Hughie and Paula: The Tangled Lives of Hughie Green and Paula

Hughie and Paula: The Tangled Lives of Hughie Green and Paula Yates

In 1997, controversial TV star Paula Yates discovered that her true father was not, as she had believed, disgraced television personality Jess Yates, but the man who had destroyed his career, Hughie Green. Devastated, she approached Green s son, Christopher, in an effort to unravel the mystery behind her two fathers . Hughie Green was a huge showbiz figure and probably the first star of British TV. His show, Opportunity Knocks, launched the career of Les Dawson and many others. Christopher Green s investigation, which forms the heart of this extraordinary book, uncovered many of the dark and deeply buried secrets that Paula Yates, tragically, never lived to hear. About the Author Christopher Green, the only legitimate son of Hughie Green, graduated from an elite military boarding school in Lennoxville, Quebec, and gained a BSc from McGill University, Montreal. Carol Clerk is the former News Editor of melody Maker. She contributes to various music publications, particularly Uncut and Classic Rock, and has previously co-written Inside The Firm with Tony Lambrianou, Getting It Straight with Freddie Foreman and Tony Lambrianou, and How Black Was Our Sabbath by Dave Tangye and Graham Wright. She has recently produced her own books about Madonna and Ozzy Osbourne.

Hughie and Paula: The Tangled Lives of Hughie Green and Paula Yates