutiny of those waiting for her to slip up again. Fortunately the judge was smart enough to see this, and Millie was charged on all three counts.

Papa Holmes spoke on her behalf, but we know from previous media interviews that Paul Holmes is a soft touch where Millie is concerned. Expect another father-daughter interview any moment now. After all, she has to raise the cash for her overseas adventure from somewhere...

If Don Murray is to be believed (in his post dated 22 January 2008) Papa has his own issues

Blackie bumped into his old adversary Holmesie in the Victoria Ave Lotto shop one Saturday afternoon and they decided to bury the hatchet and settle their differences over a drink at P Holmes' place not far away in Remuera.

While chain smoking and ploughing through the wine, Holmesie mentioned to Blackie that he had " some stuff arriving shortly."

As Blackie was being collected by his missus, a white Mercedes with tinted windows screeched to a halt in Mahoe Ave.Holmesie was seen to sprint from his house to jump into the backseat of the white Merc.

Was that the " stuff " being delivered ?

Two months later Holmesie evicted stepdaughter Millie after she'd stolen Paul's Cartier watch to buy some product.

Millie then went to live with a dude who owned a white Mercedes with tinted windows.

What a coincidence.

Indeed.

No Jail for Millie Holmes-Elder

Millie Holmes-Elder was sentenced today in the Auckland District Court to 12 months supervision and further drug rehabilitation treatment for P addiction. More details on the court hearing here.

Millie pleaded guilty to possessing P (methamphetamine), drug equipment (a P pipe) and allowing her rented flat to be used for drugs. The original charges alleged that Millie also received stolen goods but those charges were not pursued.

The police recently alleged that Millie was continuing to use drugs, and drinking alcohol in breach of her bail conditions but no additional charges were laid.

Several commenters have suggested to NZ Reality Television that Millie has no intention of quitting drugs, and some allege she is still using while on bail. Today on the TradeMe message board one poster said:

sorry i have to agree with stu here
i know millie and she told a friend after court one day, that she will start smoking P as soon as it is all over and will be 'cool' again.

racheljames23 12:17 pm, 31 Mar

The post has since been deleted from the message board.

What do you think? Has Millie got "star" treatment, or is this the right sentence for her crimes?

Millie Elder-Holmes Sues Ex Lover

Hell hath no fury like a gal with lawyers on her speed dial list.

Millie Elder-Holmes plans to be back in court again – this time to sue her ex boyfriend Daniel Moyes - after he gave what she claims is a false statement to police.

Daniel Moyes, 22, part of the Moyes car empire family, told police that drugs and drug paraphernalia found at his Kohimarama home belonged to Elder and she was continuing to use drugs while on bail.

Millie strongly denied this, and now it appears the police investigation backs this up. The police conducted fingerprint tests on the P pipe and bag of methamphetamines and were unable to find any evidence that Millie had touched them.

There were no new charges as a result of the police investigation.

"I have the resources to do something about this so I am going to," Millie Holmes said. "He told them information about me that just wasn't true. I'm not going to let him get away with that."

Surely what she means is that Papa Holmes has the money to do something about it. Although, at the rate Millie's going through his money, when you tot up the legal fees, the drug rehab and all the ipods, Gameboys and other toys she stole from her family to fund her drug habit, there's a danger Paul Holmes will never make it onto The Rich List.

The odd thing is that Millie told gossip columnist Bridget Saunders only one week ago that she wasn't worried by the betrayal, adding that “He didn’t mean it”.

Surely, if 'Love Rat' Moyes has been wasting police time with lies, they will charge him. After all, the man is well known to them...

Police documents describe Moyes as a recovering meth user with a significant criminal history. He "associates with known criminals who are heavy meth users and commit crimes to fuel their habits", according to the documents.

Millie is employed as a PA in Ponsonby and hopes to be discharged without conviction when she comes up for sentencing on 20th March 2008. If she is, you can expect a public outcry. She breached her bail conditions, and, according to reports on her court appearance, she was sullen and uncooperative during the hearing. Reports suggested that Millie rolled her eyes at the judge and appeared to mouth an obscenity at the court prosecutor as well as adopting a defiant manner.

