![]() ![]() 'I don't think people do, they just learn to live with it. It features interviews with Townsend, who had known Paula since her music magazine days, as well as some of her closest friends and commentators.īelinda Brewin, who describes Paula as her 'best friend' from the early 1980s, reveals what life was like for one of the UK's most famous women behind the scenes when she was at the height of her popularity, versus when things began to unravel. The documentary charts Yates' TV career which began on Channel 4's The Tube in 1982 when the station first launched, and landed her a top presenting spot on Big Breakfast, where she interviewed famous guests on a bed. I was kind of curious what it would be like working again without all that stuff.' 'I was pushing 40, four children, very very happy. 'I didn't have all those stupid girly tricks to fall back on anymore because they'd kind of gone,' she reveals. She revealed how she considered her changed personality. The presenter also addressed going back to work after having four children, Pixie, Peaches and Fifi Trixibelle with Bob Geldof and Heavenly Haraani Tiger Lily with Hutchence. She says: 'I'd probably changed a lot when I was with Michael because once I was with him, the need to flirt - which had been the cornerstone of my personality, certainly the thing I was most famous for - evaporated. She recalls turning to her barrister and saying: 'This will kill him.' Shortly afterwards, Hutchence was found dead.ĭuring the tapes, she also speaks in detail of her relationship with Hutchence, lead singer of INXS. Later in the interview she revealed in heartbreaking detail the 'physical pain' of losing Michael and recalled how she tucked in his body with a duvet when she went to see him in the mortuary, while commenting on how the press and the public were expecting her not to make it through her grief. ![]() Speaking to Townsend, the mother-of-four said her flirty demeanour, for which she had become known throughout her TV career in stints on The Tube and Big Breakfast, 'evaporated' after she got together with Hutchence - whom she'd first met on the Big Breakfast bed. Paula, which airs at 9pm on Channel 4 on Monday and Tuesday next week, features conversations which were recorded by former OK! Magazine editor Martin Townsend shortly after Michael Hutchence, whom Yates always referred to as the love of her life, was found hanged in Sydney in 1997. ![]() Paula Yates remarked that the public were 'waiting for to die' in previously unheard tapes recorded shortly after the death of her partner, Michael Hutchence.Īudio clips of Yates, who died aged 41 in her Notting Hill home after an accidental heroin overdose, are played on a new documentary examining her extraordinary career and her troubled personal life. ![]()
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