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Yates became a fan of The Boomtown Rats and their lead singer, Bob Geldof, with whom she became involved and who fathered her first three daughters.

She posed naked for Penthouse in 1979, just before she became a music journalist, writing a column called " Natural Blonde " in the Record Mirror.

She first came to prominence in the 1980s, as co-presenter ( with Jools Holland ) of the Channel 4 pop music programme The Tube.

She also appeared alongside friend Jennifer Saunders in 1987 for a spoof ' mockumentary ' on Bananarama.