If Herald on Sunday is to be believed Millie also plans to get a Miniature Pinscher (Min Pin) dog. Not that anyone cares what sort of dog Millie owns, but you have to wonder if she’s isn’t getting ahead of herself with a possible prison sentence pending.



Sources: Sunday News and NZ Herald

No New Charges for Millie Elder

Millie Elder was back in court this morning, after breaching bail conditions last month. The police had two weeks to investigate the alleged breaches and lay new charges after they found a P pipe in her ex lover's home, and he went on record saying that Millie was still using drugs. The police now say there will be no new drugs charges and the judge has lifted Millie's midnight to 7am curfew at mum Hinemoa Elder's Waiheke home.

There was no mention in news reports of the results of a fingerprint test on the P pipe found in Daniel Moyes' home.

An on-duty police officer saw Millie Holmes-Elder drinking alcohol at Sky City, although Millie's lawyer said that she was carrying the drinks for friends and insisted that Millie wasn't using drugs.

Millie will be in court again in March 2008 for sentencing for possession of drugs and allowing her home to be used for drugs.


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Millie Elder & Love Rat Moyes

Daniel Moyes, son of the annoying man that tries to sell you cars from his big Mt Wellington lot, has been revealed as the ex lover who spilled the beans on Millie Elder's supposed drug taking ways. Miss Prozac says supposed, because Millie denies that she has been taking drugs since starting rehab at Capri Trust, and also denies that a P pipe found at Daniel's home was hers. The police plan to fingerprint the pipe to verify whether Millie has handled it.

Keep in mind that Millie planned to fight the original drug charges, before later pleading guilty.

Millie's weekly drug tests have been clean, however that doesn't preclude casual use of drugs, as many exit the system 24-48 hours after use. Drug testing will be stepped up to twice weekly in the lead up to her sentencing next month.

Millie Elder-Holmes broke up with builder and ex drug addict James Mail in November 2007, not long after revealing him as the man she was "in like" with.

Serial dater, Millie, is said to have lived with Daniel Moyes for a couple of weeks in early 2008. Daniel is a fellow druggie, and perhaps not the world's most reliable witness, however he insists that he is clean and telling the truth

Police documents describe Moyes as a recovering meth user with a significant criminal history. He "associates with known criminals who are heavy meth users and commit crimes to fuel their habits", according to the documents.

He claims that Millie continues to use drugs and that the pipe found at his home belongs to her.

Miss Prozac noted with interest that Millie's lawyer Jesse Soondram told media that Millie is being picked on and said, "She's had enough attention. She wants to put it behind her." However, as one reporter rightly pointed out, "But, she's instigated it." It always amuses Miss Prozac that celebrities are happy to invite reporters into their home when it suits their bank balance, and then cry foul when they get caught with their hands on a glass of wine and a P Pipe.

Reporters also asked whether Millie has taken any real responsibility for her actions. The lawyer said that he believed pleading guilty to the original charges showed she was serious, and went on to say "I very much doubt that any new charges will be laid."



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Millie Bailed after Rumoured Drug Use

Millie Elder Bailed After Rumoured Drug Use

She's in jail. No, she's out on bail. She's in jail. No, she's out on bail. Her name's Millie Elder. No, it's Millie Holmes. Her name's Millie Elder. Miss Prozac just knows there's a song in this somewhere.

Millie Elder is once again out on bail after breaching three conditions of her previous bail

1. Having a few drinkies at a party at Sky City;
2. Spending time with someone she was prohibited from seeing - turns out Santa isn't the only one who keeps a list of who is naughty and nice; and
3. An ex-lover spills the beans and says Millie is still using Class A drugs, Miss Prozac wonders how much he will get for selling that story to the gossip mags
   

At this stage police have not filed additional charges, but are keeping that up their sleeves, with the possibility of future drugs related charges after they complete their investigations.


Naughty Millie appeared defiant at her court appearance, with reports that she rolled her eyes when the judge reimposed her curfew. Teenagers! Honestly, you can't shoot 'em, and you can't lock 'em away until they come to their senses. Oh, wait a minute...

According to The Dominion Post she also

Appeared to mouth an obscenity at Crown Solicitor Kristin Lummis during the court appearance.

