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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. She loved those girls so much’: Yates with Geldof and their daughters during a visit to Euro Disney in 1992

The news that former TV favourite Hughie Green, below, had fathered her would also have taken its toll, said Dr Sheppard. Clinton, Jane (13 March 2023). "Paula Yates: How Channel 4 documentary explores her life, death, and relationship with Michael Hutchence". iNews . 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.In 1992, she moved from night to daytime television, and began presenting Channel 4's Big Breakfast show, made by Geldof's production company, Planet 24. It was her speciality to conduct celebrity interviews from a bed, and it was there that she met the Australian musician Michael Hutchence, then lead singer with the band INXS, whom she described as "God's gift to women". 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. Forgotten the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Visit BookSleuth 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. However, it was as co-host, with Jools Holland, of Channel 4's groundbreaking music show The Tube, in 1982 that Yates made her name.

Mangan, Lucy (13 March 2023). "Paula review – a glorious celebration of the most witty, flirty woman to ever grace our TVs". The Guardian . Retrieved 14 March 2023. Yates’s interviews with pop stars on the bed in The Big Breakfast are the stuff of entertainment legend. Anarchic yet seductive, she snuggled up to a string of stars and coaxed their secrets from them. It’s hard to imagine anything like it featuring in the more sanitised breakfast television landscape today. Brewin says a celebrity like her wouldn’t exist today “because everyone’s so serious and vain”.An only child, Yates wrote that, as a girl, she would sleep outside her mother's door in case she left in the night. The man she believed to be her father, the one-time presenter of Yorkshire Television's religious programme, Stars On Sunday, Jess Yates, left the family when Paula was eight, and her mother later admitted to a string of affairs. Silverman, Rosa (13 March 2023). "Paula Yates: the untold story by the woman who knew her best". The Telegraph . Retrieved 14 March 2023.

This book of Polaroid photos from 1980 is splendid. It’s a bit short on words but if I’m honest I didn’t buy it for the words. That said, Paul Gambaccini, Peter Cook and Paula Yates write amusing introductions. 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.Yet in April this year, with the approach of her 40th she said; ''I think the worst is definitely over'', as she embarked on a new career move as agony aunt for a new magazine, Aura. In May 1996, the Geldofs' marriage ends in a divorce which had been a bitter contest until agreement was reached with a public statement on shared custody and continued good relations. They swopped homes, with Yates, heavily pregnant with Hutchence's child, returning to her old matrimonial house in Chelsea, while Geldof moved into Hutchence's home 270 yards away. Had Paula lived, Brewin believes she would have done more serious television. She may well have blown the whistle on the darker goings-on of the time. “She was interested in things like the way women were treated. She would have loved the #MeToo movement, that would have been right up her street.” 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] These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience – the local community.