Pete Doherty
- Profession: Singer
- Place/Date of Birth: Hexham, England, 12 March 2020
- Associated with: Kate Moss
Pete has promised he will kick heroin for good - Aug 21, 2020
Pete Doherty has promised lover Kate Moss he will kick heroin for good to be with her. The Babyshambles frontman - who is due to appear in court on seven charges of drugs possession later this week - insists he is determined to beat his addictions for his supermodel girlfriend.
He said: "It took me a while to realise but there are people who care about me so I’m doing it for them. No. I’m doing it for a special person who I want in my life forever, Kate."
To help him stay off heroin, the troubled rocker has been fitted with a special implant, placed under the skin on his arm, to prevent him from craving the Class A drug. He told Scotland’s Daily Record newspaper: "I’m off the brown. Look, I’ve got this implant now."
Pete and Kate rekindled their on/off romance earlier this month and engagement rumours were sparked after the catwalk queen was spotted with a jewel-encrusted band on her ring finger. However, the couple insist they are not engaged and have no plans to tie the knot anytime soon.
Pete is facing jail - Aug 18, 2020
Pete Doherty is facing jail after he was charged with seven counts of drugs possession. The Babyshambles frontman - who has been arrested on three occasions for possession of heroin, cocaine and cannabis - was charged at an East London police station yesterday (17.08.06).
The 27-year-old musician - who recently rekindled his relationship with supermodel Kate Moss - was first arrested in April and then again in August. Doherty has endured a lengthy battle with drugs and has unsuccessfully tried to kick his addictions several times. In June, he checked himself into a rehabilitation clinic in Portugal, after he was detained in Barcelona airport for allegedly taking heroin on the plane.
Doherty appeared optimistic when he recently announced his plans to marry Kate once he was "clean". Engagement rumours were sparked last week after Kate was spotted wearing an expensive diamond ring on her engagement finger.
Authorities refused to let Pete fly - Aug 15, 2020
Pete Doherty missed a concert in Ibiza last night (14.08.06) after authorities refused to let him fly because he looked drunk in his passport pictures. Pete was due to fly out to play at the Ibiza Rocks festival with his band Babyshambles but discovered he had lost his passport.
He applied for a temporary one but he looked half asleep in the pictures he sent so it was refused. A source said: "Pete’s head was leaning forward. It looked like he was nodding off so the photos were rejected." The night before he was due to fly out (12.08.06) Pete put on a private show in a North London pub, where he was joined in a duet by supermodel girlfriend Kate Moss.
An onlooker told The Sun newspaper "Kate was sat on the bar wearing a tuxedo, frilly knickers and a hat. She’d get on stage, dance, then sit down again. It was like a burlesque routine where she would wiggle her bum at the audience." The couple smoked and drank Guinness and were cheered on throughout by the model’s friends Sadie Frost, actress Davinia Taylor and Pogues singer Shane McGowan.
Pete and Kate closed the set by kissing in front of the audience before leaving hand-in-hand. On Friday night (11.08.06) Kate was seen wearing a diamond ring on her engagement finger fuelling rumours the couple are engaged.
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A long and drawn out battle with drugs, an especially fiery relationship with Croydon’s favourite daughter and any number of bust ups and arrests has made the singer/songwriter one of Britain’s most recognisable faces (all be it a screwed up, sweaty zombie face).
Born on March 12 1979 in Hexham, Northumberland and living at various times in Liverpool, Shepherd’s Bush, Coventry, Dorset, Cyprus and Russia, Pete Doherty first came to the public’s attention as one half of the singing songwriting duo who fronted Britain’s must see band, The Libertines, who kick started the country’s new garage rock scene in 2002/03.
Debauched backstage shenanigans and frantic but brilliant shows saw The Libertines hit the headlines time and time again and their debut album, Up The Bracket, shot up the charts. However, the band’s success was to be short lived and numerous problems, between Pete and the rest of the band (specifically with best friend Carl Barat - the pair met when they became flatmates in Stoke Newington) saw them part ways but not before Pete hit the headlines for drink and drug problems which caused him to steal from his bandmates to feed his habit.
It was around this time that Lisa Moorish gave birth to Doherty’s child, Astile but, rather than settling down Pete carried on taking heroin, selling his ’My Drug Hell’ stories to any and every tabloid to pay for his out of control habit before being put in to several rehab clinics (including a Thai monastery), none of which have changed his ways.
Nonetheless he has managed to forge a career on his own, first working with Wolfman on For Lovers then forming Babyshambles, initially as a way to make money for.you guessed it! Now trying to get clean with the aid of Naltroxene after an arrest for assault, which resulted in some jail time as well as a curfew and constant supervision Pete is reportedly set to marry supermodel Kate Moss.
November 2007