They go on to say

When police visited the home of her former partner* they found utensils used for drug making, which he claimed belonged to Ms Elder. He also claimed Elder continued using drugs while on bail.

*No, it's not the partner that you saw her with in the gossip mags, but yet another boyfriend.

Millie's lawyer denies that the drug making equipment belonged to her client, and Millie denies that she has breached the conditions of bail.

Millie will be residing in the idyllic island paradise of Waiheke with mum Hine Elder, who will now get a chance to use all those wonderful psychiatric skills she employs in counselling youth drug and alcohol addicts. You didn't hear the word ironic pass Miss Prozac's lips.

Millie's midnight to 7am curfew has been reinstated, but let's face it there's nothing to do on Waiheke after midnight...

Millie Elder Faces New Drug Charges

So near and yet so far… Just when she is in sight of her goals, it appears that 19 year old Millie Elder/Holmes has fallen off the wagon.

Yesterday Millie was arrested and back in the lockup for breaching the terms of her release on bail. According to NewstalkZB, Silly Millie will be facing four new drugs charges today relating to Class A drugs. In other reports, Millie was said to have “breached bail by associating with a woman who was with her at the time of her arrest."

Last year, Millie's sentencing on drugs charges was delayed until March 2nd 2008 to allow her the opportunity to complete a drugs rehab program at the swanky Capri Trust. With just a month to go, it looks like the temptation of past friendships was too much. Funny, Miss Prozac clearly remembers Millie in her “exclusive” Close Up interview on TV One saying that she knew she had to abstain from all drinking, drugs and contact with any friends from that lifestyle.

Maybe a few nights in jail will bring her to her senses?

Updated: Millie is now out on bail (again)



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Millie Holmes/Elder Back in Jail

Millie Holmes/Elder is back in jail for breaching her bail conditions.

It seems that all the well paid tales to the gossip mags of being on the straight and narrow are a distant memory, with Silly Millie fast-tracked back to jail. According to the Dominion Post

She was arrested yesterday and is in the cells at Auckland Central police station.

Millie's bail terms have not been made public, but in cases involving drug abuse the terms usually include regular drug testing and attendance at rehabilition. Could she have failed one of her regularly scheduled drug tests or is it a case of her getting back together with her old drug mates? We hear that Millie is still spending time with people with known links to drugs, but all will be revealed tomorrow. So far, the news is that "she breached bail by associating with a woman who was with her at the time of her arrest". Millie is rumoured to be facing new drug charges on Thursday.

Bail terms can include restrictions on the times and places a bailee can go gadding about, and the people they mix with. In past reports, Millie has talked about having a curfew which was recently extended to allow her to socialise until the pumpkin hour.

Millie will be back in court on Thursday morning, no doubt accompanied by a hundred bloodthirsty reporters and devoted daddy (shhh, don't let him hear you call him Millie's stepfather) Paul Holmes, but will mum Hinemoa Elder come out of her self-imposed exile on Waiheke Island to support her troubled daughter?

Update: Millie is now out on bail and rumoured to still be using drugs



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Millie Holmes Drug Sentence Deferred

Millie Holmes nee Millie Elder's sentencing for drug charges (for possession of P, a pipe and allowing her premises to be used for drugs) has been deferred to give her a chance to complete drug rehab. Really, you would think a spell behind bars would be the ultimate rehab, but instead Millie has been given permission to continue with her outpatient treatment at ritzy Capri Trust and is allowed to stay out until midnight each night.

Her new sentencing date is in March 2008. No doubt Millie will use her time to sell the latest instalment of her story to the media.

According to Capri Trust

Addiction is a sickness. It can be helped and the Capri Trust has put together a DVD with copies of the presentations, information from reformed addicts and details about what goes on in a rehab clinic and the services that are provided.

To receive your copy please email the Clinical Director who will arrange to forward you this stimulating yet shocking full revelation into exactly what the problem is and how to go about fixing it.

A shocking full revelation, huh? Now there's a story for you Millie...

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Millie Holmes a Lesbian?

Millie Elder Lesbian?

