Paula Yates

The interviews were granted to journalist Martin Townsend after the death of Hutchence. Hutchence died in November 1997, aged 37. His death was ruled a suicide.

The couple had three children: Fifi, Peaches (who died in 2014 from a heroin overdose aged 25), and Pixie. It was ruled she died of an accidental heroin overdose. [Jools Holland](https://inews.co.uk/topic/jools-holland?ico=in-line_link) of the Channel 4 pop music programme, The Tube. In the interviews, Yates, who found fame presenting roles on The Tube and The Big Breakfast, “frankly and eloquently discusses the positives and pitfalls of her life”. [Robbie Williams ](https://inews.co.uk/topic/robbie-williams?ico=in-line_link)and [Grace Dent](https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/grace-dent-eighties-christmas-dinners-hungry-a-memoir-of-wanting-more-788859?ico=in-line_link). [Channel 4 documentary, Paula, will explore the life of the late TV presenter and journalist, Paula Yates.](https://inews.co.uk/culture/whats-on-tv-tonight-guide-listings-paula-yates-channel-4-2204543?ico=related_stories)

The upcoming programme will feature four previously unheard interviews with the late TV presenter and journalist, who died of an accidental heroin overdose in ...

[PAPYRUS](https://www.papyrus-uk.org/) Prevention of Young Suicide UK. His death was recorded as suicide by hanging One day prior to her death, she uploaded a picture on Instagram of her and her late mother along with the caption: ‘Me and my Mum.’ Yates and Bob struck up a romantic relationship in 1976 in the early days of The Boomtown Rats. She was also well-known for her marriage to Bob Geldof and her relationship with Michael Hutchence, the lead singer of the Australian rock band INXS. The coroner ruled that her death was not suicide, but a result of ‘foolish and incautious’ behaviour. Coroner Paul Knapman concluded that although the amount Yates had taken would not have killed an addict and added that ‘an unsophisticated taker of heroin’ like Yates had no tolerance to the drug. Yates was a popular television presenter and hosted shows such as The Tube and The Big Breakfast on Channel 4 during her career in television. Titled Paula, the documentary will look back at Yates’ career and the impact she made as she battled to ‘have it all’ while torn between the duties of family life and her own personal career and happiness while living in the spotlight. Who was Paula Yates and who was she married to? The upcoming programme will feature four previously unheard interviews with the late TV presenter and journalist, who died of an accidental heroin overdose in September 2000 at the age of 41. Paula Yates’ life and death is set to be put under the microscope in Channel 4’s two-part documentary starting on Monday night.

This documentary explores how Yates' career was overshadowed by personal battles and relationships with Sir Bob Geldof and Michael Hutchence.

What a contrast between the vivacious Yates of old and this broken figure. Flirting was her stock-in-trade but she was no bimbo. [behaviour of the press](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2023/03/06/george-michael-outed-channel-4-review-how-popstar-took-back/). For the rest of us, though, who remember Yates blazing a trail through the 1980s and 1990s, it was a celebration of one of television’s great presenters. [INXS frontman Michael Hutchence](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/0/michael-hutchence-paula-yates-should-have-perfect-couple-instead/), there was a nasty custody battle, Hutchence took his life in a Sydney hotel room a year after their baby was born. Nobody under the age of 35 will have watched Paula with anything more than mild interest.

On September 17 2000, on daughter Pixie's 10th birthday, Paula was found dead at her home in Notting Hill at the age of 41 of a heroin overdose. The coroner ...

Paula was discovered in the presence of her then-four-year-old daughter, Tiger Lily. The coroner ruled that it was not a suicide, but a result of "foolish and incautious" behaviour. During her time with Michael, she also welcomed a child in 1996 called Tiger Lily. The programmes will centre on four “extraordinarily compelling” interviews, recorded in 1998 and 1999 shortly before her death and have never been seen before. The documentary will also include testimonies from her close friends and former colleagues. It's 23 years this year since the tragic death of Paula Yates.

TV presenter Hughie Green, who rose to fame with Opportunity Knocks, on ITV, was revealed to be the late Paula Yates' biological father after his death from ...

I thought I was at the darkest point in my life - now this.' His life was ruined by his parents by the time he was 14,' he added. Following his separation from his wife, Hughie had affairs and became addicted to alcohol. Bob legally adopted Tiger Lily in 2007 Paula died in 2000 He was a weak man. Hughie met his first wife, Montreal socialite Claire Wilson, in the mid-30s when they were teenagers. It continued airing in Grenada and Yorkshire until 1974, when Hughie had a falling out with producer Jess Yates. We can't walk away from Paula Yates. Hughie Green, who died in May 1997 aged 77, reigned supreme on ITV from 1955 to 1978 thanks to his show Opportunity Knocks. He was homophobic. Who was Paula Yates' biological father Hughie Green?

