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 .I loved Paula Yates. She was a year or so older than me and was such an icon. She had babies but still looked great and with such style. Sadly meeting Michael Hutchence introduced her to drugs which she had never been interested in before. Then Hughie Green being her father and the loss of Michael sent her over the brink. Poor Peaches following her story, so tragic.
Yep. The public persona was what she wanted people to believe. The private persona was, I believe, very different. She was a bad mother.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 .
MH certainly didn’t introduce her to narcotics , but their usage together was phenomenal in how it escalated & ultimately ended them both.
She used to put around the persona of being teetotal, antidrugs and quite prudish. Was that all a myth from the beginning?Yep. The public persona was what she wanted people to believe. The private persona was, I believe, very different. She was a bad mother.
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.She used to put around the persona of being teetotal, antidrugs and quite prudish. Was that all a myth from the beginning?
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.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.
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 twentyPaula was literally a fantasist who just flirted and flitted around in life doing what she wanted and expecting everyone else to trail along with her.
She had been chasing after Michael for many years as well. She had met him before and she very much chameleoned herself into what she thought he wanted, to try to keep him. So to Michael initially she was an alluring sexy lady but she was neurotic, paranoid, jealous and controlling and it did not mesh well with Michael who was private, brooding and hedonistic, wanting to come and go when it pleased him or his mood.
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 twentyI think she was definitely bored with Bob and chasing other men in general.
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 twentyI think she was definitely bored with Bob and chasing other men in general.
Was it him that had an affair with Lulu?She was obsessed with Jason Orange I remember, I used to love Paula on The Tube, I thought she was cool.
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?Paula was always fake. She chased after Bob Geldof until she caught him, then played the part of a rockstar's wife, whilst being an earth mother, giving her children an Enid Blyton-esque childhood - all bullshit, because, as we know, they were brought up by the nanny. Paula was off partying most of the time, unless posing for photos for a glossy magazine with a flowery apron on, pretending to make cupcakes with the kids. I think she very quickly lost interest in Bob, there were lots of stories about her flirting/having affairs with various young popstars. Had she survived, she would be one of those embarrassing older ladies (Madonna I'm looking at you) with a succession of much younger boyfriends.
I think she’d be famous for dating men younger than her daughters and competing with Madonna in the cosmetic surgery stakes.Paula would've been in her mid 60s now.
Interesting to think what she might be doing. Maybe go down the wellness route with a skincare range. Appear on the Masked Singer.
She was only 41 when she died in 2000.
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’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.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?
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