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Branigan, Tania (9 November 2000). "TV star killed by heroin 'binge' ". The Guardian . Retrieved 19 January 2023. NOTE* Special 'Story Of The Skids' Book Launch) SOLD OUT! BUT- extra signings are also now at 3pm-5pm I am sure her divorce from Bob Geldof was not pleasant, but she was already with someone else by that time so that would have softened the blow,'' he said. Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.

She hopes that future generations will remember Yates not for how she died but for how she lived; for being “hilarious, sexy, cheeky and chatty”. Yates was, she says, a proper trailblazer. “She paved the way for half these girls today who probably don’t even know who she is.” An amazing evening of "Songs & Stories" (with Q&A) by two artists with over 110 years in the arts between them. 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.

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. Yates and Hutchence's daughter, Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily was born in August 1996. Yates was said to be gloriously happy with her new life, but her relationship with Geldof remained acrimonious and, following her arrest for alleged drug offences two months later, he won temporary custody of their three children. Yates said later that she felt like the victim of a witch hunt: "Bob is still perceived as St Bob, and me as his wayward wife." 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.

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. 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.

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 Branigan, Tania (9 November 2000). "TV star killed by heroin 'binge' ". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 13 April 2014 . Retrieved 25 June 2020. 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 ] She had an in-depth knowledge about everything,” Brewin tells The Telegraph on a video call from Florida, where she is working as head chef on a yacht. “It didn’t matter what you were talking about, she knew it. She read voraciously. But then we’d sit in bed sometimes and watch [US talk show] Jerry Springer when it first came out and laugh at everyone else’s soap opera of a life. Until hers turned into one.” 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.

Yeates, Cydney (13 March 2023). "What happened to Paula Yates? Inside The Tube star's tragic death". Metro . Retrieved 14 March 2023.Historic Deganwy Castle hotel closes its doors". BBC News. 11 January 2010. Archived from the original on 9 April 2018 . Retrieved 8 April 2018. Drama – Hughie Green, Most Sincerely". BBC. Archived from the original on 11 November 2012 . Retrieved 25 February 2012. Satrkey, Arun (23 March 2022). "The star-crossed relationship of Michael Hutchence and Paula Yates". Far Out Magazine . Retrieved 14 March 2023.

Yates, battling mental health and addiction issues, sought psychiatric treatment following the death of Hutchence which resulted in her ex-husband Geldof securing full custody of the couple’s three daughters. “When Michael died I was tipped over the edge,” Yates once said. “I was beyond grief.” Devastatingly, just a couple of years later, on her daughter Pixie’s 10th birthday, some 20 years ago today, Yates died at her home in London of an accidental heroin overdose on September 17, 2000. 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. On 17 September 2000, on Pixie's 10th birthday, Yates died at her home in Notting Hill at the age of 41 of a heroin overdose. The coroner ruled that it was not a suicide, but a result of "foolish and incautious" behaviour. [28] [29] Yates was discovered in the presence of her then-four-year-old daughter, Tiger Lily. [30] 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. [32]But it is her indomitable spirit that people remember, and her wholeheartedness in life and love. Paula Yates was a survivor. In a magazine interview last year, she said: "It's only the mothering instinct that makes you willing to suffer every day. I know it sounds like a Victorian novel, but it's true. Right now, I still think living is a noble gesture." 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. These Boots Are Made for Walkin' ". Secondhandsongs.com. Archived from the original on 13 October 2007 . Retrieved 25 February 2012. Paula Elizabeth Yates (24 April 1959 – 17 September 2000) was a Welsh television presenter and writer. Yates is best known for her work on two television programmes, The Tube and The Big Breakfast. She was subjected to intense media attention and scrutiny, owing to her popularity and her relationships with musicians Bob Geldof and Michael Hutchence. Ramsdale, Suzannah (13 March 2023). "Paula on Channel 4 review: The sad, but familiar, tale of how a unique talent lost her way". Evening Standard . Retrieved 14 March 2023.