WORLDWIDE: PAULA YATES DIES AGED 41: FILE MATERIAL (2)
TAPE_NUMBER: EF00/1045
IN_TIME: 15:21:25 - 17:08:06 // 20:43:00 - 21:42:48
LENGTH: 02:50
SOURCES: Shots 1, 16-18 = APTN, shot 2 = Channel One, shots 3-9 = LNN, shot 10 = Channel 10, shots 11-15 = Channel 7
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FEED: VARIOUS (THE ABOVE TIME-CODE IS TIME-OF-DAY)
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Paula Yates combined the role of loving mother and fun-loving "wild child" in a Rock'n Roll lifestyle that took her to the heights of supreme happiness - and the depths of utter despair.
She first found fame in the 1980s as co-presenter on the innovative Channel 4 rock show The Tube, then moved on to The Big Breakfast, where she invited her celebrity guests to be interviewed on a giant bed.
She mixed easily with the showbiz glitterati, but as her public success grew, her private troubles were such that she needed bouts of treatment for depression, and well-documented encouters with drink and drugs.
Her rise to success followed a traumatic childhood, stemming from her intense dislike of the man she thought was her father, T-V presenter Jess Yates.
She was born in a Colwyn Bay nursing home and grew up in a North Wales village near Llandudno Junction, where she said in an autobiography that she had lived in squalor.
In her autobiography Paula said she had felt unloved and unwanted when growing up and her eccentric "father" Jess made her sit on a wooden box while he bashed out hymn music on an organ.
She also claimed that by the time she was 14 she had experimented with drugs and sex and by 19 had posed nude for Penthouse.
But despite her unhappy childhood, Paula found love with the Irish singer with the Boomtown Rats, Bob Geldof.
They married in 1986 after being together for around 10 years.
The couple lived in a house in Kent, in southern England and had three children - Fifi Trixibelle, Peaches and Pixie.
But after 10 years their marriage failed and the couple divorced.
Paula went on to find love with the frontman of Australian rock band INXS, Michael Hutchence, who she met whilst still married to Geldof.
She finally left Geldof in February 1995 to begin a new life with Hutchence and it was their often wild relationship that led Geldof to sue Paula for custody of their three children in 1996.
This came after the drug squad said they found opium after raiding her home when Paula and Hutchence were in Australia.
Paula and Geldof eventually agreed to share custody of their children, with Michael moving into their former home and Geldof moving into Hutchence's old house nearby.
Paula and Hutchence had a child Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily in August 1996 but just a year later, tragedy touched Paula again when he was found hanging by a belt in a Sydney hotel room in November 1997.
She described his death as like being "flung to the dogs", and tried to find comfort in Tiger Lily.
But Paula was thrown into the depths of grief and despite focusing on their daughter, she spent time in and out of private clinics.
The coroner ruled Hutchence's death was suicide and that he was suffering from acute depression after taking drink and drugs following a phone conversation with Geldof.
However, Paula was adamant that he had not committed suicide and maintained it was an accident as he loved Tiger Lily too much.
Paula's life was again thrown into turmoil when the Hutchence family tried to gain custody of Tiger Lily and launched a legal action in 1998 after Paula was treated at a London clinic following a suicide attempt.
But Hutchence's father Kelland Hutchence dropped the custody battle in January last year and said it was all in the past.
Her untimely death will come as a tragic shock to all those who knew and loved her.
SHOTLIST: Various - File
APTN - Paris, France, October 1997
1. Various of Paula Yates at fashion show with Michael Hutchence and daughter Heavenly Hiraani
CHANNEL ONE - London, October 3, 1996
2. Paula Yates arriving outside High Court to begin custody battle with Bob Geldof over their children
LNN - London, 24 November, 1997
3. Bob Geldof outside house which was part of divorce settlement with Paula Yates
4. Geldof talking to press outside house
LNN - London, June 12, 1996
5. Geldof and Yates emerging from courthouse after reaching settlement
6. Geldof and Yates facing press
7. Mid shot Yates
8. Geldof gets into taxi
9. Yates gets into taxi
CHANNEL 10 - File - 1996
10. Hutchence and Yates with baby outside IMAX Theatre in Darling Harbour, Sydney
CHANNEL 7 - File - Sydney, November 1997
11. Exterior Hutchence's coffin being carried into St. Andrew's Cathedral
12. Cutaway distraught fan
13. Paul Yates and Heavenly Hiraani arriving for funeral
14. Wide shot interior of cathedral during Hutchence funeral
15. Yates being comforted by friend
APTN File - Paris, March 1999
16. Yates with one of her children at fashion show
APTN File - London, September 1998
17. Wide shot fashion show
18. Yates seated with friend watching show?