Peaches Geldof

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Birth Date:
13.03.1989
Death date:
07.04.2014
Length of life:
25
Days since birth:
12800
Years since birth:
35
Days since death:
3644
Years since death:
9
Person's maiden name:
Peaches Honeyblossom Geldof
Categories:
Journalist, Model, Telecaster, TV announcer
Nationality:
 english
Cemetery:
Set cemetery

Peaches Honeyblossom Geldof (13 March 1989 – 7 April 2014) was an English journalist, television presenter and model.

Early life

Geldof was born in London on 13 March 1989 the second daughter of Bob Geldof and Paula Yates and the granddaughter of Hughie Green. Her sisters are Fifi Trixibelle Geldof and Pixie Geldof. She also had a younger half-sister, Tiger Lily Hutchence Geldof.

She grew up in Chelsea, London, and Faversham, Kent, and was educated at Queen's College, London. After moving out of her father's house at eighteen, Peaches rented a flat in Islington, North London. She completed her A-Levels and was offered a place to read English at Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London but deferred it to move to New York with then-husband, Max Drummey.

Career

Geldof wrote a magazine column for the UK edition of Elle Girl, starting with its April 2004 issue and continuing until the magazine folded in October 2005. From age 14–17 she wrote a weekly socio-political column for The Daily Telegraph, and wrote numerous articles for The Guardian.

Geldof wrote and presented her own documentary TV programme, Peaches Geldof: Teenage Mind in 2005, which was followed up with Peaches Geldof: Teen America, which aired on Sky One in the UK on 1 March 2006. In 2006, Geldof was placed at number seven in the Tatler's list of Top Ten Fashion Icons for the year, the youngest person on the list. In 2007, readers of FHM voted her the 53rd sexiest woman in the world.

In September 2007 Geldof made her catwalk début modelling for PPQ atLondon Fashion Week. She was also announced as the face of the Australian fashion line Dotti. Premiering on 19 October 2008 wasPeaches: Disappear Here, a MTV One reality show in which Peaches founds a new youth-orientated magazine.

In 2009 Peaches was signed to a six-figure modelling deal to become the face of the Miss Ultimo collection. Michelle Mone, the head of Ultimo underwear said at the time "Peaches was the perfect choice for this campaign. She's young, edgy with lashings of style". The collection was launched at the Debenhams department store in Oxford Street in May 2009. Peaches was subsequently dropped from the Ultimo brand in March 2010 after nude pictures and allegations of drug use were posted on the Internet and published in the media. Geldof vehemently denied the claims and said, "I am disappointed that Ultimo has decided not to extend my contract based on a wildly exaggerated account of a night in Los Angeles five months ago." Mone said that "as a brand that targets young women, we feel it is impossible for Peaches to continue."

In 2011 Geldof presented a six-part series on ITV2 called OMG! with Peaches Geldof, a magazine-format chat and guest show with audience participation.

Personal life

On 5 August 2008, Geldof married Max Drummey, an American musician from the band Chester French, at the Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas. The couple announced on 7 February 2009 that they had amicably decided to end their marriage. Drummey filed for divorce on 18 April 2011 in Los Angeles, citing irreconcilable differences.

Geldof married Thomas Cohen, lead singer of the South East London band S.C.U.M on 8 September 2012 at the same church in Davington where her parents married 26 years earlier, and also where her mother's funeral was held in 2000. Geldof had two sons with Cohen: Astala Dylan Willow (born 21 April 2012) and Phaedra Bloom Forever (born 24 April 2013, which would have been the 54th birthday of Geldof's mother Paula Yates).

In 2009, when interviewed by Fearne Cotton for the documentary show When Fearne Met Peaches Geldof on ITV2, Geldof professed to being a Scientologist. In 2013, a tabloid alleged that she had converted to Judaism, the religion of her second husband.

In a 2013 interview with Elle magazine, Geldof explained how difficult the process of coming to terms with her mother's death was:

I remember the day my mother died, and it's still hard to talk about it. I just blocked it out. I went to school the next day because my father's mentality was 'keep calm and carry on'. So we all went to school and tried to act as if nothing had happened. But it had happened. I didn't grieve. I didn't cry at her funeral. I couldn't express anything because I was just numb to it all. I didn't start grieving for my mother properly until I was maybe 16.

The final post to Geldof's Twitter account, on 6 April, included a photograph her as a baby in her mother's arms. She once described herself as "never that wild."

Death

Geldof died aged 25 at her home in Wrotham, Kent and, at the time of the confirmation, the Kent Police statement read: "At this stage, the death is being treated as unexplained and sudden". Bob Geldof said in a statement, "We are beyond pain. She was the wildest, funniest, cleverest, wittiest and the most bonkers of all of us. We loved her and will cherish her forever."

 

Several celebrities including TV host Phillip Schofield, singer Lily Allen, and actress Helen Flanagan paid tribute to Geldof.

Source: wikipedia.org

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        Relation nameRelation typeBirth DateDeath dateDescription
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        Paula YatesMother24.04.195917.09.2000
        2Michael HutchenceMichael HutchenceFoster father22.01.196022.11.1997

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