More from the file marked 'what a shambles'. Firstly Pete Doherty has given us another excuse for his shoddy performance at Saturday's Live 8 concert. Pete originally said nerves made him muck up his duet with Elton John on Saturday. Then he said a tiff with girlfriend Kate Moss before going on stage affected his performance. Now he says it was all Peaches Geldof's fault.
According to the Mirror, Pete says: "I wasn't lost for words and I wasn't out of it on drugs. Just before I went on stage Peaches squeezed my bum hard and whispered something rather suggestive to me. It left me in such shock I didn't know where I was. Bob Geldof has organised this amazing global event, I was facing 210,000 people, the cameras are rolling, and fucking Elton John is dueting with me. And Bob's daughter has secretly made a pass at me. It's all I can think about. It did my head in. I didn't think Bob would be very happy."
But no such glamorous excuses so far for why Babyshambles had to pull out of their support slot at Oasis' Southampton gig last night. A source has told NME that Doherty was stuck in France and couldn't make it to Southampton's Rose Bowl on time. Quite what he was doing in France is anyone's guess, though to be fair, I guess there would be few Frenchmen keen to help a late running British pop star yesterday given the way the Olympics vote went.