Millie Holmes’ addiction to media interviews has put the kibosh on her relationship with builder and ex drug-addict James Mail. Apparently he doesn’t like all the media attention that comes with dating a “celebrity”. Although, he didn’t object to receiving cold hard cash for the interviews with gossip rags (Don Murray reckons James received $4,000 for his part and Millie was said to pick up a cool $11,000) for a couple of hours work talking about how they “like” each other but can’t say the love word.

Meanwhile Sunday News has been actively encouraging rumours that Millie Holmes is a lesbian. Their evidence? Facebook messages between Millie and Deal or No Deal model Rebecca Coddington, who list themselves as being in a relationship with each other.

"I fricken luv u!" says an entry from Rebecca on Millie's page on the social networking website.

"Missing you sexbeast," says an entry from Millie to Rebecca.

But Millie told Sunday News the "relationship" entries were "just a joke".

"We are best mates. We are really, really close. But we just put that out as a joke," she said.

Rebecca, a model on TV3's Deal or No Deal, also told Sunday News she said she was in a "relationship" with Millie on her Facebook page as a prank.

Sunday News also reminded readers that Millie’s stepmum Mrs Holmes aka Deborah Hamilton has admitted to lesbian relationships. Like, you can “catch” lesbianism? Who knew it was contagious?

But, if you can catch it, then perhaps mum Hinemoa (Hine) Elder could be a bigger influence as she was rumoured to be in lesbian relationships prior to connecting with Millie’s biological Dad (not to be confused with papa Holmes who likes to be known as her Dad).

Meanwhile astrologer Don Murray, who has been busy spreading rumours that father Paul Holmes likes to indulge in puffing something other than cancer sticks, reckons there is more trouble ahead for Millie Elder nee Holmes nee Elder, papa Holmes and his wife.

Mille was, however, born to be extremely erotic and horny courtesy of a blissful Venus-Mars trine in her chart.BUT, some very serious afflictions from Saturn and co will ensure a lot of strife in close relationships and nothing like conjugal bliss until much later in life.

Next year's going to be even tougher for Millie Holmes than 2007 by a long stretch, with Pluto attacking that vulnerable Venus. Her adoptive father, enigmatic broadcaster Paul Holmes, is also copping a seriously difficult Pluto-Moon and his second wife, Deborah has the very destructive Pluto-Mars aspect in 2008.

Ooooooh, let’s hear it for Pluto. Sounds like the gossip magazines will need to budget for more “tell all” stories.

So what does Millie have to say about all this? Back in the days when she told you what she thought for free, she told Bits on the Side

millie // June 28, 2007 at 4:58 pm
omg its really nice to know what people really think, yeah i am taking all the blame cus..no im not a nark, fuck that, and the bacon.yeah i gave dana key cus he is a good guy, hope he is ok byt he way, he wasnt my boyfriend just my mate,same as ant. hope silly lil gurls hu really did like ant can save their net ti9me for sum vitisation time cus thats what he’d preffer!
smile

This gal won't win any spelling awards!

Millie continues to deny that she hid the P pipe in her panties, insisting she was just holding it close to her body when the police asked her to strip search.

Millie Holmes' Latest Addiction

Who needs P when you can bask in the glow of flashbulbs and indulge in the latest craze – the celebrity as wounded animal in recovery, sincerely apologetic and determined to mend their ways?

Apparently, Millie is sorry for hurting her family with her druggie ways, but not so sorry that she'd let it get in the way of earning a bit of dough with her "exclusive" stories of drug taking, lying, stealing and living with a sugar daddy. Nah, that won't hurt your family, petal.

Millie Holmes/Elder has traded drugs for the warm glow of the media spotlight. It seems the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree as Millie hopes to follow mother Hinemoa Elder and/or dad Paul Holmes into media. She’s off to a roaring start…

In years gone by there was the occasional father/daughter magazine cover, but now it seems a week does not go by without another “exclusive” interview from Millie and her latest addiction to the celebrity craze of spilling her beans on national television, newspapers and magazines. Funny given that she told Mark Sainsbury in their exclusive first television interview that she was unhappy with Paul Holmes for giving a statement outside the High Court. Remember the famous ‘Millie is sick’ statement? That didn’t go down at all well with Millie who said they had agreed to say nothing to the media

We are devastated by this, of course. If Millie has broken the law, she must pay the consequences. We love Millie very much and our whole family - the whole family - is working together to offer her our support.

