Tiger Lily Hutchence has ‘no interest’ in becoming a famous singer

She may have born into showbusiness royalty, but Tiger Lily Hutchence has no interest in the celebrity spotlight.

Tiger, the 26-year-old daughter of late INXS frontman Michael Hutchence and British TV presenter Paula Yates, lives a low-key life in Perth, Western Australia, and is rarely photographed in public.

She briefly resurfaced last year to release her debut album, titled Tragic Tiger’s Sad Meltdown – no doubt a reference to her life as a tabloid fixture – but insiders say she won’t be going on tour anytime soon.

‘She has no interest in becoming famous like her parents were, and even though she’s a singer, it’s more a hobby for her than a career,’ an insider told Woman’s Day.

‘The world is full of regular reminders that she would never want any part in Michael or Paula’s world.’

In 1997, when Tiger was just 16 months old, her father Michael killed himself in a Sydney hotel room. 

Her mother Paula was found dead at her home in London less than three years later.

Tiger was last seen performing on stage Perth at two local venues in 2020, where she sang and played piano with a guitarist. 

Tiger (pictured with a friend)  briefly resurfaced last year after releasing her debut album, titled Tragic Tiger’s Sad Meltdown, but insiders say she wont’ be going on tour any time soon

‘She has no interest in becoming famous like her parents were, and even though she’s a singer, it’s more a hobby for her than a career,’ an insider told Woman’s Day magazine on Tuesday

According to a report in The West Australian, the budding singer wowed the crowd with ‘half a dozen melancholic alt-folk’ tracks.

Tiger moved to Fremantle to be with Nick, the frontman of psychedelic rock band Pond and a former member of Tame Impala, after they began dating in 2017. 

Her life is a paradise of surfing, meditation and yoga – a world away from the gritty celebrity scene enjoyed by her late parents. 

This week, Paula’s legacy was once again in the spotlight in the wake of a two-part documentary that aired on UK’s Channel 4. 

In 1997, when Tiger Lily was just 16 months old, her father killed himself in a Sydney hotel room. Pictured with her father as a baby 

The documentary would have opened old wounds for Tiger, who was just four, and alone in the house with her mother, when she found Paula dead. 

Tiger raised the alarm when a friend of Paula’s phoned, and she told her that she ‘couldn’t wake Mummy’.

Following her parents’ death, Tiger was raised by her mother’s ex-husband, Sir Bob Geldof, alongside her three older half-sisters, Fifi, Peaches and Pixie.

Tragically, Peaches died of a heroin overdose in 2014.

Her mother, Paula Yates (left), was found dead at her home in London less than three years later. The family are pictured in Sydney in 1996