I’m afraid the public persona of Paula Yates was very different to the real Paula Yates . She had intermittently used drugs since the age of 14 but was never an addict .
Yep. The public persona was what she wanted people to believe. The private persona was, I believe, very different. She was a bad mother.
She used to put around the persona of being teetotal, antidrugs and quite prudish. Was that all a myth from the beginning?
Yes. Peaches also put out there that she was a hippy earth mother who loved attachment parenting when she was addicted to heroin and her babies spent time away from her regularly. Both were putting the persona out there they wanted to be but that doesn't mean it was really what they were doing.
Yes I think it's what they wanted to be seen as rather than what they were actually like. It was all fake. You can't ' attachment parent' safely if you are on drugs, or sleep with your baby in bed, as they both said they did.
I read somewhere that at one point she was also obsessed with Take That! She went on a tour with them …does anyone else recall this? There is that Big Breakfast interview where her and Robbie are flirting outrageously … he only looks about twenty
I think she was definitely bored with Bob and chasing other men in general.Also something with Liam Gallagher, who eventually refused her only because he was afraid of Bob.I read somewhere that at one point she was also obsessed with Take That! She went on a tour with them …does anyone else recall this? There is that Big Breakfast interview where her and Robbie are flirting outrageously … he only looks about twenty
She was obsessed with Jason Orange I remember, I used to love Paula on The Tube, I thought she was cool.I read somewhere that at one point she was also obsessed with Take That! She went on a tour with them …does anyone else recall this? There is that Big Breakfast interview where her and Robbie are flirting outrageously … he only looks about twenty
Was it him that had an affair with Lulu?
I never really fell for the Earth Mother c*rap it just didn't ring true, you could tell she was hedonistic and self centred and Peaches was the daughter most like her in looks and personality I wonder if she favoured her more than Fi Fi because of that? And she gave her kids ridiculous names not caring that they might have the mickey taken out of them in later life. Don't know if this is true but she had been chasing Geldolf for quite a long time and eventually she ran after him into the back of a car and gave him a BJ there and then, that was the beginning of their relationship - how romantic!!!! I am also intrigued that she was with Rupert Everett for so long as he has been very vocal about his homosexuality for years, did he forget about his affair with a married woman for several years?
I think she’d be famous for dating men younger than her daughters and competing with Madonna in the cosmetic surgery stakes.
I’ve always thought Pixie was michaels! In a documentary after his death, paula slips up and says Michael wanted his ‘daughters’ to go to australia, she obviously checks herself and tries to backtrack. Pixie looks more like MH than Tiger I think.I would bet money pixie is biologically, Michael’s daughter.
as for Paula lording that over Bob, there are several reasons why she might not/could not have done that.
legally, a man has no legal claim or responsibility to a child unless he is married to the mother (yep, really) or has been specifically named on the birth certificate. In legal terms, it’s called “parental responsibility”. It can be applied for at a later date of course, but that gets complicated and I’m not sure how accessible dna tests were in the 90s.
1. So Legally, Bob is Pixies father. And it goes without saying he has raised her.
2. Assuming Paula had an affair with someone else, they aren’t named on the birth certificate so wouldn’t have been under any legal responsibility to provide for Pixie.
3. it’s possible Paula wasn’t sure herself.
Hurchence’s manager spoke about how Paula stalked him and that she’d hooked up with him long before the Big Breakfast interview. They first met in 1985 apparently.
if we look back on the time that Pixie was conceived, it would’ve been December 1989. At that time, Band Aid II was being recorded in London and Kylie Minogue participated.
Kylie had just finished her first global concert tour, which took place in October of that same year. Infamously, she met Michael Hutchence during this tour and dumped Jason Donovan pretty much straight away.
so it’s very plausible that MH could have accompanied Kylie to London (they were already making public appearances together by then, and attended a premier for The Delinquents in December 1989) in their early days of being a couple, had a hook up with Paula but ultimately chose to stay with Kylie. He certainly had form for letting relationships overlap!
Michael Hutchence juggled dating Kylie Minogue and Helena Christensen
Michael Hutchence had women across the world swooning over his good looks and charm.www.dailymail.co.uk
Helena was supposedly the love of his life, but because of his brain injury he had started to become depressed and was prescribed Prozac for the first time in 1995 - I’ve always thought that his relationship with Helena started breaking down as a result of his injury and mental state, and he gave in to long-standing side chick Paula whilst vulnerable and probably pretty heartbroken.
for me, it’s almost certain that Hutchence fathered Pixie. The resemblance is uncanny and she’s almost identical facially (albeit her colouring is slightly different) to Tigerlily - and neither of them resemble Paula. I’m surprised not more is made of it but then I guess it’s very personal. I always assumed that’s why Paula spoke more warmly about Pixie, than she ever did about Fifi or Peaches.
it’s another sad, ironic twist in this family’s story if you ask me.
Peaches died of an overdose, like her mother.
Pixie is likely to be aware of rumours that her biological father isn’t the man who raised her - something that also devastated Paula.
it’s the name peaches used on FB
I once read an interview with Paula where she said, Peaches would look the most like her, but Pixie was most like her characterwise. Not sure about that.
Maybe wishful thinking, because I can imagine Pixie‘s character being more likeable. (Only speculation though, because ofc I didn’t know any of them personally.)
