Paula Yates Interview, Ireland 1982

Paula Yates talks about her work, men, underpants and being a dutiful girlfriend on ‘The Late Late Show’.
Despite leaving school when she was 15 years old, Paula now writes about music for 11 magazines and newspapers. She also contributes a column for women’s magazine ‘Cosmopolitan’ where she wrote about what makes men sexy.
The other day she had lunch with broadcaster Terry Wogan who she finds sexy because;
"He has all the attributes that most girls with any sense look for. He’s over six foot, for a starter...and he’s a Paddy, and that’s a great help I think."
Paula is very taken by Irish men as they have a;
"Good line in chat so even if they’ve got a face like a turnip you can shut your eyes and you can listen to all this guff that they talk, and it sounds like they’re telling the truth."
A couple of years ago Paula published a successful book of photos ‘Rock Stars in Their Underpants’ featuring famous people in their underwear. She was not short of participants willing to feature in the book. However, Roxy Music singer Bryan Ferry and Queen front man Freddie Mercury both refused.
Paula does not intend to settle down to be a dutiful wife and mother as she already considers herself to be a dutiful girlfriend. As for motherhood,
"I’d be a very good mother as long as I only have boys...I’m going to have all boys."
This edition of ‘The Late Late Show’ was broadcast from Goff’s in County Kildare as the RTÉ studio in Donnybrook was being used for that year’s National Song Contest. Paula’s partner Bob Geldof also appeared on the programme with his band The Boomtown Rats. The couple married in 1986 and had three daughters; Fifi Trixibelle, Peaches and Pixie.
This episode of ‘The Late Late Show’ was broadcast on 13 March 1982. The presenter is Gay Byrne.

[@ginac895]

Paula was so charming and witty. I can't help but like her. So sad how it all turned out.

[@bridgetregan9408]

How ironic “ didn’t want girls “ she had girls, no boys

[@janeslater8004]

She was only about 21 here. Very young

[@dhill1113]

Odd the docu on her does a Princess di comparsion! lts too much. l recall her "fame" - She as a best a b-lst whose show stayed on the air only because Bob produced it. The first half of her "career" she did full on pornographic photos and chased Bob until he finally married when her oldest was 2 ears old. She was frequently called out for her lying to the press. This woman was the most famous wanna be at most.

[@Eve_Y]

And she ended up having all girls😂 she jinxed herself here lol

[@Danielle-fu5hw]

She wanted all boys and she had al girls.

[@donnapavina8803]

I think Freddie wasn’t as taken by her seductive ways for, now, obvious reasons.

[@maireadnic8280]

Didn’t stop Rupert Everett!

[@murphy9039]

Thanks for the upload. Why does the late late studio look so different?

[@Blondie101010100]

Think it was on location somewhere, like Cork or that. The odd time they did that.

[@AndreaGracie]

She had all girls.

[@Kevin-1969]

She looks like her Father Hughie Green

[@azillliasmith2734]

Yes she does very much....

[@SavvyMama]

She was stunning & brilliant & charming. I wish she had lived longer. Drugs don’t discriminate. I do think Sir Bob loved her but sometimes love isn’t enough. I think Michael Hutchins loved her as well but their relationship was just jinxed from jump. Sad.

[@lilifive6719]

Paula "friend" Gerry Agar once stated that she thought Pixie was Michael's. Granted Gerry may not be the the best source for the truth given her history (After Paula was upset with Gerry calling herself their PR agent in an article, she planted drugs and called the press with a sex photos story, supposedly found under the bed even though Paula and Michael slept on a futon.) Gerry claimed that at least one of her kids with Geldof was really Michael's. Maybe this is why Paula started the invitro story - so as not to embarass Kylie whom Michael dated when Pixie was conceived. Could also explain why Michael was forced into court - his DNA would be proof of infidelity and thus Bob wouldn't have to pay any or as much support. And if Paula was intending to tell the world the kid's true parentage, that would explain why Bob was so adamant to gain full custody. Who knows.