Sunday Star Times reckons papa Paul Holmes is less than chuffed with Millie’s latest obsession, and her stories about her man James Mail and rehab mate Keita Nobilo in the papers. This from the man that received mucho dosh to have his “exclusive” wedding photos to wife Deborah splashed in the Australian Woman’s Weekly and has kept us regularly updated with every instalment of his life, from near death flying experiences, to prostate cancer, an affair with a woman who passed her knickers to him at a party, first wife Hine and current wife Deborah.


Surprisingly, the newspapers and magazines have little to say about Hine who has ducked out of the spotlight these days but does anyone else think it’s odd that mother Hine is a psychiatrist specialising in Maori youth addiction issues? Little is said about mother Hine in any of Millie’s interviews, although she is apparently very supportive and drives Millie to her ongoing daily outpatient treatment at Capri Trust. Seems like the least she could do...

According to Millie, stepmother Deborah is “the enforcer” in the family and is the one to step in and take an active role in setting boundaries, while papa Paul tends to be the permissive parent, or as Millie and Paul put it in one interview... he’s a pushover.

It was Deborah that confronted Millie about her behaviour when she was living at home with her and papa Paul, but Millie wasn’t having a bar of it. At that stage Millie had lost a lot of weight and was behaving erratically. Deborah told Millie she was being distant and acting strange and asked her what was going on, telling her “If you need help, just ask us.” Typical teen Millie said

“Stuff this. I’m leaving.”

So she packed her bags and took off, returning only to steal ipods, gameboys and anything else she could sell. She refused to tell Paul and Deborah where she was living, leaving Paul devastated when Millie had a car accident.

Last year a friend crashed her car; she was a passenger and high on drugs.

“I left it on the side of the road with every window smashed, undriveable. The police rang my dad: ‘Oh we think your daughter might be dead, we found her car’. Dad went mental, and couldn’t find me for two weeks.”

In the latest Woman’s Day interview, Millie says she was living with a ‘sugar daddy’. This is an upgrade from earlier stories where she told reporters that a 'close friend' provided her with free drugs.

According to Millie she never traded sex for drugs (is there a Tui billboard in that somewhere?) and instead put her name on a lease and allowed a drug dealer to be bailed to her home. In return for this wee favour he apparently provided her with the P that fuelled her $1,000 a day habit and some cash - presumably when she’d cleaned out papa Holmes’ house and there was nothing left that she could hock.

Millie said she was treated like a criminal (go figure), and was strip searched and fingerprinted before spending the night in a cell.

“You have to take off all your clothes slowly one at a time, like you’re fully exposed, it’s horrible. Then we had to squat on the floor and touch your toes with your legs apart. It’s horrible. It’s so demeaning. They don’t touch you but it’s horrid.”

“You had no privacy going to the toilet, and stuff like that.”

She said she took P because it made her feel more productive and she felt good when she took it, but she now knows she has to abstain from all drugs and alcohol as she believes she has a “brain disease” and is incapable of controlling herself and being a social drinker or druggie.

"I still think about P a lot, but I know if I pick it up, that will be it."

Millie continues to have regular drug tests to ensure she is “clean”. The results will be presented to the court at the time of her sentencing.

As to lover James Mail, that seems to be a moving target. On 28 October 2007 she told Herald on Sunday that the pair had been going out about a month. In this week’s Woman’s Day they’d known each other two months before moving in together. Apparently time is a fluid concept in Millie-land. They “like” each other very much but aren’t ready to say the “love” each other. Say what? Do you just go live with any man, Millie? It’s surprising more of her exes haven’t come out of the woodwork. So far rugby player Tino Patelesio is the only one to do a tell-all story, but the other ex friends and lovers can’t be far away from spilling the beans.

Millie says she regrets the pain she has caused her family and is on the road to recovery saying,

“I think I’ve learned a lot, grown a lot and I’m so much the wiser now.”

Yeah, right.


