Rock Stars in Their Underpants

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Apart from writing the number one (in 12 countries) chart song "The Saints Are Coming" Richard has directed 6 movies and hosted the Film Show for MTV. He has met the great the good (and the bad) in Hollywood and the music industry. Yates’s self-destructive behaviour worsened for a time. “Mainly drinking,” says Brewin. But when she took the heroin that killed her on September 17 2000 – Pixie’s 10th birthday – it was the first time she had used illegal drugs in almost two years. Her inquest heard that the amount she took would not have been enough to kill her had she been an addict, and suicide was ruled out. It was, said the coroner, a “foolish and incautious” binge.

Edmonds, Lizzie (3 March 2021). "Rupert Everett discusses affair with Paula Yates in latest episode of Piers Morgan's Life Stories". Evening Standard . Retrieved 14 March 2023.The saving of Geldof's soul". The Independent. Ireland. 4 March 2013. Archived from the original on 9 April 2018 . Retrieved 8 April 2018. 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”.

If Yates’s on-screen persona was as a largely unserious provocateur, the real Paula was deeply sincere, even shy, says Brewin, who characterises her as a mixture of Mary Poppins and Marilyn Monroe. The Poppins side of Yates was capable of being scandalised when others took her on-screen image as a green light for saying whatever they wanted to her. The first episode of the documentary garnered 970,000 viewers, beating that night's BBC2 and Channel 5 offerings. [46] Filmography [ edit ] Selected credits [ edit ] Year 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. 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]

In 1996, their daughter, Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily, was born. Despite Paula's claims that the couple were to have been married in January 1998, close Australian friends have said that was never on Hutchence's agenda.Can you tell us more about this person? Spotted an error, information that is missing (a sitter’s life dates, occupation or family relationships, or a date of portrait for example) or do you know anything that we don't know? If you have information to share please complete the form below. Drama – Hughie Green, Most Sincerely". BBC. Archived from the original on 11 November 2012 . Retrieved 25 February 2012. Lane, Harriet (6 August 2000). "Mommie dearest". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 28 April 2019 . Retrieved 8 April 2018. Branigan, Tania (9 November 2000). "TV star killed by heroin 'binge' ". The Guardian . Retrieved 19 January 2023. Silverman, Rosa (13 March 2023). "Paula Yates: the untold story by the woman who knew her best". The Telegraph . Retrieved 14 March 2023.

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. In December 1997, a few weeks after Hutchence's death and while Yates was fighting for custody of her daughter with Hutchence, Yates suffered another blow when a DNA test result confirmed tabloid media reports that Jess Yates, who had died in April 1993, was not her biological father. A paternity test proved that the talent show host Hughie Green, who had died six months before Hutchence, was her biological father. [24] Her separation from Bob Geldof is likely to have been terribly painful, not in the least because it was so highly publicised. Satrkey, Arun (23 March 2022). "The star-crossed relationship of Michael Hutchence and Paula Yates". Far Out Magazine . Retrieved 14 March 2023.

Manson), The Skids, The Rezillos and others. He has supported the likes of Blondie, The Ramones & Stiff Little Fingers. In June 1998, Geldof won full custody of the couple's three daughters after Yates attempted suicide. [25] She met Kingsley O'Keke during her stay in treatment, but the pair broke up after a six-week romance. O'Keke later sold his story to a tabloid newspaper. [26] [27] Death [ edit ] Yeates, Cydney (13 March 2023). "What happened to Paula Yates? Inside The Tube star's tragic death". Metro . Retrieved 14 March 2023. 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. 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.