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In June 1998, Geldof won full custody of the couple's three daughters after Yates attempted suicide. [25] She met Kingsley O'Keke during her stay in treatment, but the pair broke up after a six-week romance. O'Keke later sold his story to a tabloid newspaper. [26] [27] Death [ edit ] These Boots Are Made for Walkin' ". Secondhandsongs.com. Archived from the original on 13 October 2007 . Retrieved 25 February 2012.

Williams, Zoe (15 March 2023). "It's a good time to think again about Paula Yates. She was the other Diana: hounded by the press for being herself". The Guardian . Retrieved 21 March 2023. Yeates, Cydney (13 March 2023). "What happened to Paula Yates? Inside The Tube star's tragic death". Metro . Retrieved 14 March 2023.

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She has been divorced, had someone dear to her commit suicide, and discovered her real father was not the man who brought her up.'' Ramsdale, Suzannah (13 March 2023). "Paula on Channel 4 review: The sad, but familiar, tale of how a unique talent lost her way". Evening Standard . Retrieved 14 March 2023.

Mangan, Lucy (13 March 2023). "Paula review – a glorious celebration of the most witty, flirty woman to ever grace our TVS". The Guardian. In a review for Paula, Lucy Mangan, writing for The Guardian, hailed the documentary as "a glorious celebration of the most witty, flirty woman to ever grace our TVs" and gave the show 4/5 stars. [42] [43] Carol Midgeley, writing for The Times, also gave the documentary 4/5 stars, opining that Yates was a "fizzling force of nature". [44] Gerard Gilbert, writing for the newspaper I, rated the documentary 3/5 stars, adding that he "was left with a tragic sense that Yates’s untimely death robbed us of an intriguing second act". [45] 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.The saving of Geldof's soul". The Independent. Ireland. 4 March 2013. Archived from the original on 9 April 2018 . Retrieved 8 April 2018. Yates described her childhood as lonely and isolated; her mother, she claimed, was absent for much of her upbringing. [5] She attended a village primary school, Penrhos College, and Ysgol Aberconwy. The Yates family ran the Deganwy Castle Hotel for a time, [6] before moving to a house near Conwy. After the break-up of her parents' marriage in 1975, Yates lived mostly with her mother despite having a closer relationship with her father, and also had periods in Malta and Mallorca where she was a pupil at Bellver International College, before returning to Britain. [ citation needed] Career [ edit ]

On 17 September 2000, on Pixie's 10th birthday, Yates died at her home in Notting Hill at the age of 41 of a heroin overdose. The coroner ruled that it was not a suicide, but a result of "foolish and incautious" behaviour. [28] [29] Yates was discovered in the presence of her then-four-year-old daughter, Tiger Lily. [30] A friend disclosed during the inquest that Yates had not taken illegal drugs for nearly two years, [31] and the coroner, Paul Knapman, concluded that although the amount Yates had taken would not have killed an addict, "an unsophisticated taker of heroin" like Yates had no tolerance to the drug. [32]Gilbert, Gerard (13 March 2023). "Paula, Channel 4, review: This documentary should have dug deeper than old TV clips". I . Retrieved 21 March 2023. 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] Yates was born in Colwyn Bay, and brought up in the north Wales village of Rowen, near Llandudno. It was not a happy experience. In her autobiography, she described her mother, the former Bluebell dancer and actress Hélène Thornton-Bosment, as being "absent" for large portions of her childhood.

Had Paula lived, Brewin believes she would have done more serious television. She may well have blown the whistle on the darker goings-on of the time. “She was interested in things like the way women were treated. She would have loved the #MeToo movement, that would have been right up her street.” Heroin overdose killed Yates". BBC News. 8 November 2000. Archived from the original on 5 March 2009 . Retrieved 22 May 2010. n Paula Yates had ridden a ''rollercoaster'' of emotions in recent years, dealing with more trauma than most people deal with in a lifetime, a family psychologist said yesterday.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. The news that former TV favourite Hughie Green, below, had fathered her would also have taken its toll, said Dr Sheppard. In 1982, she released a version of the Nancy Sinatra hit song, " These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" from the Music of Quality and Distinction Volume One album by B.E.F. (British Electric Foundation). [7] Evans, Martin (31 October 2000). "Suicide threats of Paula Yates 'drove Hutchence to kill himself' ". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 10 August 2011 . Retrieved 22 May 2010.