[@wickedwitchoftheeast88]

Nah thats bollocks probably started by Gerry Agar, Paula's best friend Belinda Brewin said Gerry was a pushy school mum of one of her daughters apparently she basically harassed people in the industry claiming she was Paula's agent/PR. I think Gerry Agar said Michael hadn't wanted Tiger and he said to Belinda "I wanked into a plastic cup for months to have the baby". Belinda didn't speak very highly of Gerry Agar in her book and I believe her

[@Amy-466]

Interesting and had never heard that..

[@MRayanna]

@@wickedwitchoftheeast88 Yeah, I wouldn't believe anything Gerry said. She was a fabricating drama queen. Apparently she only met Michael a few times and her relationship with Paula quickly soured. So her book is 90 percent fabrications and what she heard from others.

[@kimaglioti7775]

Horrid to read smut.

[@kimaglioti7775]

Did she write the book I read about Michael and Paula written by an old 'friend' that was once buddies with both of them? Mortified.

[@meilingflesa8140]

She looks like Marie from Roxette

[@sidewinder1639]

Personality disorder?

[@liciasantos2883]

Como ela era linda...

[@dragonfly6908]

Paula was so unique with her quick wit and seductive charm.

[@degsbabe]

Wonder where she got it from....was it Hughie....?

[@JackZajkovski]

Paula got a lot of his money. She made Michael's financial advisor Colin Diamond, Tiger's godfather & POOF - her millions in legal fees, debts are gone and she purchased 2 homes in London & Hastings. Mags speculated she got a lot from his life insurance. THis explains' her shifting from blaming Bob for Michael's depression & being venomously against the idea of an accidental death - to doing a 180 and saying she was challenging the corners report....yet never did! Life insurance is rarely payed out in the event of a suicide unless you can make a strong argument that the death is at best unknown. Sad that according to Tiger, she got nothing, even after Bob sold Paula's homes!! So here did all the mola go after Paula passed?

[@kernelkelly1213]

A lot of this is inaccurate. Plus, too many people blame Paula for Michael's death and not enough on his own drug habit and TBI.

[@Amy-466]

I have read it was all stashed in overseas funds thanks to Diamond. Never to be seen again..

[@MRayanna]

@@kernelkelly1213 Paula was the druggy of the two - by far. She talks about her drug use in her autobiography - she started taking Heroin at 12 with her first boyfriend named Eric l don't think his drug use was a bad as some say. Friends noted he rarely did drugs after his head injury because he already had to take a lot of precription meds. In an old TV Weekly mag with the cover story "Michael Hutchence Slams Heroin Use: "Its a one way road" he says "to me heroin is the scorge of it all. That's the stuff that hurts really bad, in the short and the long term, if you survive. I don't know anyone who hasn't done that stuff who hasn't been affected by it, either by losing friends, or they're just not the same as they were and never will be."

[@marjol3in]

​@@kernelkelly1213I agree and I am a Hutchence fan.

[@dhill1113]

@@kernelkelly1213 What's inaccurate? Anyone can look up and see that Paula made Colin Diamond (Michael's financial advisor) Tiger's Godfather. Paula did interviews shortly after Michael died showing off her new 2 million home. This after her claiming she was broke and had lost her Clapham home to creditors for failure to pay her bills. There are photos of her new home where she posed with Tiger in her new bedroom. Later Paula also was able to buy a second home in Hastings. I don't agree that Tiger got nothing though. Look up Tiger's record "Tiger Lily's Sad Meltdown". She thanks one of Diamond's sons in the credits. She obviuosly continued her close relationship with the family, which make sense. Diamond handled Michael's estate and made sure Paula was taken care of, so he probably handled Paula's estate.

[@leesaking6746]

She had nothing but girls

[@leesaking6746]

@MsMissy so nothing she said she thought she’d have boys but was blessed with girls just a simple comment!!

