Oh, Stop All this Canoodling! I'm trying to Eat my Pop Tart!

Paula Yates and Micheal Hutchence on the Big Breakfast

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHI_G1QFfIs

A classic moment from the show, which in hindsight, has a sense of the bittersweet and tragic. This is from Channel 4's "Big Breakfast", that really did break new ground as regards to weekday mornings, giving a more fun and sometimes surreal edge compared to mugs and woolly jumpers, and middle class P's and Q's that were a feature on TV-AM (ITV really) and the BBC's comparative shows.

Can Paula Yates be in any more head-over-heels love with "INXS" singer Michael Hutchence, with that long-winded introduction? This was a slighty edgy segment for morning TV, where Yates was a seconadary presenter on the show and starred in an interview section called "In Bed With...". This is from 1994, regarded as the "golden age" of the show when Chris Evans and Gaby Roslin were the main presenters. Yates established a relationship with hutchence, although being married to musician and charity fund-raising machine Bob Geldolf. It's rumoured that it was in this moment, was when it began, however, Wikipedia claims it started some time before. They seem helluva cosy in support to that.

Michael Hutchence was the lead singer of Australian rock-pop band "INXS". They had success in the 80s, with a range of hits including "Need You Tonight", "Devil Inside" and "New Sensation". Hutchence had met Yates back in the 80s, when she presented "The Tube". The tragedy is, that to complete surprise, Hutchence was found dead in an hotel room, hanging himself with a belt. Depression and drugs were the main factor over the strained relationship with Yates, the pressure to get married and hassle with Geldof's fight for custody of Paula's daughter Tiger Lilly. However the famed cause of death was that Hutchence had died accidentally, according to many from Erotic asphyxiation. This is attempting to cut off oxygen from the brain to increase sexual arousal in the person.

What was even more tragic, is that Paula Yates was never really the same after Hutchence's death, who she clearly loved. No longer appearing as the quirky and bubbly personality we once saw, she appeared emotionally drained up to her tragic death. She continued to look after her daughter, until her own death, from drugs too, but this was accidental. A sad demise to one of Britain's most natural female presenters.