Paula Elizabeth Yates was a British television presenter and writer.
27 Facts About Paula Yates
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Paula Yates was subjected to intense media attention and scrutiny, owing to her popularity and her relationships with musicians Bob Geldof and Michael Hutchence.
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Paula Yates's mother was Elaine Smith, a former showgirl, actress, and writer of erotic novels from Blackpool, who used the stage name Heller Toren.
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Up until 1997, Paula Yates believed her biological father to be Jess Paula Yates, who hosted the ITV religious programme Stars on Sunday.
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Jess Paula Yates was 19 years older than his wife, and their marriage was unconventional.
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Paula Yates described her childhood as lonely and isolated; her mother, she claimed, was absent for much of her upbringing.
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Paula Yates attended a village primary school, Penrhos College, and Ysgol Aberconwy.
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The Paula Yates family ran the Deganwy Castle Hotel for a time, before moving to a house near Conwy.
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In 1979, Paula Yates began her career as a music journalist with a column called "Natural Blonde" in the Record Mirror, shortly after posing for Penthouse magazine.
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Paula Yates first came to prominence in the 1980s, as co-presenter of the Channel 4 pop music programme The Tube, having been a minor co-host of BBC TV chat shows with presenter Terry Wogan.
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Paula Yates appeared alongside her friend Jennifer Saunders in 1987 for a spoof documentary on pop group Bananarama.
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Paula Yates continued with her rock journalism, in addition to being presenter of the cutting-edge music show The Tube.
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Paula Yates became most notorious for her "on the bed" interviews on the show The Big Breakfast, produced by her husband, Bob Geldof.
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Paula Yates met Geldof in the early days of the Boomtown Rats.
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Whilst married to Geldof, Paula Yates had a year-long affair with American singer Terrence Trent D'Arby.
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Paula Yates had a six-year long affair with actor Rupert Everett.
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In 1985, Paula Yates met INXS lead singer Michael Hutchence while interviewing him for Channel 4's rock magazine programme The Tube.
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Paula Yates was unmoved by the manager's request and began to show up at INXS gigs everywhere for the next few years, even taking her young daughter Fifi along.
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Paula Yates maintained irregular contact with Hutchence during the intervening nine years and their affair had been under way for some months before their Big Breakfast interview in October 1994.
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In February 1995, Paula Yates left Geldof, and later that year became pregnant with Hutchence's child.
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On 22 July 1996, Paula Yates gave birth to a daughter, Tiger Lily.
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Paula Yates wrote in her police statement that Hutchence was "frightened and couldn't stand a minute more without his baby".
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Paula Yates met Kingsley O'Keke during her stay in treatment, but the pair broke up after a six-week romance.
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On 17 September 2000, on Pixie's 10th birthday, Paula Yates died at her home in Notting Hill at the age of 41 of a heroin overdose.
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Paula Yates was discovered in the presence of her then-four-year-old daughter, Tiger Lily.
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On 13 March 2023, Yates was the subject of a two-part Channel 4 documentary, entitled Paula, which looked at her life and career.
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Brewin revealed that she and Paula Yates had been shopping on the Fulham Road in London, when they met Diana, Princess of Wales, who told Paula Yates: "I love it when you're on the front page of the papers, because it means I got the day off".