The Big Breakfast star, who was married to INXS singer Michael Hutchence, lost her life after a heroin overdose, aged 41. Tragically, the mum-of-four was found ...

“By November 2013 she (Peaches) had ceased to take heroin after considerable efforts of treatment and counselling. "I woke up crying about everything and nothing. Why do I feel like this," In 2014, just months after the death of her sister Peaches, Paula's eldest child gave her first ever interview to share her story with depression with the In the hours leading up to her death, the former socialite posted a picture of herself and Paula on "By November last year she had ceased to take heroin as a result of the considerable treatment and counselling that she had received.

In her heyday, Paula Yates was second only to Princess Diana in the top tier of UK celebs. This documentary shows why everyone fell for her – and why she ...

That said, there can be no question that the media pursuit that cast her as the scarlet woman (and later “Suicide Blonde” as the advance obituary accidentally sent to her by a redtop after Hutchence’s death was headlined) and Geldof as “Saint Bob” was intolerable. The poisonous standards of the time are most clearly seen in the reporting of her affair with Terence Trent d’Arby (a preternaturally calm and gracious interviewee in the first hour): “Bob’s Paula Caught with Black Star,” screamed one headline. Such overtly racist headlines may be a thing of the past but, as we have seen in films about more recent high-profile women such as Amy Winehouse, Britney Spears and Pamela Anderson, a similar purge of misogyny seems to be taking a lot longer. It offers a simplified narrative and presents tabloid pressures as the single Big Bad affecting a complicated person living a rollercoaster of a life. The first instalment traces her rise from rock journalist and columnist to television star, as the inaugural presenter with Jools Holland of The Tube, which started in 1982; then becoming Bob Geldof’s girlfriend and wife, bearing three children; then infamously leaving Geldof for INXS frontman Michael Hutchence. At first the idea of a documentary about Yates seems somewhere between pointless and exploitative.

Paula Yates has been described as one of the most famous females in England during her life alongside Princess Diana.

The second episode of the documentary airs at the same time on Tuesday 14 March. Yates was found dead at her home in Notting Hill at the age of 41 after a heroin overdose. Yates was well known for her ‘On the Bed’ interviews in the 1990s which featured a number of stars from the time including Kylie Minogue. Yates also released a cover of Nancy Sinatra’s hit song These Boots Are Made For Walking in 1982. Paula Yates was a well known British TV presenter and writer. [Channel 4 programme](https://www.nationalworld.com/culture/television/charles-bronson-prisoner-channel-4-documentary-parole-4045235) focuses on four previously unheard interviews with Yates, which were recorded in the months leading up to her death in 2000.

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Paula Yates flirted with everybody. No man was immune - though often, all she wanted to do was see them blush.

And tucking into a Yorkshire Pudding at the Mother Shipton Inn in Knaresborough, he reassured us that this wasn’t one of his ‘no-carbs days’. Jonathan Ross, whose career as an interviewer on Ch4 started at around the same time as Paula’s, was branching out to try a travelogue, exploring Britain’s folklore on Myths And Legends (More4). In fact, Hislop went on to taunt Paula about her autobiography: ‘I gather it took you six days to write this book. The basis of this documentary is a series of taped interviews she gave to magazine editor Martin Townsend. The headline was Suicide Blonde — the title of a song by Hutchence’s band INXS. By coincidence, the shows follow a one-off documentary, broadcast by rival Channel 5 at the weekend, on presenter Hughie Green .

Speaking in a new Channel 4 documentary on the troubled life of the presenter, her close friend Belinda Brewin revealed the Princess of Wales liked when the ...

all of those things, when she got into her late 30s, they were no longer attractive to lots and lots and lots of men.' Paula Yates (pictured in 1996 with her partner Michael Hutchence and their daughter, Heavenly Haraani Tiger Lily) revealed in previously unheard tapes that she was inclined to drop her 'stupid girly tricks' after meeting the lead singer of INXS, after which time the 'need to flirt evaporated'. She says: 'I'd probably changed a lot when I was with Michael because once I was with him, the need to flirt - which had been the cornerstone of my personality, certainly the thing I was most famous for - evaporated. Belinda described how the scrutiny became even worse for Paula just weeks later when a DNA test revealed her father was not Jess Yates, but Hughie Green. He recalled feeling jealous that Yates might 'fancy' Jason Orange and thinking to himself: 'Don't fancy Jason'. you can feel all the time this pain,' she says. Paula didn't really learn to live with it, that was the problem. Pictured with King Charles, then Prince of Wales and Bob Geldof during the 1985 Live Aid concert at Wembley stadium I was kind of curious what it would be like working again without all that stuff.' 'I don't think people do, they just learn to live with it. 'It literally does feel like someone's punched you or broken something you know? Later in the interview she revealed in heartbreaking detail the 'physical pain' of losing Michael and recalled how she tucked in his body with a duvet when she went to see him in the mortuary, while commenting on how the press and the public were expecting her not to make it through her grief.