![]() ![]() 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. Her once unstoppable QB has been stuck in mud the last 6 weeks (averaging 15.Born on 24 April 1959 in Colwyn Bay, Wales, to English parents, Yates was brought up in a show business family. Does Manager O’Brien feel lucky? Because ESPN projects her as an 8-point underdog. He’s also armed with the most dangerous bazooka of all: A record-setting TE who is a virtual lock for 20 points (9 times already this season). Every one of his skill players is projected for over 12 points, and worst of all for EO, he’s got a fancy newly refined weapon dangling out of that holster: A QB who just ripped off 37.82pts and has the entire league on notice. Manager O’Brien has been taking names all season, but to be the best, you’ve got to beat the best! And bursting through those saloon doors is ESPN’s preeminent fantasy mind: Field Yates… and he’s looking for a fight (Cue the spittle and the flick of the cowboy hat). ![]()
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