[@johedges5946]

All boys - and she would go on to have 4 girls! life is strange

[@Sammy-mp9xn]

And one overdosed.

[@keltiquewood]

So long ago Paula felt the need to explain that Freddie Mercury was the lead singer with Queen!

[@hgrunenwald]

She also felt the need to make a mean jab about his body hair because he didn't want to be in her dumb book. Meanwhile, she had no idea about his health condition...

[@jhibberd6290]

​@@hgrunenwald Neither did Freddie, he was well in 1982

[@noelmaher4633]

Liked the "Paddy accent" until met the Aussie one..

[@opencurtin]

She wouldn’t get away with that today calling us paddies lol

[@camdenroad44]

she was a paddy too ;)

[@arthurvasey]

Or Micks! The Paddies are from Eire and the Micks are the Northern Irish!

[@lushhclub819]

Showbiz....home of the pretentious

[@criticalcatalyst]

For some reason, I always thought there were running similarities between Diana Spencer and Paula Yates. Perhaps it's because they both had this guarded and vulnerable way of looking up and under at you with their eyes...Tragic all in all. Not meant for this realm to be sure...

[@dawnchampion7614]

I've always thought this too. It's the eyes. Non of these actresses playing Diana actually get it right. Paula has very similar expressions as Diana, but they are hers

[@BLTKellys]

Diana was the madonna and Paula was the whore.

[@virginiaviola5097]

Similar very isolated upbringing, similar education, similar daddy fixation and absent glamorous mother, similar age when they set their sights on their future husband and caught him, similar love/hate relationship with the British press and similar age full stop. And sadly similar, tragedy later on and early death.

[@annieroche22]

​@@dawnchampion7614p

[@azillliasmith2734]

They both looked quite hard faced and a bit artificial.....

[@lottyhogan1333]

I really like her, me and my late dad saw this interview at the time it was aired, and he absolutely loved her wit and intelligence (lots of female stars on this show that he didn't like as they were a bit vacuous).

[@MRayanna]

Poor Paula was destroyed by the press for just being honest. During her divorce, she stated that Bob had tried to choke her, controlled who she could call and her money and that he had 6 affairs. Claire King would later brag that she was one of his affairs. Through all this the press just called Paula a liar!!! There was no MeToo movement back then to speak up on victim's behaves. Even sadder is when she had a suicide attempt and the press said she did it for attention. Can you imagine if someone said that about depression and suicide today?! Even the press saw how Bob was trying to make her homeless and broke and still took his side. It was so unfair.

[@SpookyElectric319]

‘All boys’. She had all girls, then lost Peaches. Tragic.

[@Alanoffer]

So sad when she died so young .

[@susanhenshaw1271]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@jacobpatrickpoulsen6608]

She was so beautiful and she had a charm about her. What I admire the most about her is that she was honest and never was afraid of speaking her mind.

[@stevebbuk]

No she was the embodiment of the 1980s at its worst.

[@davidrice3337]

@@stevebbuk what were you - the best ?

[@stevebbuk]

@@davidrice3337 Well I'm still here.

[@azillliasmith2734]

She was quite homely but she did get lot of attention from her behaviour and over the top outfits and bleached hair....otherwise no one would have looked at her twice.....

[@Sammy-mp9xn]

She was not beautiful lol

[@graemeaustralia6624]

I have to ask was this male reporter suffering from Parkinsons' disease. I noticed around the 1` minute mark of the clip him shaking with the papers in his hands badly then he puts his left-hand arm on the chair armrest.

[@Blondie101010100]

He was acting nervous or excited when she was dishing out the sexual innuendo.

[@wickydanrealbadmanthegangs7718]

Paula Yates was a brilliant mother and women, she fell in love and got her heart broken and never recovered. Michael's death triggered Paula's death and Peaches all those years later. So sad.

