Rock Stars in Their Underpants

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Yates’s interviews with pop stars on the bed in The Big Breakfast are the stuff of entertainment legend. Anarchic yet seductive, she snuggled up to a string of stars and coaxed their secrets from them. It’s hard to imagine anything like it featuring in the more sanitised breakfast television landscape today. Brewin says a celebrity like her wouldn’t exist today “because everyone’s so serious and vain”.

However, it was as co-host, with Jools Holland, of Channel 4's groundbreaking music show The Tube, in 1982 that Yates made her name. Apart from writing the number one (in 12 countries) chart song "The Saints Are Coming" Richard has directed 6 movies and hosted the Film Show for MTV. He has met the great the good (and the bad) in Hollywood and the music industry.It was a stance - in which she used a television programme to plead her cause a la Diana - which dashed much of the public sympathy which followed the double blow of her lover's death and the revelation about her parentage.

Peaches Geldof: Writer and TV presenter dies aged 25". BBC News. 7 April 2014. Archived from the original on 5 May 2018 . Retrieved 9 April 2018. In May 1996, the Geldofs' marriage ends in a divorce which had been a bitter contest until agreement was reached with a public statement on shared custody and continued good relations. They swopped homes, with Yates, heavily pregnant with Hutchence's child, returning to her old matrimonial house in Chelsea, while Geldof moved into Hutchence's home 270 yards away. Each day she would say to me, ‘I don’t know how I’m going to get through this day,’ says Brewin. “But she did, and she said, ‘I have to for my children, I couldn’t bear to be without them.’ There was never any question she was going to keep putting one foot in front of the other. She loved those girls so much. She didn’t want her loneliness to affect them.” Forgotten the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Visit BookSleuthGeldof and Yates divorced in May 1996. On 22 July 1996, Yates gave birth to a daughter, Tiger Lily Hiraani Hutchence. [20] Yates's lippy, ludicrous public image made her an easy target for derision. She loved the spotlight, and her fame by association. Anonymity never suited her. She was vulgar, irrepressible and eccentric, and, in many ways, represented all that is silly and vacuous about modern celebrity. Soon after Yates's death, Geldof assumed foster custody of Tiger Lily so that she could be brought up with her three older half-sisters, Fifi, Peaches and Pixie. Her aunt, Tina Hutchence, the sister of Michael Hutchence, was denied permission by the judge to apply for Tiger Lily to live with her in California. [33] In 2007, Geldof adopted Tiger Lily and changed her surname to Geldof; [34] as of 2019, Tiger's legal name was Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily Hutchence Geldof. [35] Can you tell us more about this person? Spotted an error, information that is missing (a sitter’s life dates, occupation or family relationships, or a date of portrait for example) or do you know anything that we don't know? If you have information to share please complete the form below.