Paula Yates: Article From Daily Express [ Long ]
Matthew Kruk
> ... While acknowledging that she was a caring mother, it
> reveals that Hutchence's family believed Paula was driven by her
> publicity-seeking nature to manipulate any event, no matter how tragic, to her
> advantage.
>
> The family was particularly hurt and appalled by Paula's behaviour at his
> funeral, attempting to upstage them by arriving in a separate limousine,
> wearing a revealing dress and taking her place in a cathedral pew reserved for
> his family.
No kidding. I never saw so much cleavage at a funeral before she made her
appearance. I had to re-read the caption in the newspaper to make certain it
was Hutchence's funeral and not one of those "during happier times" photos.
...
> She had left Geldof for the INXS frontman in February 1995, describing him as
> "God's gift to women".
Founding member of Rocket Scientists Inc. she sounds like. So, Geldof got
demoted to second greatest gift?
...
> She was saved by a friend who found her in the bedroom of her home with a noose
> round her neck, similar to the way in which Hutchence died.
Sounds like they made a nice couple.
...
> In between, there were operations to straighten her teeth, enhance her bust and
> remove two ribs to make her slimmer. Earlier this year, amid a string of
> ...
Two ribs? These are desperate times we live in.
Sorry, I could never take Hutchence as seriously as he took himself (Inxs was a
good group) and Yates, particularly after the funeral, was difficult to take
with any grain of salt. Given the Express information, had they lived, it
sounds like they would have eventually destroyed each other anyway. Sad.
Lily-Rose Mortem
BY KATHY MORAN AND JOHN TWOMEY
TV personality Paula Yates was found dead yesterday after her daughter Tiger
Lily cried on the telephone: "I can't wake up my mummy."
Four-year-old Tiger Lily was wandering alone in their West London home unaware
that her mother had died of a suspected accidental drink and drugs overdose in
her bedroom.
Worried friend Josephine Fairley had been ringing Paula and eventually the
little girl answered. Soon afterwards Ms Fairley let herself into the mews
house with her own set of keys and found Paula's body.
An ambulance crew and police were called but Paula, 40, was pronounced dead at
the scene. The troubled mother of four had been in fear in recent weeks of
revelations in a new book about her former lover, the late rock star Michael
Hutchence, who was Tiger Lily's father. The book by the mother and half-sister
of Hutchence is believed to paint a chequered portrait of Paula, who was not
asked to contribute. While acknowledging that she was a caring mother, it
reveals that Hutchence's family believed Paula was driven by her
publicity-seeking nature to manipulate any event, no matter how tragic, to her
advantage.
The family was particularly hurt and appalled by Paula's behaviour at his
funeral, attempting to upstage them by arriving in a separate limousine,
wearing a revealing dress and taking her place in a cathedral pew reserved for
his family.
Paula had contacted her lawyer and asked him to obtain an advance copy of Just
a Man: The Real Michael Hutchence, provocatively billed as "the inside story by
those who knew Michael best", to establish whether it contained derogatory
material about her or Tiger Lily.
Police were treating the death of Bob Geldof's former wife as suspicious, but
said there was no sign of violence.
One of the the last people to see Paula alive told how he had been concerned to
see her looking "drunk and depressed" on Saturday evening.
Shahid Shafi, who runs a food and wine store near Paula's house, said she
called in alone at around 10pm, looking drawn and tired.
He said: "She was a bit drunk, I knew she had been drinking vodka all day
because she and a friend had been in three or four times and bought quarter
bottles.
"At around 10pm she came in alone. She had nothing on her feet and was wearing
a long grey spotted dress. She looked really unhappy and depressed, like I have
never seen her before.
"Normally, she is a really cheerful person but not the last time I saw her. I
asked her if she was all right and she sighed and said she was but I could tell
something had happened to make her sad.
"She bought some household cleaning items, bathroom cleaner I think it was, and
just said that she would see me the next morning."
Mr Shafi, 38, said he had come to know Paula well over the last year since she
had moved to the house. She often called in to buy groceries as well as
miniature bottles of vodka.
"I had never seen this friend that she came in with on Saturday," he said. "She
was a tall, blonde, slim woman and she was carrying Paula's youngest daughter.
They obviously were drinking all day because the friend bought three or four
quarter bottles of vodka from me over the course of the day. When I heard the
news that Paula had died I was in tears."