[@jillsmcfarland2001]

Tv educated ?

[@wickydanrealbadmanthegangs7718]

@@jillsmcfarland2001 weren't we all?

[@natewrites7803]

Read the book by her assistant-friend. It might change your opinion.

[@elizabethmcleod246]

@@natewrites7803 Excuse me. What is that booked titled? Thank you.

[@natewrites7803]

@@elizabethmcleod246 Paula, Micheal and Bob by Gerry Agar.

[@jingyun4323]

Ironically, she had all girls. She looked lovely here. So sad.

[@thethe6232]

She was like Princess Diana meets rock and roll ❤️

[@YellowB70]

Paula was so stunning and so bright. And so honest. Gay was always way ahead of his time with his timing and technique, you can tell Paula admired him

[@bellabell737]

The tripe we've been listening to for years and years🙄

[@antonellaleiva3607]

An amazing woman,indeed

[@choctaw6838]

I wish they would re-run old late late show series for people like myself.. Gay was a real professional. Happy days. Great video 👍

[@opencurtin]

If you look on KZbin there’s quite a lot of interviews by him on the late late show !

[@choctaw6838]

@@opencurtin thank you so much but many elderly haven't or dont understand modern technology and sadly live alone. God bless

[@opencurtin]

@@choctaw6838 I don’t think RTE have many of the tapes I read once they destroyed alit of stuff

[@choctaw6838]

@@opencurtin Jesus Christ 🤦 Thanks 👍

[@johnnyfeen1347]

@@opencurtin It mostly exists from late 70s onwards, very little from the 60s does.

[@lostcontrol1981]

Interesting that she only wanted boys - but ended up with 4 daughters!

[@paulseoighemcgee5772]

The lovely lovely Paula xxx

[@iersejounge]

Look at that big head. A man in woman's clothes id say!!

[@hgrunenwald]

Haha agreed

[@willmoore3790]

Beautiful and gone to soon bloody drugs

[@giuseppenapoli5371]

Loved ever man 😅

[@sportstrader2175]

Gay Byrne was a tremendous TV Man

[@colmgillane894]

R. I. P Paula we all love you and mis you very much..

[@WESSERPARAQUAT]

hughie green was a hunk .......

[@SA-ud9nf]

Wow she's stunning. Why did her looks and personality harden later? Maybe thinner or older I guess. She looks like a beautiful Till Tuesday but like a model like a beauty queen. She was also very feminine and sweet and graceful. Her mouth was very pretty when she smiled as she spoke. Totally. Matched with her teeth.

[@wickedwitchoftheeast88]

Paula was also taking anti depressants and they have side effects like weight gain and I daresay her drug taking probably didn't help

[@marjol3in]

Paula also had an eating disorder

[@SA-ud9nf]

@@marjol3in yes. That's probably it. Getting thin loses ones plump skin and vibrancy. So sad. People are so precious and gifted and alcohol and drugs and issues kill them.

[@UCanHaveHim]

By the age of 12 you're set. You're pretty much who you'll be at the core by this time. Before we meet someone we're already a whole being and no matter how some may want to change you, it won't happen.

[@WESSERPARAQUAT]

Paula Green it should have been , Hughie it's rumored only had his way with with Paula's mum Heller when she was out cold either through an intoxicant administered or from booze then he moved in must have been awful for her knowing she was created in such a terrible way :(

[@edmundpower1250]

Yes he was a real rat and then Paula ended up with one

[@WESSERPARAQUAT]

@@edmundpower1250 after giving him a BJ in a taxi

[@desertrose1226]

Her hair was absolutely stunning. She was a beauty when she was young, before drugs, before Michael. Her style is amazing here.

[@DistantCousin]

Good to see this, . There is SO little of Paula on youtube - especially for someone who was in the public eye for 20 years. Obviously her fans didn't have the foresight to upload their TV recordings to youtube, which without TV companies sharing their archives, is the only way we get to see such old stuff...

