Rock Stars in Their Underpants

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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”. Yeates, Cydney (13 March 2023). "What happened to Paula Yates? Inside The Tube star's tragic death". Metro . Retrieved 14 March 2023.

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.” Geldof and Yates divorced in May 1996. On 22 July 1996, Yates gave birth to a daughter, Tiger Lily Hiraani Hutchence. [20] On 22 November 1997, Hutchence was found dead in a hotel room in Sydney. The official verdict into his death said that he committed suicide by hanging. [21] Yates wrote in her police statement that Hutchence was "frightened and couldn't stand a minute more without his baby". During their phone conversations on the morning of his suicide, he had said, "I don't know how I'll live without Tiger". Yates also wrote that Geldof had threatened them repeatedly, saying: "Don't forget, I am above the law." [22] Yates became distraught, refusing to accept the coroner's verdict of suicide and insisting that it was a case of auto-erotic asphyxiation. [23] She eventually sought psychiatric treatment. Here's what Princess Diana told Paula Yates in a heart-breaking confession about life in spotlight". International News. 16 March 2023 . Retrieved 19 March 2023. 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."The news that former TV favourite Hughie Green, below, had fathered her would also have taken its toll, said Dr Sheppard. 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. An amazing evening of "Songs & Stories" (with Q&A) by two artists with over 110 years in the arts between them. After a brief foray into music journalism, in 1982 she began co-presenting Channel 4's cutting-edge music show The Tube, with pianist Jools Holland. Two years later, she wrote and presented another Channel 4 series, Baby, Baby, which involved interviews with mothers. Each day she would say to me, ‘I don’t know how I’m going to get through this day,’ says Brewin. “But she did, and she said, ‘I have to for my children, I couldn’t bear to be without them.’ There was never any question she was going to keep putting one foot in front of the other. She loved those girls so much. She didn’t want her loneliness to affect them.”

Hodgson, Michael (6 November 2000). "The Paula I knew". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 9 April 2018 . Retrieved 9 April 2018. Mangan, Lucy (13 March 2023). "Paula review – a glorious celebration of the most witty, flirty woman to ever grace our TVS". The Guardian. 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 her autobiography, she revealed that she felt unloved and unwanted and that a particular misery was being made to sit on a wooden box listening to Jess Yates playing hymns on an organ. Her experiments with sex and drugs began while she was a teenager - as her parents' marriage fell apart. Drama – Hughie Green, Most Sincerely". BBC. Archived from the original on 11 November 2012 . Retrieved 25 February 2012. Heroin overdose killed Yates". BBC News. 8 November 2000. Archived from the original on 5 March 2009 . Retrieved 22 May 2010.