Paula's body, in a burgundy body bag, was taken to Westminster mortuary where a
post mortem examination today will try to establish the cause of death.
Forensic officers spent yesterday morning at her home, looking for clues. They
took away several items. It is understood that several substances have been
sent for analysis.
Detective Inspector Mike Christensen said there were no signs of violence but
until the cause of death was known they were treating it as suspicious. Geldof,
who received an honorary knighthood after his charity campaigning, has custody
of three daughters from their 18-year relationship - Fifi Trixibelle, 17,
Peaches, 10, and Pixie, seven.
Yesterday Geldof said in a statement: "We are all so sad. The loss for all the
children is insupportable.
"It doesn't require much imagination to understand the pain. Please do nothing
to add to that. Leave them (the children) with their loss and Paula with her
dignity."
Paula's mother, Heller Thornton-Bosment, said she was devastated. "This has
come as a terrible shock to everyone," said Mrs Thornton-Bosment, who lives in
the South of France. "I am waiting for calls from London to find out exactly
what has happened."
Hutchence's father Kell said: "My son's death was a young life wasted and this
is yet another terrible episode. It is just very sad, very tragic."
Hutchence's mother, whose forthcoming book was viewed by Paula with great
trepidation, said she was saddened but not surprised by her death. Retired
Hollywood make-up artist Patricia Glassop said: "I feared something like this
would happen one day. It's a real shock but not altogether surprising."
It had seemed that Paula's turbulent life had settled down during the past year
after she had battled with depression and addiction since Hutchence's death in
a Sydney hotel room on November 11, 1997.
She had left Geldof for the INXS frontman in February 1995, describing him as
"God's gift to women". The couple had been due to marry.
In April 1998 Paula was admitted to a psychiatric hospital with depression and
two months later, after losing custody of Fifi, Peaches and Pixie to Geldof,
she was admitted to a rehabilitation clinic after trying to hang herself in an
apparent suicide bid.
She was saved by a friend who found her in the bedroom of her home with a noose
round her neck, similar to the way in which Hutchence died.
Last summer she collapsed at home and her daughter Peaches ran out on to the
street in her pyjamas to call for help from passers-by. After that it appeared
as if she had started to pick up the pieces of her life . This summer she gave
a magazine interview in which she said she had finally found contentment after
Hutchence's untimely death.
She had restarted her career as a writer and had been due to front a TV series
this autumn.
Paula was a 17-year-old pop groupie when she foisted herself on Bob Geldof
before a Boomtown Rats concert. Within half an hour she was sharing his
limousine and later that night his bed before he gave her 80p for her bus ride
home. Yates decided that Geldof must be infatuated with her and set about
pursuing him with such vigour that she was nicknamed "the limpet" by other
members of the band. When she followed him to Paris, after seeing a poster
advertising one of his concerts, his resistance crumbled and an 18-year
relationship began.
Famous by association with Geldof, she posed naked in London's staid Reform
Club for Penthouse magazine and published a book of photographs, called Rock
Stars in their Underpants, before getting her break in television in 1982.
While working as a music journalist she was chosen to co-host Channel 4's
groundbreaking music show, the Tube, with Jools Holland which ran for five
years despite almost widespread critical loathing and a series of brushes with
TV authorities over its controversial content.
After having her first baby, she wrote and presented the un-memorable Channel 4
programme Baby, Baby in 1984, before landing the celebrity interviewer's slot
on the Big Breakfast in 1992. Her husband was an owner of the show's producer,
Planet 24. Yates set the tone when she arrived to greet the media in a dress
made of artificial turf, covered in daisies and vegetables, and conducted her
interviews on, or in, a bed.
Her passionate affair with Hutchence began after a smouldering encounter on the
sheets, for the programme in 1993.
By then Geldof, following his work for the Third World, was enjoying near
sanctity and for all its unpredictability his marriage to Paula was regarded as
one of the most solid in showbusiness. But as his pop career foundered, there
were hints that Yates was finding stability and becoming part of the
new-establishment rather boring.
In her affair with Hutchence there were parallels with the beginning of her
relationship with Geldof. She threw herself at the Australian star, later
admitting that she spent much of her stint on the Big Breakfast bed
"interviewing Hutchence's crotch". She moved out of the marital home in 1995 to
be with the INXS singer whose scruffy appearance resembled the young Geldof.
Her career increasingly took a back seat to the legal battles that followed -
first with Geldof over custody of their children, then with Hutchence's family
after his suicide three years ago.