[@phil4977]

There is a reason for that. She was a waste of air. No appeal what’s so ever.

[@lilifive6719]

@@phil4977 Too true! The press called out her lies & manipulative behaviour a lot - even b4 she hooked up with Michael.

[@elianea.c.2294]

I just see q narcisist. Like all drugs addicted are

[@Bellasie1]

Spot on! I don't know whether I'm more terrified by her ways or the people admiring them in the comments... Being obnoxious has become a virtue.

[@nolies9071]

Awe ... she wanted to have some baby boys 😢

[@hgrunenwald]

She was so crass and had such a dark, empty energy about her. She seemed a bit on the mean side.

[@lilifive6719]

Oddest thing about her was that she made close friends with Michael's strange financial people Diamond & young, even making them Tiger's god parents. These were the people who told the family that he had died penniless, but failed to list any of his man properties in his estate. They also never revealed what was sold to pay off ALL of Paula's debts, including 2 million in legal fees and provided her enough to never have to work and to buy 2 homes. Strange.

[@CindyBarg]

It's obvious when you see Colin Diamond talk, he puts Paula on a pedestal.

[@jenschm6320]

@@lilifive6719 😲

[@frannieo6128]

This could have been a great interview - pity the interviewer is an absolute tube.

[@paulinehogan1488]

Loved her!

[@user-bf6zy5lh2e]

She looks a little like Meg Ryan. Her smile and eyes.

[@SA-ud9nf]

It's amazing how I look stunning she almost looks like till Tuesday I just as beautiful. Her face was pourtt and her hair was like the Marilyn Monroe bleach blonde color and so full and wispy. Then later she looked thinner and fra8l, and bony. No life in her face. It's like a big transformation. I wonder if drug did that. I know she was younger here but still it wasn't that long ago that she was transformed after that.

[@lolawie3736]

What are you talking about, twice? Ofcourse she aged between 1982 and the mid and the late nineties. You loose volume in your face. Still looked pretty great for her age and after all the trauma.

[@Amy-466]

I think it is called natural aging. How old are you?

[@epenies]

She looks and sounds very psychologically immature

[@regalegos1221]

Paula was a groupie who left school at 15 because her home life was so awful, that she felt running off to be a pop princess was better. She was groomed by the industry and was talentless, but Bob was desperate to be with someone gorgeous and it leveraged him to heights he would never have achieved. Paula and Bob did what Hollywood and the music industry do today, they fake marriages and relationships for the whole illusion in order to make money and keep the media happy. In the end the truth rises, and something has to give. Paula and Bob were desperately unhappy, he was a big mouthed unkempt disasterous street urchin, and she was a desperate fame seeking bimbo. Together they made a niche in a time when notoriaty was favourable. They met at the right time for the wrong reason and under the wrong circumstances and sadly, their children all paid the price for their egos and choices. I like Paula and I thought she was refreshingly honest but she tried to be a starlet and a charismatic icon however, she didn't quite have that quality at her core to carry it off like so many beauties of the past have. She tried so hard to fit in and portray herself as virginal and edgy but realised you can't be both. Towards her late thirties and after losing Hutchinson, I think she became more humble and down to earth, more of her true persona was revealed which is ironic, considering she died only three years after him before finding herself emotionally. It is a tragedy in its own right, however, Paula was not a victim, she forged a path for herself at a very young age knowing she was probably going to get burned, but continued anyway. She was reckless and driven by ego, lust and desire. There is no doubt in my mind Paula used Bob as a platform to propel herself to another level. Sadly the only thing that happens there, is karma catches you out in the end because it realises youre an imposter on that part of life's stage. Paula was probably a really nice person deep down, but her intentions were not authentic. She paid the ultimate price in the end by sacrificing so much of her truth and adopting a false life because she wanted it all. In the end ended she up with nothing. Bob I'm sure, regrets stopping Paula from being happy with Michael. Michael was too complex and to much of a free spirit to be contained by either of them. This is the so of tragedy that happens when you mess with the natural laws of life and think your way is the only way; clearly this whole family suffered the consequences and full fate of fame.

