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Pete Doherty left with white streak in his hair after biting through Christmas lights wire

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Updated 16:16 16 Dec 2022 GMTPublished 15:34 16 Dec 2022 GMT

Pete Doherty left with white streak in his hair after biting through Christmas lights wire

The musician gave himself a shock - quite literally.

Jake Massey

Jake Massey

Pete Doherty is known for his shocking behaviour, but he took it to another level when he actually electrocuted himself.

The musician said he managed to change the colour of his hair after he bit through the wire of some Christmas lights.

Watch him recount the tale here:

The 43-year-old recounted his innovative hair dyeing episode on Never Mind the Xmas Buzzcocks.

According to The Sun, he said: "When I was a toddler I remembered I chewed through a wire from Christmas lights.

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"I kind of spontaneously combusted or something and I had to go to the hospital.

"When I came back I had a big white streak in my hair."

And while they say lightning doesn't strike twice, electrocutions most definitely can.

The frontman said: "Four years later I electrocuted myself under the fridge as well, but that was New Years I think."

He said he had to go to hospital after the shock.
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Noel Fielding also recalled his first encounter with Doherty on the show - and it was predictably memorable.

"Before I ever met Pete, I was a big fan and I think 'Up The Bracket' had come out and I loved that album, and I was in a hotel room with a bunch of people partying and the door went," the comedian recounted.

"Someone went, 'It's Pete Doherty', and I was like, 'Let me answer it', because I was a bit starstruck.

"And I opened the door and there was no one there. There was a top hat on the floor with 12 kittens in it. That's a true story."

Doherty confirmed the anecdote was indeed true, though the memory is unsurprisingly hazy.

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"Something's emerging from the past, I can see a hotel corridor and kittens but nothing else," he said.

Asked by host Greg Davies where he'd got the kittens from, Doherty replied: "From a cat - where d'you think?"

Touche.

And if you thought that was more than enough bizarre stories for one show, Doherty wasn't done yet.

The man has plenty of tales to tell.
Michelle Roberts / Alamy Stock Photo

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He said that he and Libertines bandmate Carl Barât once set up a business together, working as private detectives and charging £6 an hour.

"We took it very seriously," he said. "We watched The Maltese Falcon and that was it.

"I thought it was going to be saucy secretaries and neon lights, and silhouettes on the office door, but no, it was just blokes wanting their wives followed around."

Brilliant.

Featured Image Credit: Sky

Topics: Celebrity, Music

Jake Massey
Jake Massey

Jake Massey is a journalist at LADbible. He graduated from Newcastle University, where he learnt a bit about media and a lot about living without heating. After spending a few years in Australia and New Zealand, Jake secured a role at an obscure radio station in Norwich, inadvertently becoming a real-life Alan Partridge in the process. From there, Jake became a reporter at the Eastern Daily Press. Jake enjoys playing football, listening to music and writing about himself in the third person.

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