Paula begins this week spending some time with her friends. They want to go to an Oscar event so she takes them along to a gift boutique. On the way Paula explains that when she's busy she gets in trouble with her neck injury. She tells of having 14 spinal surgeries as well as plates in her neck and admits it's a hard thing to talk about. However, Paula's friend Jill has been through it with her, so it's "less daunting" and she feels "less isolated", after all "neck problems are by far the worst pain you can ever go through."
Paula has also decided to have part of her house renovated and temporarily moves into a rental house. The house is unfurnished so she has hired a designer to capture her essence. As she is spending time with her friends Paula loses track of time and gives Daniel, her make-up artist and best friend, the go ahead to pick everything out for the new house. Having looked at the designer’s previous work Daniel is convinced that they won’t have a problem and the designer says they "have never had a client that said 'we don’t like that.''
Due to her tough career as a dancer Paula has rheumatoid arthritis and later in theday is administered an injection to help take the edge off the pain. Paula is told that "it burns, it hurts and you may scream."
When the rental house is finished Paula goes to investigate and looks thoroughly unimpressed with the results - shaking her head she could not look more unhappy. "You've got to be kidding me with my bedroom, like I always wanted to have a white painted bird cage. They're freaky. I always think there's going to be a stuffed animal that has blood dripping out of its mouth. I can’t even look at it."
To take her mind off the house Paula pays a visit to her physician, Dr Rice, at the Life Wellness Institute in San Diego. His team of specialists can perform "pretty much miracles." She explains to one: "when I fell over my dog I really hurt myself." Paula is nervous to find out Dr Rice's analysis. He concludes: "I think we can see clearly from here (the x-ray) that Simon (Cowell) is the major cause."
Upon her return home Paula gets back down to business and has her assistant dial her designer. "You did know that this is supposed to be my house and look like I live here?" she asks. Daniel, who loved the house, looks on with a worried expression, particularly when Paula wants to know why the designer didn’t get more of a sense of her style from the pictures Daniel took to the house. Flash back to an earlier scene at the house in which Daniel had no such pictures.
Finally, Paula decides to hold off on the renovation and cancel the rental house.
Friday 7 March 2008 11:00pm - 11:30pm on ITV2.

