McCartney: I didn't have angioplasty
NEW YORK - Paul McCartney says recent media reports that he had a heart procedure last year are "entirely untrue."
"People are ringing and texting me saying, `Are you OK?'" he writes in a posting on his newly redesigned Web site. "I hadn't seen the report so I was puzzled by so many enquiries about my health. So I think it's a good time to put this rumour to rest."
The 65-year-old ex-Beatle says that during a routine medical examination over a year ago, "there was a minor irregularity which I needed to have tests for and which I have now been assured is completely fine."
Recent media reports "completely distorted the story, calling it an angioplasty, which is entirely untrue, and this is why so many friends have been concerned about my health," he writes.
Angioplasty is a procedure to check and clear clogged arteries in the heart.
"I am happy to say that I feel great and I have passed my most recent medical with flying colours."
McCartney, who is nominated for a Grammy Award for his latest album, "Memory Almost Full," says he wants to assure friends and family that he's in good health.
He adds: "I have secretly been enjoying all the sympathy I've been getting!"
Bond to wed in new 007 film?
British actress Gemma Arterton has hinted that James Bond may get married in the upcoming 007 movie, "Quantum of Solace."
The 22-year-old star told a reporter that she and Daniel Craig had been filming scenes in a honeymoon suite for the film.
The surprised journalist asked: "Honeymoon suite?", prompting Arterton to reply: "I think I've said too much."
The actress plays an MI6 agent working at the British consulate in Bolivia in the new Bond film.
It would be the second marriage for Bond -- the spy got hitched in the 1969 movie "On Her Majesty's Service."
"Quantum of Solace" is scheduled to hit theatres in November.