They felt they could say things to her that were kind of sassy, and she’d go to me: ‘Did you hear what he said? A friend disclosed during the inquest that Yates had not taken illegal drugs for nearly two years, [31] and the coroner, Paul Knapman, concluded that although the amount Yates had taken would not have killed an addict, "an unsophisticated taker of heroin" like Yates had no tolerance to the drug. Yates described her childhood as lonely and isolated; her mother, she claimed, was absent for much of her upbringing. And also, I think it s more of a shock factor to have tiny Tim Wheeler doing it rather than anyone else in the band.

So, on to the snapshots; Ted Nugent wins the oddest underwear award, Lemmy’s smalls are red and jolly, Phil Lynott has chosen purple pants to protect his plums, Rod Stewart gives us a flash of pubes, whether we like it or not, we get two great shots of Rick Parfitt, and four of Jools Holland who looks secure in his snazzily patterned briefs. She has been divorced, had someone dear to her commit suicide, and discovered her real father was not the man who brought her up. 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. In February she left Geldof for Hutchence, describing him as ''God's gift to women'' and ensuring instant and recurring attention from the tabloids for the INXS frontman who was regarded in Britain as having seduced Paula Yates away from ''Saint'' Bob Geldof.These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience – the local community. We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers.

Yates may have come up with a style that was all her own, but she was born into the entertainment industry – albeit in Colwyn Bay, Wales. She was to have five residential visits during which she met several young men she later dated, including Scots rock star Finlay Quaye.In a blaze of tabloid publicity, she left Geldof for Hutchence a year later, and in 1996, amidst an even bigger blaze of tabloid publicity, the couple were divorced. Don t get me wrong Tim, Rick and Mark are fine strapping lads in their prime, but only the most optimistic of marketing heads could have ever pegged these young pups as the Norn Iron version of 5ive. She posed naked in London's Reform Club for Penthouse magazine, and published a book of photographs under the title Rock Stars In Their Underpants, which was described by Andy Warhol as "the greatest work of art in the last decade".

Born on 24 April 1959 [1] in Colwyn Bay, Wales, to English parents, Yates was brought up in a show business family. After ten years together, Yates and Geldof married on 31 August 1986 in Las Vegas, with Simon Le Bon of Duran Duran acting as best man.Despite the verdict of suicide, Paula insisted that her lover had died as a result of auto-erotic asphyxiation which had gone wrong.