[@DeepScreenAnalysis]

You are wrong. Paula had star charisma. Moreso than Bob.

[@camdenroad44]

@@DeepScreenAnalysis Paula was a genius wit, her real sex appeal

[@yutehube4468]

" They met at the right time for the wrong reason and under the wrong circumstances" what are you, a rival columnist or something. It was a cold dark night, rain lashed the windows, a note appeared under my door... get tae fk you clown!

[@adrianc1264]

'Paula was not a victim' she was almost certainly sleeping with senior execs when she was still a kid, the BBC and light entertainment industry was notoriously full of p.aed.ophiles and sleeze bags at that time. She then ended up with disgusting hypocrite geldof who she grew to hate once she knew him. Victim at both ends I'd say. But, she was vacuous and ambitious and great beauty for a short while so brought it on herself to some extent

[@whenthemorningstarssangtogxrxs]

I cannot believe there are people like you in the world.

[@redkop510]

Should have stuck to her marriage and looking after her kids instead of having affairs...she might have still been alive now.

[@MRayanna]

What marriage? it was falling apart for years.

[@redkop510]

@@MRayanna no excuse to go and shag about...she had kids🤔

[@e.y.e4038]

Bob was cheating her all the time.

[@DeepScreenAnalysis]

She always looked after her kids, what are you talking about? She fought Bob tooth and nail for custody of her girls.

[@Crosshatch1212]

Realy liked her .

[@jimbobjimjim6500]

OMG What a woman she was.

[@sunshineravens]

She is just mesmerising to watch. ❤️😥

[@kathleendobens6648]

She was so smart and stunning.

[@virginiaviola5097]

Oh dear, she had 4 girls…

[@elizabethmcleod246]

The snail story reminds me of Vivian in, ‘Pretty Woman’.

[@Fatfrogsrock]

She's dead now, that's sad imo

[@perky26hughes]

She's not is she?

[@GinaSigillito]

She was so fabulous. One of my idols when I was young.

[@easkeybikes1966]

I had a crush on her from the moment I first saw her back in 1980-something.

[@josephharley9448]

A very complicated lady with no forward conclusion

[@oliviamartini9700]

Awkward silences from the audience at the punch lines. Bob's band called her "the limpet". She is very cute here, but never stood a chance with the moral degenerates who spawned/raised her. Doubt she could have dealt with ageing, either. Australian 60 Minutes does a moving interview with her in her final year.

[@desertrose1226]

She started to look old at an early age due to drugs - shame as she was exceptionally pretty

[@azillliasmith2734]

@@desertrose1226 She was always quite homely she had like most the freshness of youth when she was young that is. She garnered the attention she needed and didn't get as a child by doing and saying outrages things bleached hair loud clothes provocative often overly (and embarrassing) sexual behaviour she always came over as false and not naturally "sexy" in any way very contrived. So sad.

[@opencurtin]

I think the third thing that made Terry Wogan sexy was he was well endowed but wasn’t able to say it lol 😂

[@wendyjones1422]

She was such a natural pretty woman RIP

[@azillliasmith2734]

Think she had Brest implants....

[@viewerabundzu6887]

gorgeous woman she was

[@Diana-yk7sp]

I think she would be a blast to hang out with. Love her charm and vintage style. So sad that she died so young. I think the public was horrific to her after MH's death.

[@plj2084]

It's Ironic on here 'where she said she wanted to have all Baby Boys)or she'd send them back)As it turned out she had 4 Girls 😊👍👶💞👶💞👶💞👶💞

[@its_Emilywoo]

She was charming ❤

[@deerheart87]

She was smart ❤

[@janetclaireSays]

And she had all girls.