Paula Yates

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Paula Elizabeth Yates (born  April 24, 1959 in Colwyn Bay , Wales , †  September 17, 2000 in London ) was a British television presenter. She was the wife of Bob Geldof .

Professional life

Yates got her first television experience in 1982 when she hosted the music show The Tube on the newly founded television station Channel 4 . During the first season of 1982-83, Yates was pregnant with their first daughter. In the early 1980s, it was a novelty in Great Britain for a music show to be led by a pregnant presenter. Conservative British publicly called for Yates to be dismissed, believing that Yates, with her big belly, could be a "negative example" for adolescents and would favor teenage pregnancies.

In the early 1990s, Yates was one of the hosts of the breakfast television show The Big Breakfast on Channel 4. The show was produced by Bob Geldof. The Big Breakfast was produced in a normal home and not in a television studio. The co-moderators conducted the program in the living room and in the garden of the house. Yates himself had a kind of boudoir on the upper floor of the house . Her part of the show was called In Bed With Paula . Yates was lying in bed - optionally wearing a duvet jacket, lace nightgown, dressing gown, etc. - and asked the celebrities invited on the show to go to bed with her for the interview. Yates always tried not only to interview her guests, but also, if the guests were men, to flirt with them. This is how Yates met Michael Hutchence , who had been a guest on the show in late 1994. Yates had already conducted her “flirtatious interviews” as a presenter on The Tube . For example, in 1985 she managed to get her interview partner Sting to take off his pants during the interview in front of the camera.

"Image"

Known for her hydrogen-blonde hair (which she mostly wore in bob hair ), her pecking voice with a Welsh accent and her "naive" way of appearing in public, Yates was either loved or hated by the UK population. Yates sparked a small media scandal when she announced a cosmetic full-body operation in the newspapers and admitted a little later that she had made up this story just to keep the conversation going. Yates also came under criticism from the British public when she wore nothing more than a low-cut, black mini dress with sewn-on sequins at Michael Hutchence's funeral .

Private

In 1986 Paula Yates married Bob Geldof , with whom she had been dating since 1978. Yates and Geldof had three daughters Fifi Trixibelle (* 1983), Peaches Honeyblossom (1989-2014) and Little Pixie (* 1990). The marriage ended in divorce in 1996 after Yates had a relationship with Michael Hutchence a year earlier . In 1996 their daughter Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily was born.

After Hutchence's death in 1997, Yates became depressed and her alcohol and drug addiction increased. On September 17, 2000, the tenth birthday of her daughter Little Pixie, Yates was found dead in bed by her four-year-old daughter Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily. The coroner determined that the cause of death was an overdose of heroin , but emphasized that it was not a suicide , but rather the result of "careless and stupid use" of the opioid mentioned .

Michael Hutchence's sister and stepmother later attempted custody of Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily. However, they lost the custody battle against Bob Geldof, who received custody.

The daughter Peaches died on April 7, 2014 at the age of 25, among other things from the use of heroin. The investigation was resumed on July 23, 2014.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bob Geldof: Is That It? Harmondsworth et al. a .: Penguin Books, 1986. ISBN 0-14-009363-X .
  2. ↑ Thomas Hüetlin: Stars: Death of a Punk Princess . In: Der Spiegel . No. 39 , 2000, pp. 100-102 ( online ).
  3. ^ Heroin overdose killed Yates. In: BBC News . November 8, 2000, accessed August 6, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Death of Peaches Geldorf: Heroin was involved: Peaches Geldorf dies like her mother. In: Augsburger Allgemeine . May 1, 2014, accessed August 6, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Peaches Geldof - wasn't it suicide? Police resume investigation. In: HuffingtonPost.de . July 22, 2014, accessed August 6, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Yates, Paula
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Yates, Paula Elizabeth (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British television presenter
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Colwyn Bay , Wales
DATE OF DEATH September 17, 2000
Place of death London