Sources: NZ Herald 21/10/2007, NZ Herald 28/10/2007, Woman's Day 02/07/2007, Woman's Day 12/11/2007, TV One Close Up 22/10/2007, Sunday Star Times 04/11/2007

Millie Holmes' Rehab Romance

Following in the footsteps of Hollywood couple Liz Taylor and Larry Fortensky, Millie Holmes has found love in rehab. Of course, we all know what happened to Liz and Larry so what are the chances that love can bloom for 19 year old Millie and 21 year old builder James Mail?

Well on the plus side they have a lot in common… they’re young, they’re ex druggies, both have a record of reckless driving, and both have been in jail.

Millie admitted to charges of drug taking in August this year, and after a month in the swanky Capri rehab facility says she’s off P, and also alcohol. She’s undertaking regular drug tests and returns to court for sentencing in December. Millie also appeared in court in September charged with careless driving after she lost control of her car in May 2007 and hit a power pole. She was fined $450.

James was imprisoned in Mt Eden remand centre after a high-speed police chase through Auckland. According to Sunday News, he has also been summoned to appear in court on theft charges

Police allege that on February 16, James stole a Valentine radar detector valued at $906 from a vehicle and that he stole a $499 Motorola cellphone from a car in May 2005.

Auckland District Court documents showed he was due to appear at the court in December on the two theft charges.

The pair met at a Narcotics’ Anonymous (NA) meeting and although they’ve only been going out for about a month they are already living together at James’ Onehunga home.

Which goes to show they weren’t paying attention in the NA meetings. One of the “rules” of AA, NA and the like is that you are not to form new romantic relationships within 12 months of going sober, or becoming abstinent from drugs; the theory being that compulsive/addictive personalities don’t tend to make wise decisions while battling with their newfound abstinence…

Millie hopes to get a job in media – perhaps she’d like to join our snarky happy blogging team? Apply now Millie!

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Keita and Millie’s P Bond

In true Hollywood fashion Keita Nobilo says she bonded with Millie Holmes during their rehab at the Capri Trust. Keita, who is described by New Zealand Herald as “a member of the Nobilo wines family dynasty” felt like giving up on life while on crystal meth (P).

Keita tells how unstable she was when she dated reality TV regular Matthew Ridge.

I have to give him credit for putting up with the insanity of my drug use … I was really erratic, very aggressive, very violent.

She recounts that during a fight she "revved the Beamer and just ran up the back of his Merc as hard as I could." She also booted out his front windscreen at the beginning of a psychotic episode which she blames on low B12 levels, despite this he turned up at the hospital to collect her and take her home.

Keita says that she’s determined to stay drug-free. Millie and Keita believe they can help others by publicising their story.

They're helping each other stay drug free by talking most days and finding their highs without drugs. They might also be comparing notes on the night they each spent in prison. Both are yet to be sentenced and could face further jail time...

Paul Holmes and Millie Elder in the News

It must be a slow news week. Make that a slow news month. It seems you can't open a paper or magazine without reading about the latest about Paul Holmes or his daughter . We dare not describe Millie as his adopted daughter after Paul The Gnome Holmes whinged about media qualifying every reference to Millie as his adopted daughter.

Paul Holmes snout in the trough to the tune of $1.2 million
Holmes will soon be back on our screens tomorrow night hosting Whatever Happened To...? In a move that defies explanation TVNZ has squandered more than $1.2 million of Charter money on this light entertainment comedy reminiscing over stars of bygone days. Puhleeze!

A very self-satisfied Paul Holmes has been in all the papers talking about the wonderful TVNZ family and his delight at returning to primetime television in a new role.

Blame the drug dealers
In the latest TV Guide Paul Holmes has been threatening to bulldoze all P dealers. This seems to ignore the fact that taking drugs is a choice. Just say no! After all Miss Prozac toddles into the supermarket and has a wee taste of the latest feta dips and a wee snifter or six of wine when it is on offer at New World. Does this mean we should be bulldozing Villa Maria for so kindly offering a weary shopper a wee pick-me-up? It's all about supply and demand, and while people are prepared to pay through the nose for drugs, there will always be a willing supplier.

Millie NZ's answer to Paris Hilton?
A tacky story from gossip Sunday Star Times columnist Bridget Saunders likens to Paris Hilton.

