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. 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.”

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. 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. Bozza, Anthony (2005). INXS Story To Story: The Official Autobiography. Bantam Books. ISBN 978-0-593-05517-5.Geldof and Yates divorced in May 1996. On 22 July 1996, Yates gave birth to a daughter, Tiger Lily Hiraani Hutchence. [20] 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.''

Silverman, Rosa (13 March 2023). "Paula Yates: the untold story by the woman who knew her best". The Telegraph . Retrieved 14 March 2023. Brewin recalls arriving at Yates’s house one day and finding Martin Bashir, the BBC presenter whose 1995 Panorama interview with Princess Diana was later found by an inquiry to have been obtained in a “deceitful” way. “[He was] saying she needed consoling,” says Brewin. “She was distraught after Michael had died… and there was [Martin] cooking food [in her house].” Brewin says that she told Bashir to get out. “He said, ‘Oh no, she needs looking after.’” Ramsdale, Suzannah (13 March 2023). "Paula on Channel 4 review: The sad, but familiar, tale of how a unique talent lost her way". Yahoo and Evening Standard . Retrieved 14 March 2023. 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]Yates loses custody battle". BBC News. 28 October 1998. Archived from the original on 25 February 2013 . Retrieved 22 May 2010. 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. 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 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] 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.

It was a stance - in which she used a television programme to plead her cause a la Diana - which dashed much of the public sympathy which followed the double blow of her lover's death and the revelation about her parentage.Agar, Gerry (2014). Paula, Michael and Bob: Everything You Know Is Wrong. Michael O'Mara Books. ISBN 978-1-78243-315-6. 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." Gilbert, Gerard (13 March 2023). "Paula, Channel 4, review: This documentary should have dug deeper than old TV clips". I . Retrieved 21 March 2023. People spoke to her in the manner in which she appeared on television. They felt they could say things to her that were kind of sassy, and she’d go to me: ‘Did you hear what he said?’” Whilst married to Geldof, Yates had a year-long affair with American singer Terence Trent D'Arby. [13] [14] She had a six-year long affair with actor Rupert Everett. [15] [16] She also had an affair with Michael Hutchence of INXS, which finally led to the divorce between Paula and Bob.