Editing Paula Yates (section)

==Early life==
Born on 24 April 1959<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1355814/Paula-Yates.html "Paula Yates"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160227150927/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1355814/Paula-Yates.html |date=27 February 2016 }}. ''The Telegraph'' (18 September 2000). Retrieved 3 October 2020.</ref> in [[Colwyn Bay]], Wales, to English parents, Yates was brought up in a show business family. Her mother was Elaine Smith (whose stage name was Heller Toren, and who later wrote under the pseudonym Helene Thornton). Up until 1997, Yates believed her biological father to be [[Jess Yates]], who hosted the [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] religious programme ''[[Stars on Sunday (TV series)|Stars on Sunday]]''. A [[DNA test]] in that year revealed that her biological father was game show host [[Hughie Green]].<ref>{{cite news |title='I thought I was at the darkest point in my life – now this'|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/39288.stm |newspaper=BBC News |date= 13 December 1997|accessdate=19 January 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Branigan|first=Tania|title= TV star killed by heroin 'binge'|url= https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/nov/09/drugsandalcohol.taniabranigan|newspaper=The Guardian |date= 9 November 2000|accessdate=19 January 2023}}</ref>

Yates described her childhood as lonely and isolated; her mother, she claimed, was absent for much of her upbringing.<ref name=baby/> She attended a village primary school, [[Rydal Penrhos|Penrhos College]], and [[Ysgol Aberconwy]]. The Yates family ran the Deganwy Castle Hotel for a time,<ref>{{cite web|work=BBC News|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/north_west/8444081.stm|title=Historic Deganwy Castle hotel closes its doors|date=11 January 2010|access-date=8 April 2018|archive-date=9 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180409112604/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/north_west/8444081.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> before moving to a house near Conwy. After the break-up of her parents' marriage in 1975, Yates lived mostly with her mother despite having a closer relationship with Jess, and also had periods in [[Malta]] and [[Mallorca]] where she was a pupil at Bellver International College, before returning to Britain.{{cn|date=December 2022}}