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Yates described her childhood as lonely and isolated; her mother, she claimed, was absent for much of her upbringing. [5] She attended a village primary school, Penrhos College, and Ysgol Aberconwy. The Yates family ran the Deganwy Castle Hotel for a time, [6] before moving to a house near Conwy. After the break-up of her parents' marriage in 1975, Yates lived mostly with her mother despite having a closer relationship with her father, and also had periods in Malta and Mallorca where she was a pupil at Bellver International College, before returning to Britain. [ citation needed] Career [ edit ] Pearce, Tilly (3 March 2021). "Rupert Everett 'felt no guilt' having six-year affair with Paula Yates during her marriage to Bob Geldof". Metro . Retrieved 14 March 2023. Branigan, Tania (9 November 2000). "TV star killed by heroin 'binge' ". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 13 April 2014 . Retrieved 11 April 2014.

An amazing evening of "Songs & Stories" (with Q&A) by two artists with over 110 years in the arts between them. Silverman, Rosa (13 March 2023). "Paula Yates: the untold story by the woman who knew her best". The Telegraph . Retrieved 14 March 2023.Hodgson, Michael (6 November 2000). "The Paula I knew". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 9 April 2018 . Retrieved 9 April 2018. The woman once described as "a smart girl who made a career out of pretending to be an airhead" was said to have spiralled into despair; lonely, afraid of the future, and nursing an increasingly fractured sense of self. She was devastated when Hutchence was found hanged by his belt in a hotel room in Sydney in November 1997. She refused to accept the inquest verdict of suicide, insisting that Hutchence must have died when a sexual game of autoerotic asphyxiation went wrong. Meanwhile, following the startling public revelation of Yates's true paternity in May 1997, DNA tests confirmed that Hughie Green was her real father, although she had been conceived within weeks of her mother's marriage to Jess. As one friend observed at the time: "In the space of a month, Paula has lost her future, and her past." Brewin recalls arriving at Yates’s house one day and finding Martin Bashir, the BBC presenter whose 1995 Panorama interview with Princess Diana was later found by an inquiry to have been obtained in a “deceitful” way. “[He was] saying she needed consoling,” says Brewin. “She was distraught after Michael had died… and there was [Martin] cooking food [in her house].” Brewin says that she told Bashir to get out. “He said, ‘Oh no, she needs looking after.’”

Manson), The Skids, The Rezillos and others. He has supported the likes of Blondie, The Ramones & Stiff Little Fingers. Given what we now know of the permissiveness, the lasciviousness of 20th-century showbiz culture, it feels grimly unsurprising that Yates would have had her own stories to share. Brewin remembers her talking about one man in television, whom she described as a “disgusting old lech”, and whom she would have to tell to behave himself. “I think there was a lot of it,” says Brewin. Yeates, Cydney (13 March 2023). "What happened to Paula Yates? Inside The Tube star's tragic death". Metro . Retrieved 14 March 2023. After an itinerant childhood, overshadowed by abandonment and infidelity, Yates claimed to have experimented with sex and heroin at an early age. She left school at 16, and moved to London, where she became involved in the emerging punk scene. Besotted with Bob Geldof, then the lead singer of the Boomtown Rats, after meeting him at a party, she followed the band around on tour before beginning a relationship with him. The pair eventually married in Las Vegas in 1986, having been together for 10 years.n Paula Yates had ridden a ''rollercoaster'' of emotions in recent years, dealing with more trauma than most people deal with in a lifetime, a family psychologist said yesterday. Yates's lippy, ludicrous public image made her an easy target for derision. She loved the spotlight, and her fame by association. Anonymity never suited her. She was vulgar, irrepressible and eccentric, and, in many ways, represented all that is silly and vacuous about modern celebrity. Paula Yates, the enigmatic television presenter and writer, rose to prominence as a music journalist with a column called ‘Natural Blonde’ before going on to present Channel 4 music show The Tube alongside Jools Holland. I thought I was at the darkest point in my life – now this' ". BBC News. 13 December 1997 . Retrieved 19 January 2023.

In 1979, Yates began her career as a music journalist with a column called "Natural Blonde" in the Record Mirror, shortly after posing for Penthouse magazine. She first came to prominence in the 1980s, as co-presenter (with Jools Holland) of the Channel 4 pop music programme The Tube, having been a minor co-host of BBC TV chat shows with presenter Terry Wogan. She also appeared alongside her friend Jennifer Saunders in 1987 for a spoof documentary on pop group Bananarama. [ citation needed] Agar, Gerry (2014). Paula, Michael and Bob: Everything You Know Is Wrong. Michael O'Mara Books. ISBN 978-1-78243-315-6.

These things are not even easy to deal with in private, so having to go through something like that in the public eye would be more traumatic. Whether she was a stable person or not, I can't say. But I suspect she was not.'' Soon after Yates's death, Geldof assumed foster custody of Tiger Lily so that she could be brought up with her three older half-sisters, Fifi, Peaches and Pixie. Her aunt, Tina Hutchence, the sister of Michael Hutchence, was denied permission by the judge to apply for Tiger Lily to live with her in California. [33] In 2007, Geldof adopted Tiger Lily and changed her surname to Geldof; [34] as of 2019, Tiger's legal name was Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily Hutchence Geldof. [35] Michael Hutchence planned to leave Paula Yates before death, Kirk Pengilly says". The Sydney Morning Herald. 24 February 2014. Archived from the original on 9 April 2018 . Retrieved 8 April 2018. Geldof and Yates divorced in May 1996. On 22 July 1996, Yates gave birth to a daughter, Tiger Lily Hiraani Hutchence. [20] Singh, Anita (13 March 2023). "Paula Yates was charismatic, irreverent, sexy and smart – so why did the tabloids hound her?". The Telegraph . Retrieved 14 March 2023.

Peaches Geldof: Writer and TV presenter dies aged 25". BBC News. 7 April 2014. Archived from the original on 5 May 2018 . Retrieved 9 April 2018. Yates was born in Colwyn Bay, and brought up in the north Wales village of Rowen, near Llandudno. It was not a happy experience. In her autobiography, she described her mother, the former Bluebell dancer and actress Hélène Thornton-Bosment, as being "absent" for large portions of her childhood. Ramsdale, Suzannah (13 March 2023). "Paula on Channel 4 review: The sad, but familiar, tale of how a unique talent lost her way". Yahoo and Evening Standard . Retrieved 14 March 2023. Bozza, Anthony (2005). INXS Story To Story: The Official Autobiography. Bantam Books. ISBN 978-0-593-05517-5.Williams, Zoe (15 March 2023). "It's a good time to think again about Paula Yates. She was the other Diana: hounded by the press for being herself". The Guardian . Retrieved 21 March 2023.