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==Personal life==
Green met [[Montreal]] socialite Claire Wilson on a cruise liner in the mid-1930s when both were still teenagers. They married in 1942 and settled in Montreal, before moving to London in 1947. The couple had two children, son Christopher Green and daughter Linda Plentl (née Green). The family lived in a fifth-floor flat in [[Baker Street]], London, although with Green's numerous affairs and self-obsession, including taking luxury holidays and spending Christmas often on his own, his children defined it as "highly dysfunctional".{{citation needed|date=December 2018}}
The Greens separated in 1961 and filed for [[divorce]] in March 1975 after Green started an affair with Gwen Claremont, the sister of an earlier lover, Pat. Later that year, Claire married ''[[Upstairs, Downstairs (1971 TV series)|Upstairs, Downstairs]]'' actor [[David Langton]]. After separation from his wife, Green's drinking became more compulsive, while his affairs continued even during the height of his fame presenting ''Opportunity Knocks''. Journalist [[Noel Botham]] approached Green to expose him, but Green countered with a lawsuit threat. Eventually the two became friends.{{citation needed|date=September 2018}}
Botham then became key in two stories in Green's life. Green grew frustrated by Yorkshire Television's failure to remove programme producer [[Jess Yates]] when he requested this to be done and so leaked to Botham the stories of Yates' affair with the young actress Anita Kay, whose story, published in the ''[[News of the World]]'', destroyed Yates's career. In May 1997, shortly after Green's death, Botham wrote the exposé story, also in the ''News of the World'', of Green being the biological father of Jess Yates's daughter, TV presenter [[Paula Yates]],<ref>{{cite news |title='I thought I was at the darkest point – now this' |date=13 December 1997 |url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/39288.stm |access-date=3 February 2008 |work=BBC News}}</ref> something she read when the [[Tabloid journalism|tabloids]] printed the story, and which was later confirmed with a DNA test result in December 1997. Through his daughter Linda, Green had four granddaughters, Delia, Christina, Stephanie and Marina. Through his daughter Paula, Green had four other granddaughters whom he never knew: Fifi, [[Peaches Geldof|Peaches]] and [[Pixie Geldof]], fathered by [[Bob Geldof]], and Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily Hutchence, fathered by [[Michael Hutchence]]. Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily Hutchence was legally adopted by Bob Geldof in 2007.<ref>{{Cite news |first=Bella |last=Brennan |title= Michael Hutchence's daughter Tiger Lily is all grown up and living the quiet life |url= https://www.nowtolove.com.au/celebrity/celeb-news/who-is-tiger-lily-hutchence-51460 |date= 5 January 2023 |website= nowtolove.com.au}}</ref>▼
▲Botham then became key in two stories in Green's life. Green grew frustrated by [[Yorkshire Television]]'s failure to remove programme producer [[Jess Yates]] when he requested this to be done and so leaked to Botham the stories of Yates' affair with the young actress Anita Kay, whose story, published in the ''[[News of the World]]'', destroyed Yates'
Green's final partner for the last five years of his life was Christina Sharples, wife of his long-term musical director [[Robert Sharples |Bob Sharples]], who had died in 1987.<ref name=indy/>▼
Through his daughter Linda, Green had four granddaughters, Delia, Christina, Stephanie and Marina. Through his daughter Paula, Green had four other granddaughters whom he never knew: Fifi, [[Peaches Geldof|Peaches]] and [[Pixie Geldof]], fathered by [[Bob Geldof]], and Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily Hutchence, fathered by [[Michael Hutchence]]. Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily Hutchence was legally adopted by Bob Geldof in 2007.<ref>{{Cite news |first=Bella |last=Brennan |title= Michael Hutchence's daughter Tiger Lily is all grown up and living the quiet life |url= https://www.nowtolove.com.au/celebrity/celeb-news/who-is-tiger-lily-hutchence-51460 |date= 5 January 2023 |website= nowtolove.com.au}}</ref>
▲Green's final partner for the last five years of his life was Christina Sharples,
==Death==
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