In between, there were operations to straighten her teeth, enhance her bust and
remove two ribs to make her slimmer. Earlier this year, amid a string of
affairs with younger lovers, there was the treatment for depression.
The suicide of Hutchence was a crushing blow. She fought against the inquest
verdict, and rowed with his family over his ashes - they were eventually split
three ways.
There was another legal battle over Hutchence's will, in which he left the bulk
of his wealth to his daughter and environmental charities. Paula subsequently
won a share of the millions.
The death of her lover came a few months after another devastating revelation.
She grew up believing that the Stars on Sunday presenter Jess Yates was her
father, but DNA tests showed that her real father was the Opportunity Knocks
host Hughie Green.
Additional reporting by Maggie Morgan and Adrian Lee
© Express Newspapers, 2000
Brian Watson
"Lily-Rose Mortem" <lilyros...@aol.com> wrote in message
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> <snip>...While acknowledging that she was a caring mother,
<snip>
> They obviously were drinking all day because the friend bought three or
four
> quarter bottles of vodka from me over the course of the day.
Compare and contrast.
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Brian
The Avocado Avenger
>Lily-Rose Mortem wrote:
>> ... While acknowledging that she was a caring mother, it
>> reveals that Hutchence's family believed Paula was driven by her
>> publicity-seeking nature to manipulate any event, no matter how tragic, to her
>> advantage.
>>
>> The family was particularly hurt and appalled by Paula's behaviour at his
>> funeral, attempting to upstage them by arriving in a separate limousine,
>> wearing a revealing dress and taking her place in a cathedral pew reserved for
>> his family.
>No kidding. I never saw so much cleavage at a funeral before she made her
>appearance. I had to re-read the caption in the newspaper to make certain it
>was Hutchence's funeral and not one of those "during happier times" photos.
Surely it wasn't as bad as that Anna what's-her-face, the blonde from
Playboy with the huge augmented breasts; she went to her extremely
elderly husband's funeral in a dress that I swear didn't completely cover
her nipples.
Anyhow, this article sure sheds more light on the situation. However, I
disagree with the assertion that Hutchence looked like a younger Geldof.
There's very little similarity, in my opinion.
>Sorry, I could never take Hutchence as seriously as he took himself (Inxs was a
>good group)
Perhaps it was the post-1980s blues, but interviews in the 1990s showed
him taking himself very lightly.
Stacia * The Avocado Avenger * Life is a tale told by an idiot;
http://www.io.com/~stacia/ * Full of sound and fury,
There is no guacamole anywhere. * Signifying nothing.
Matthew Kruk
> >> reveals that Hutchence's family believed Paula was driven by her
> >> publicity-seeking nature to manipulate any event, no matter how tragic, to her
> >> advantage.
> >>
> >> The family was particularly hurt and appalled by Paula's behaviour at his
> >> funeral, attempting to upstage them by arriving in a separate limousine,
> >> wearing a revealing dress and taking her place in a cathedral pew reserved for
> >> his family.
>
> >appearance. I had to re-read the caption in the newspaper to make certain it
> >was Hutchence's funeral and not one of those "during happier times" photos.
>
> Surely it wasn't as bad as that Anna what's-her-face, the blonde from
> Playboy with the huge augmented breasts; she went to her extremely
> elderly husband's funeral in a dress that I swear didn't completely cover
> her nipples.
Anna Nicole-Twit? Not saying Paula is the only one.
> Anyhow, this article sure sheds more light on the situation. However, I
> disagree with the assertion that Hutchence looked like a younger Geldof.
> There's very little similarity, in my opinion.
In today's paper they had a picture of Yates and Geldof circa 1993 and Hutchence
from about 1995. Hutchence definitely looks like a younger Geldof here.
> >Sorry, I could never take Hutchence as seriously as he took himself (Inxs was a
> >good group)
>
> Perhaps it was the post-1980s blues, but interviews in the 1990s showed
> him taking himself very lightly.
What's an Aussie to do - my mates or Yates. Sigh.
Brian Watson
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>
> What's an Aussie to do - my mates or Yates. Sigh.
Mates isn't the only brand of condom that could has been used to great
effect in these sad relationships.
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Brian
Vanessa
news saying
that this is incorrect and that Tiger was out of the country with friends.
Tonight, the media is reporting that it was Tiger who found her.
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Vanessa :-)
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