![]() She eventually sought psychiatric treatment. Yates became distraught, refusing to accept the coroner's verdict of suicide and insisting that it was a case of auto-erotic asphyxiation. Yates wrote in her police statement that Hutchence was "frightened and couldn't stand a minute more without his baby." During their phone conversations on the morning of his suicide, he had said, "I don't know how I'll live without Tiger." Yates also wrote that Geldof had threatened them repeatedly with, "Don't forget, I am above the law". The official verdict into his death said that he committed suicide by hanging. On 22 November 1997, Michael Hutchence was found dead in a hotel room in Sydney. On 22 July 1996, Yates gave birth to a daughter, Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily Hutchence (known as Tiger). ![]() In February 1995, Yates left Geldof, and later that year became pregnant with Hutchence's child. Yates maintained irregular contact with Hutchence during the intervening nine years and their affair had been under way for some months before their Big Breakfast interview in October 1994. " Yates was unmoved by the manager's request and began to show up at INXS gigs everywhere for the next few years, even taking her young daughter Fifi along. During this appearance on The Tube, Yates was reportedly asked to leave Hutchence alone by the road manager of INXS when she walked up to him and said, "I'm going to have that boy. In 1985, Yates met INXS lead singer Michael Hutchence while interviewing him for Channel 4's rock magazine programme The Tube. The couple then had two more daughters, Peaches on 13 March 1989, and Pixie on 17 September 1990. After ten years together, Yates and Geldof married on 31 August 1986 in Las Vegas, with Simon Le Bon of Duran Duran acting as best man. Their first daughter, Fifi Trixibelle, was born on 31 March 1983, named Fifi after Geldof's aunt Fifi, and Trixibelle because Yates wanted a belle in the family. They began a romantic relationship in 1976 when she flew to Paris to surprise him while the band was playing there. Yates met Geldof in the early days of The Boomtown Rats. ![]() She became most notorious for her "on the bed" interviews on the show The Big Breakfast, produced by her husband, Bob Geldof. Yates continued with her rock journalism, in addition to being presenter of the cutting-edge music show The Tube. ![]() After the birth of her daughters, Yates wrote two books on motherhood. In 1982, she released a version of the Nancy Sinatra hit song " These Boots Are Made for Walkin'". She also appeared alongside her friend Jennifer Saunders in 1987 for a spoof 'mockumentary' on Bananarama. She first came to prominence in the 1980s, as co-presenter (with Jools Holland) of the Channel 4 pop music programme The Tube. In 1979, Yates began her career as a music journalist with a column called "Natural Blonde" in the Record Mirror, shortly after posing for Penthouse magazine. After the break-up of her parents' marriage in 1975, Yates lived mostly with her mother despite having a closer relationship with her father, and also had periods in Malta and Mallorca where she was a pupil at Bellver International College, before returning to Britain. The Yates family ran the Deganwy Castle Hotel for a time, before moving to a house near Conwy. She attended a village primary school, Penrhos College, and Ysgol Aberconwy. ![]() Yates described her childhood as lonely and isolated her mother, she claimed, was absent for much of her upbringing. Jess Yates was 19 years older than his wife, and their marriage was unconventional. Jess Yates and Elaine Smith were married from 1958 to 1975. Up until 1997, Yates believed her biological father to be Jess Yates, who hosted the ITV religious programme Stars on Sunday. Her mother was Elaine Smith, a former showgirl actress and writer of erotic novels from Blackpool, who used the stage name Heller Toren. Born on 24 April 1959 in Colwyn Bay, Wales, to English parents, Yates was brought up in a show business family. ![]()
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