We have been waiting for a local Paris Hilton and now she’s arrived in our lives. Millie behaves atrociously, has access to pots of money and looks cute in pap snaps. That’s all it takes folks! As long as Millie doesn’t put on weight (that’s the only real crime in Celebrityville) she has the makings of a much needed local icon.

Crikey Bridge, give the girl a chance. She's young and she's had a couple of slip ups. Don't think she's quite ready to be tarnished with the Paris brush.

Millie's ex boyfriend
Last week's Woman's Day trotted out some rugby chap by the name of Tino Patelesio who dated Millie for five months two years ago. Apparently she was sweet and friendly and good until she hooked up with the wrong crowd. After that her behaviour became bizarre and unpredictable.

He allegedly broke up with her after she locked herself away in a hotel bathroom to smoke with two girlfriends. Being a manly man, rugby chap Tino kicked the door down and broke up with Millie. Nice one Tino. All the babes love that sort of thing.

Millie should never have been born?
According to astrologer Don Murray, the responsibility for Millie Holmes/Elder's drug problems lie squarely at the feet of her parents. Mother Hinemoa Elder for giving birth to Millie:

In astrological terms,Millie Holmes should never have been born.

For her arrival in May 1988 concurred with one of the lowest points in the life of her mother,Hinemoa Elder.

With Uranus and Saturn attacking her Jupiter in that month and nebulous Neptune doing same to her Sun,22-year-old Hinemoa was majorly depressed,much of it to do with a short-term relationship involving Millie's father.

He goes on to say:

With a Capricorn Moon, Hinemoa would have a natural shyness and a preference for a career and material success rather than motherhood.

Not sure how the natural shyness squares with Hinemoa's career as a television presenter, but it does seem rather ironic that a psychiatrist specialising in adolescent drug and alcohol addiction should fail to notice her own daughter's problems and take appropriate action to intervene before things got so out of hand.

Paul Holmes a bad father and junkie?
Paul Holmes is apparently guilty of absent fathering. More provocative opinions from Don Murray:

Paul chose to leave for work at 4-5 a.m for the radio and return home from his TV gig at 8-9 p.m.Paul chose to get his pilot's licence and own an aeroplane.Paul chose to work super hard and save for a farm in Hawkes Bay.And see so little of his two kids.

Not sure we agree with this oversimplistic account but we do wonder, where was The Gnome when his daughter was getting high and strung out on P?

Don suggests that part of the problem lies in the example papa Holmes has been providing to Millie, to wit suggestions that Paul Holmes may be a druggie after receiving mysterious packages delivered by a large white car with tinted windows. Miss Prozac has only ever seen The Gnome smoking cancer sticks so she doesn't know how much truth there is in this suggestion.

If you're thinking his name is familiar, Don Murray is the gent that forecast a win for New Zealand in the 2007 America's Cup, later explaining the failure of the team to lift the cup as being a misinterpretation of the charts, and surely winning the challengers' series was a success? He also predicted that the All Blacks won't win the 2007 World Cup. Updated... and he was right!

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Millie Elder's 5 Star Drug Rehab

Today's Sunday News confirms reports that Millie Holmes/Elder has been at a high-priced rehab facility to get help for her drug addiction.

The rehabilitation centre where Millie Elder is overcoming her P problems is a luxury facility many cannot afford it costs $4500 for the first two weeks and $15,000 for the full programme.

The centre has a sunny deck area overlooking a marina, a pool and spa, cosy communal lounge area and private rooms.

It seems that some think it is unfair that Millie's family can afford to send her to posh rehab facilities when the average Joe or Edwina has to go on a waiting list for publicly funded facilities or outpatient treatment. Aww, would ya quit with the jealousy! She needs all the help she can get. Yep, there are others missing out but that's no reason to come down on Millie.

On Monday, after admitting charges of possession of P, possession of a P pipe and allowing her Grey Lynn, Auckland, apartment to be used for drugs, the 19-year-old was last week spotted leaving the centre with other inpatients.

Police said they would not enter evidence on six other charges against the teenager which included receiving clothing stolen from high-end department store Smith & Caughey's and receiving a stolen plasma TV worth $18,000.