A new documentary reveals how the tabloids turned on their one-time darling – for daring to be a woman who didn’t shun the spotlight, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
A new documentary reveals how the tabloids turned on their one-time darling – for daring to be a woman who didn’t shun the spotlighthere’s a story about Paula Yates bumping into Diana, Princess of Wales that Yates’s friend Belinda Brewin recollects in thethis week. The People’s Princess turned to Little Miss Hypocrite and said: “I love it when you’re on the front page of the papers because it means I’ve got the day off.
Paula Yates was the tabloids’ darling for a while, when her on-screen flirtatiousness was neutralised by its distinctive Carry On Interviewing vibe and the fact of her rockstar boyfriend, Bob Geldof, of whom surely no woman could ever tire. When she had an affair with Terence Trent D’Arby in the late 80s , the disapprobation from the press felt neurotic, as if a collective ego wound had been inflicted.
It was only when Yates left Geldof for Hutchence in 1995 that Fleet Street turned remorselessly against her, and the battle plan was indistinguishable from the treatment you would see, say, the Duchess of Sussex get today, or some other poor schmuck tomorrow. There was a news-gathering wing, the 60-plus photographers camped permanently outside her house, rendering normal life, let alone normal parenting, impossible. These are the neutrals, the white helmets of the operation.
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