Paula Yates Quotes

To this day the Reform Club still shudders at the memory of when they agreed to rent out the premises for a fashion shoot for a few hours in 1978. The following year, they were rather astonished to find that a string of nude photographs featuring a nineteen-year-old Paula Yates made the front cover, centrefold and main feature of Penthouse magazine, all making extensive use of the Reform Club’s furniture, architecture and statues.

Bob Geldof’s autobiography, when he talked about his late wife Paula Yates: “In every relationship, there is one person who loves, and one who is loved.” At the time, I just accepted it: I believed it to be true. I thought it a fact. Perhaps that is the way of love? A yin and a yang, a nut and a bolt, a lover and a loved. I wondered, Which would I be? Which would be best? Which one would work for me? I